NIC Knowledge Test Questions and Answers 100% Pass
QUESTION: 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
c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural ✓✓Correct Answer: Helper
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
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,QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: Deaf members of ethnic minorities in the United States have historically
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,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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
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, b. Dialect
c. Prosody
d. Grammar ✓✓Correct Answer: prosody
QUESTION: In processing models, the term deverbalization refers to:
Select one:
a. Comprehension of the source message
b. Formulation of the target message
c. Monitoring the process
d. Discarding the source language ✓✓Correct Answer: Discarding the source language
QUESTION: RID was established in 1964 with the following goals, except:
Select one:
a. Publishing a registry of interpreters
b. Keeping non-native signers out of the profession
c. Investigating evaluation and certification systems
d. Informing the public about interpreting services ✓✓Correct Answer: Keeping non-native signers
out of the profession
QUESTION: Deaf-Blind people have used which method of communication LEAST?
Select one:
a. Tactile signing
b. Close-range signing
c. The Tadoma method
d. Print-on-palm ✓✓Correct Answer: The Tadoma method
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QUESTION: 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
c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural ✓✓Correct Answer: Helper
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
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,QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: Deaf members of ethnic minorities in the United States have historically
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,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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
QUESTION: 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
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, b. Dialect
c. Prosody
d. Grammar ✓✓Correct Answer: prosody
QUESTION: In processing models, the term deverbalization refers to:
Select one:
a. Comprehension of the source message
b. Formulation of the target message
c. Monitoring the process
d. Discarding the source language ✓✓Correct Answer: Discarding the source language
QUESTION: RID was established in 1964 with the following goals, except:
Select one:
a. Publishing a registry of interpreters
b. Keeping non-native signers out of the profession
c. Investigating evaluation and certification systems
d. Informing the public about interpreting services ✓✓Correct Answer: Keeping non-native signers
out of the profession
QUESTION: Deaf-Blind people have used which method of communication LEAST?
Select one:
a. Tactile signing
b. Close-range signing
c. The Tadoma method
d. Print-on-palm ✓✓Correct Answer: The Tadoma method
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