ASL 101 QUIZ EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Signing Space - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Imagine a frame around a person that crosses their torso and
extends beyond both arms to a few inches above the head. This is "Signing Space" and it is important to
have a normal conversation in American Sign Language. Remember, always keep the frame when
watching someone signing. It allows you to see the conversation as a whole. You will see the signs, facial
expression, and the grammar from the signer.
Role of Eye Contact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Eye contact is the most important part of learning ASL.
- Maintaining eye contact during a conversation is as important as listening to someone speaking.
- What happens if you break the eye contact with the person that your having a conversation with?
- It cuts the conversation and it is very similar to having ear plugs into your ears when someone is
speaking to you. It is considered rude.
- Develop good habits to maintain eye contact with others while signing to the person or the person
signing to you.
-It is cultural and expected to have eye contact!
Importance of Facial Expressions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ASL, sentences and ideas are communicated
using signs, facial expression, and body movement. The use of facial expression and body movement
displays the vocal intonation and volume.
Hand Dominance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Signers have a dominant hand (one you write with) and a
non-dominant hand (the one you don't write with)
- When you are copying a sign from your teacher or Deaf friends, it is important to look at the
movement of the sign.
Example: look if the sign is moving away from the body, toward the body, toward the non-dominant
side. Looking at the movement of the sign will allow you to produce the sign more accurately.
, Understanding Fingerspelling (receptive) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Look at the signer's face and chin
area
- TIP:Even when the signer is signing and fingerspelling
- Do not make a habit by looking at the signer's hands (you will miss the important facial grammar
expression)
What to look for (finger spelling) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- see shape and movement pattern as a
whole, not individual letters.
- Tall letters: b, c, f, k, l, r, u, v, w
-Down letters: p, q
-Side letters: g, h
-Moving letters: j, z
-Length of word: 3 letters versus 6 letters
(red versus maroon)
The 3 C's - Context - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Use clues based on context to narrow the word choice
(fruits, cars, states, animals, generational names, locations)
-Look for restrictive clues (to narrow word possibilities even more colors of rainbow, types of apples,
types of cars)
The 3 C's- Configuration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Look for the shape of the whole word rather than
focusing on each letter.
TIP: it is the same strategy that we use for English reading
The 3 C's - Closure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Fill the gaps
-"u dnt ned se al th letrs to undrstnd"
- Catching the letters that you see and incorporate those clues with using the 3 C's to help you piece the
word together.
Signing Space - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Imagine a frame around a person that crosses their torso and
extends beyond both arms to a few inches above the head. This is "Signing Space" and it is important to
have a normal conversation in American Sign Language. Remember, always keep the frame when
watching someone signing. It allows you to see the conversation as a whole. You will see the signs, facial
expression, and the grammar from the signer.
Role of Eye Contact - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Eye contact is the most important part of learning ASL.
- Maintaining eye contact during a conversation is as important as listening to someone speaking.
- What happens if you break the eye contact with the person that your having a conversation with?
- It cuts the conversation and it is very similar to having ear plugs into your ears when someone is
speaking to you. It is considered rude.
- Develop good habits to maintain eye contact with others while signing to the person or the person
signing to you.
-It is cultural and expected to have eye contact!
Importance of Facial Expressions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ASL, sentences and ideas are communicated
using signs, facial expression, and body movement. The use of facial expression and body movement
displays the vocal intonation and volume.
Hand Dominance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Signers have a dominant hand (one you write with) and a
non-dominant hand (the one you don't write with)
- When you are copying a sign from your teacher or Deaf friends, it is important to look at the
movement of the sign.
Example: look if the sign is moving away from the body, toward the body, toward the non-dominant
side. Looking at the movement of the sign will allow you to produce the sign more accurately.
, Understanding Fingerspelling (receptive) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Look at the signer's face and chin
area
- TIP:Even when the signer is signing and fingerspelling
- Do not make a habit by looking at the signer's hands (you will miss the important facial grammar
expression)
What to look for (finger spelling) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- see shape and movement pattern as a
whole, not individual letters.
- Tall letters: b, c, f, k, l, r, u, v, w
-Down letters: p, q
-Side letters: g, h
-Moving letters: j, z
-Length of word: 3 letters versus 6 letters
(red versus maroon)
The 3 C's - Context - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Use clues based on context to narrow the word choice
(fruits, cars, states, animals, generational names, locations)
-Look for restrictive clues (to narrow word possibilities even more colors of rainbow, types of apples,
types of cars)
The 3 C's- Configuration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Look for the shape of the whole word rather than
focusing on each letter.
TIP: it is the same strategy that we use for English reading
The 3 C's - Closure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Fill the gaps
-"u dnt ned se al th letrs to undrstnd"
- Catching the letters that you see and incorporate those clues with using the 3 C's to help you piece the
word together.
