1. Two languages, A and B, are said to be mutually intelligible if a native speaker of A can understand most of what a native speaker of B says, and vice versa, with no special training outside of their native language. For instance, Spanish and Portuguese are considered to be mutually intelligible, but Italian and German are not. Which of these languages is mutually intelligible with English? Frisian None of the above; there is no language that is mutually intelligible with English German Dutch

2. English is a member of the language family known as Germanic languages. What is the closest linguistic relative to modern English? German Frisian Danish Dutch

3. Which of the Indo-European languages below is still being learned as a native language in the 21st century? (It doesn't count if it is learned as a second language only.) Gothic Welsh Old Church Slavonic Cornish

4. Romany, the language of the Rom people or Gypsies, is most closely related to which of these modern languages? Punjabi Romanian Yiddish Russian

5. Finnish is not an Indo-European language. True or False? True False

6. Hungarian is related most closely to which of the following languages? Romanian Serbo-Croatian Ukrainian Estonian

7. Of the following Indo-European language families, which of the following has NO modern living descendant? Germanic Hellenic Anatolian Albanian

8. For the last 3 questions, I will give the name of a language group. Of the choices given, pick the language that does NOT belong in the group. Which of the following does NOT belong to the Germanic language group? Norwegian Icelandic Czech English

9. Which of the following does NOT belong to the Slavic language group? Kurdish Ukrainian Polish Russian

10. Which of the following languages does NOT belong to the Celtic language group? Manx Irish Gaelic Catalan Welsh