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1. According to Carolyn
Black way of signing with special linguistic features
McCaskill in the film Through
Deaf Eyes, Black Deaf people
tend to use
had their own schools, newspapers, churches, used
2. Deaf people were thought
their own language borrowed from another country
of as an ethnic group
similar to immi- grant ethnic
groups because they (choose
all that apply): True
3. Oral schools outlawed the
use of sign (Through Deaf inditterent to the politics of their university
Eyes)
4. Before the rally, students True
had been
5. The organizers of the rally
be- lieved they needed to act
quickly to get a deaf
president or else en- dure a
long wait.
6. Martha's Vineyard was a place which had a high concentration of genetic
deaf-
ness
7. According to Greenwald, Bell deaf people.
was a key player in the
eugenics move- ment and 8. A hearing person can be
advocated for pro- grams consid- ered Deaf if they
that would limit the rights of have Deaf par- ents/family,
deaf people to marry other use ASL fluently, and
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False
False
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are an active member of the
Deaf community.
9. The first institutes for the Sign language
deaf in the United States
used
10. Sociolinguistics is the study of the
False smallest unit of language
that has meaning.
11. Today, ASL is still not False
recognized or accepted as a
legitimate lan- guage, as
linguists have not yet found
that it can express any
thought, idea, or concept in
the way that a spoken
language can.
12. Which of these is not a language? Signed English
13. Historically, deaf children did ac- cepted as a legitimate
not have Deaf language language with the ability to
models and could not learn express any thought, idea, or
ASL at residen- tial schools concept, just like spoken
because sign lan- guage was language.
banned in classrooms with
young children from the late
1800s to the early 1970s.
14. Today, ASL is recognized and
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