1. ___        Which of the following languages features vowel harmony?

1. Uzbek (Turkic)
2. Kyrgyz (Turkic)
3. Tagalog (Austronesian)
4. Arabic (Semitic)

2. ___        Which of these lists contains a wrong member?

1. Indo-European languages: French, Lithuanian, Albanian, Farsi
2. Indo-European languages: Romanian, Polish, German, Hungarian
3. Austronesian languages: Indonesian, Tagalog, Malagasy, Hawaiian
4. Finno-Ugric languages: Finnish, Karelian, Estonian, Saami

3. ___        Languages of the Caucasus are known for which linguistic phenomenon?

1. postposed articles
2. tonal systems
3. rich consonant inventories
4. extensive use of reduplication

4. ___        Which of the following statements are false?

1. Many languages, including most Austronesian languages, Chinese, Japanese feature either a lateral or a rhotic sound, but not both.
2. In many languages from both Uralic and Turkic families, vowels assimilate to each other over intervening consonants.
3. Click sounds must have spread from Bantu languages such as Zulu to Khoisan languages such as !Xoo.
4. Retroflex consonants must have spread from Dravidian languages such as Malayalam to Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi.

5. ___        Which of the following language groupings do not form an accepted, reliably proven language family?

1. Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages
2. Semitic, Berber, and Cushitic languages
3. Romance, Germanic, and Iranian languages
4. Finnic, Ugric, and Samoyedic languages

6. ___     Which of the following neighboring languages are written using the same script?

1. Hebrew and Arabic
2. Armenian and Georgian
3. Russian and Polish
4. Hungarian and Slovak

7. ___     Which alphabet was invented by St. Cyril and his brother Methodius?

1. Runic
2. Arameic
3. Glagolitic
4. Devanagari