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NIC knowledge practice test Questions with CorrectAnswers
Which of the following certificates is STILL offered?
Select one:
a. Oral Transliteration Certificate (OTC)
b. Specialist Certificate: Legal (SC:L)
c. Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI)
d. Reverse Skills Certificate (RSC) Correct Answer-Certified Deaf
Interpreter
Which philosophical frame encompasses the belief that Deaf people are
incapable of fully understanding or participating in the world around
them?
Select one:
a. Language facilitation
b. Helper Correct
c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural Correct Answer-Helper
Discourse Analysis is:
Select one:
a. A field which analyzes formal texts
b. An analysis of foreign languages
c. A term for describing how writing is perceived
,d. A field which studies human communicative interaction Correct
Answer-A field which studies human communicative interaction
ASL most commonly employs a _________ sentence structure, whereas
English uses a subject-predicate format
Select one:
a. Predicate-verb
b. Topic-comment
c. Hold-movement-hold
d. Object-verb-subject Correct Answer-Topic Comment
In which of the following settings would an interpreter be MOST likely
to use transliteration?
Select one:
a. A medical appointment with a recent deaf immigrant
b. A classroom with a deaf student who is late-deafened
c. A job interview with a graduate of a residential school
d. A prison interview between an illiterate suspect and his attorney
Correct Answer-a classroom with a deaf student who is late-deafened
The common language of the Black Deaf Community is
Select one:
a. Black English
b. ASL
,c. Signed English
d. Standard English Correct Answer-ASL
Under the RID certification maintenance program, certified interpreters
must complete an average of ___ hours of continuing education per year
(0.1 CEU equals one hour)
Select one:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40 Correct Answer-20
Deaf members of ethnic minorities in the United States have historically
Select one:
a. Been treated well by white Deaf people
b. Been subject to the same kinds of discrimination as non-Deaf
minorities
c. Had their own separate signed languages instead of ASL
d. Never been fully integrated into schools for the Deaf Correct Answer-
Been subject to the same kinds of discrimination as non-Deaf minorities
Which of the following is NOT one of the five parameters of a sign?
Select one:
a. Location
, b. Movement
c. Handshape
d. Morpheme Correct Answer-Morpheme
When an interpreter figures out what she missed in the speaker's
utterance, she is using
Select one:
a. Prediction
b. Logic
c. Cloze skills
d. Intuition Correct Answer-Cloze skills
The term used in linguistics to refer to elements of a language that
convey mood, style, emphasis, contrast, focus, and emotion is:
Select one:
a. Semantics
b. Dialect
c. Prosody
d. Grammar Correct Answer-prosody
In processing models, the term deverbalization refers to:
Select one:
a. Comprehension of the source message
b. Formulation of the target message
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