Questions 1 - 5
1. Which of the following linguistic features is found in ASL but not in English?
A. Possessive pronouns
B. Object-Verb agreement
C. Rhetorical questions
D. Subject-Verb-Object word order
B. Object-Verb agreement
6. Which of the following statements regarding Deaf culture and the Deaf community is NOT true?
A. Interpreters are a part of the Deaf community but not necessarily members of the Deaf culture.
B. A member of the core of the Deaf culture would be considered part of the Deaf community.
C. The Deaf core culture and the Deaf community share similar goals but not necessarily similar values and experiences.
D. Hearing interpreters who are not CODAs can become members of the core Deaf culture by the process of acculturation.
D. Hearing interpreters who are not CODAs can become members of the core Deaf culture by the process of acculturation.
11. The theory of interpretation as cultural and linguistic mediation includes all of the following EXCEPT
A. facilitating communication in the most effective way possible
B. determining source language meaning and intent and finding target language equivalents
C. recognizing the language diversity that exists within the deaf community
D. providing Deaf people with adequate lanaguage models
D. providing Deaf people with adequate language models
16. The primary reason hearing people have difficulty becoming fluent in ASL is that
A. ASL has become standardized only in recent years
B. The use of ASL is restricted to residential schools and Deaf clubs
C. ASL is not a written language
D. It is difficult to gain sufficient exposure to Deaf people using ASL
D. It is difficult to gain sufficient exposure to Deaf people susng ASL
21. Which of the following is the best cue that a Deaf audience has failed to comprehend a voice-to-sign interpretation?
A. Head nodding
B. Lack of facial expression
C. Confused copying of a sign
D. Yawning
C. Confused copying of a sign
2. From a cultural perspective, the core Deaf community is most appropriately thought of as a
A. Bilingual community
B. Disadvantaged and segregated group
C. Disabled group
D. Linguistic minority group
D. Linguistic minority group
7. When people adjust their language and the way they talk based on whom they are speaking to they are shifting
A. register
B. modality
C. meaning
D. intent
A. register
12. Which of the following organization has as its main objective the providing of information about hearing loss, communication, assistive listening devices, and communication strategies for oral Deaf persons?
A. SHHH
B. RID
C. NAD
D. ALDA
A. SHHH
17. Reasons for an African-American Deaf person using Southern Black signs include all of the following EXCEPT
A. He or she is a member of an African-American Deaf club whose events are rarely attended by people who are not African-American
B. He or she interacts mainly with other African-Americans who know Southern Black signs
C. He or she attended a residential school that was segregated
D. He or she attended a mainstreamed school with African-American instructors
D. He or she attended a mainstreamed school with African-American instructors
22. Public Law 94-142 mandates that, to the extent possible, Deaf children should be
A. educated in residential schools
B. educated in the least restrictive environment
C. placed in classes with an interpreter
D. placed in a mainstreamed environment
B. educated in the least restrictive environment
3. The setting in which it is LEAST likely that a Deaf person would be working as an interpreter is
A. At an international conference on sign language research
B. In settings where there are Deaf/Blind people in the audience
C. In a mainstream classroom
D. In a courtroom
C. In a mainstream classroom
8. One protection available to interpreters from malpractice suits resulting from misinterpretations that cause harm is
A. liability insurance
B. team interpreting
C. RID certification
D. legal training
A. liability insurance
13. Which of the following is NOT a dynamic of hearing/Deaf cross-cultural interactions?
A. Low context/high context
B. Individualist-oriented/ collectivist-oriented
C. Progress-oriented/ tradition-oriented
D. Acoustically-oriented/ silence-oriented
D. Acoustically-oriented/silence-oriented
18. Which of the following is most valued in a low-context culture?
A. Interdependence
B. Individuality
C. Shared experience
D. An intuitive approach to decision-making
B. Individuality
23. Which of the following has been shown to correlate most highly with the rate of occurrence of interpretation miscues?
A. Clozure skills
B. Concentration
C. Process time
D. Attention span
C. Process time
4. Most content adjustments that interpreters make are either linguistic or
A. Cultural
B. Spoken
C. Visual
D. Auditory
A. Cultural
9. If an interpreter accepts an assignment in another state and a different region, it is NOT appropriate to
A. ascertain from the Deaf consumers what their regional signs are before the assignment
B. use only the accepted regional signs from the interpreter's area
C. incorporate any regional signs being fed to the interpreter during the process of interpreting
D. review regional signs with local interpreters from that region
B. use only the accepted regional signs from the interpreter's area
14. Most spoken language interpreters find it easier to interpret from their
A. B language into their A language
B. B language into their L2 language
C. L1 language into their A language
D. A language into their B language
A. B language into their A language
19. Historically, Deaf culture has been passed from one generation to another primarily at
A mainstreamed schools
B. Gallaudet University
C. Deaf clubs
D. residential schools
D. residential schools
24. Deaf audience members leave a lecture understanding all of the facts given by the lecturer. Their impression of the lecturer is that she was ill-prepared and distant, when in fact she was highly prepared and genuinely warm. The interpreter erred in conveying which of the following elements of the presentation?
A. Content, B. Context, C. Affect, D. Meaning
C. Affect
5. Mainstreaming became widespread in the US primarily because of the
A. Enactment of Civil Rights legislation
B. Passage of Public Law 94-142
C. 1973 Rehabilitation Act
D. Americans with Disabilities Act
B. Passage of Public Law 94-142
10. The process of transmitting information from a form of English-like signing to spoken English is known as
A. transliteration
B. cueing
C. interpretation
D. translation
A. transliteration
15. Which of the following terms refers to philosophies underlying the education of Deaf and hard-of-hearing students that support communication in any way possible?
A. Simultaneous Communication
B. Bilingual/Bicultural Education
C. Total Communication
D. Linguistics of Visual English (L.O.V.E)
C. Total Communication
20. Which of the following is considered a universal form of communication?
A. Mime
B. ASL
C. PSE
D. MCE
A. Mime
25. A major reason Deaf people value residential schools is that residential schools are where
A. Deaf people experience the greatest academic challenge
B. Adult Deaf role models exist in abundance
C. People fully accept Deaf culture
D. Social identity and language competence are developed
D. Social identity and language competence are developed