SHS 222 UIUC Study Guide Exam #Questions with correct
answers
According to the video, in the past, hearing people saw deafness as a "horrendous
misfortune" and believed that deaf people could not be educated - ✔✔True
HEARING-BUT means - ✔✔a person can hear, but they are almost like a Deaf
person in terms of ASL ability and competence with Deaf culture
Bell said that "Legal prohibition of marriage should only be reasoned to in cases
where there could be no manner of doubt that the community would suffer as a
result of the marriage." What is Greenwald's opinion on Bell's statement? -
✔✔His papers and his association with eugenics practitioners imply that the
human race would suffer if deaf people were allowed to procreate
The practice of capitalizing the D in Deaf has been utilized since the 1980s and
refers to - ✔✔people who do not hear and who choose to use ASL, participate in
the Deaf community, and embrace Deaf culture
To many Deaf people, Hard-of-Hearing signals - ✔✔someone whose experiences
are closer to those of hearing people
Most deaf people are born to deaf parents and have deaf children of their own. -
✔✔False
Residential school experience, use of ASL as the primary form of communication,
and participation in the wider Deaf community are visible markers of -
✔✔traditional facets of Deaf culture
,Alexander Graham Bell is best known for - ✔✔inventing the telephone
Deaf people want you to see them as having a physical handicap, as being not
normal, and as wanted to be cured - ✔✔False
Laurent Clerc brought ____________ to the United States - ✔✔French Sign
Language
France is important in the history of Deaf culture and ASL because: - ✔✔a.
the history of French sign language provides us with evidence that natural sign
language existed
b.
it was a Frenchman, Laurent Clerc, who came to the US with Gallaudet to help us
establish what would eventually become Gallaudet University
c.
Laurent Clerc, the Frenchman who came to the US with Gallaudet, helped us to
model an early form of ASL on a mixture of our own 'homegrown' signs plus
English grammar, plus signs from Old French Sign Language (OFSL)
Today, ASL is still not recognized or accepted as a legitimate language, as linguists
have not yet found that it can express any thought, idea, or concept in the way
that a spoken language can. - ✔✔False
, American Sign Language, Pidgin Sign English, and Signed Exact English are all
signed mediums of communication, although, as you have learned, they are not
considered linguistically (or socially) equal. In terms of efficiency of
communication, rank the signing styles from longest to shortest duration when all
are used to describe the same thing: - ✔✔SEE, PSE, ASL
Martha's Vineyard is an example of a strong and flourishing Deaf community and -
✔✔provides evidence of an indigenous sign language being used on the island
A young cleric in Paris named Abbe de L'Epee recognized that sign language: -
✔✔could be used to educate deaf children
Englished ASL has also been called - ✔✔Modern ASL
Do signed languages have all types of variation: social, ethnic, gender, age, as well
as linguistic variation, like phonological, morphological, lexical, and so on? -
✔✔Yes.
Communicative competence is the idea that, when someone knows a language,
they know how to use the forms of the language, and nothing more. - ✔✔False
The study of the interrelationship of language and social structure, including
language variation, language contact, language planning and policy, language
attitudes, and conversation analysis, is called - ✔✔sociolinguistics
Which of these is not a language? - ✔✔Signed English
answers
According to the video, in the past, hearing people saw deafness as a "horrendous
misfortune" and believed that deaf people could not be educated - ✔✔True
HEARING-BUT means - ✔✔a person can hear, but they are almost like a Deaf
person in terms of ASL ability and competence with Deaf culture
Bell said that "Legal prohibition of marriage should only be reasoned to in cases
where there could be no manner of doubt that the community would suffer as a
result of the marriage." What is Greenwald's opinion on Bell's statement? -
✔✔His papers and his association with eugenics practitioners imply that the
human race would suffer if deaf people were allowed to procreate
The practice of capitalizing the D in Deaf has been utilized since the 1980s and
refers to - ✔✔people who do not hear and who choose to use ASL, participate in
the Deaf community, and embrace Deaf culture
To many Deaf people, Hard-of-Hearing signals - ✔✔someone whose experiences
are closer to those of hearing people
Most deaf people are born to deaf parents and have deaf children of their own. -
✔✔False
Residential school experience, use of ASL as the primary form of communication,
and participation in the wider Deaf community are visible markers of -
✔✔traditional facets of Deaf culture
,Alexander Graham Bell is best known for - ✔✔inventing the telephone
Deaf people want you to see them as having a physical handicap, as being not
normal, and as wanted to be cured - ✔✔False
Laurent Clerc brought ____________ to the United States - ✔✔French Sign
Language
France is important in the history of Deaf culture and ASL because: - ✔✔a.
the history of French sign language provides us with evidence that natural sign
language existed
b.
it was a Frenchman, Laurent Clerc, who came to the US with Gallaudet to help us
establish what would eventually become Gallaudet University
c.
Laurent Clerc, the Frenchman who came to the US with Gallaudet, helped us to
model an early form of ASL on a mixture of our own 'homegrown' signs plus
English grammar, plus signs from Old French Sign Language (OFSL)
Today, ASL is still not recognized or accepted as a legitimate language, as linguists
have not yet found that it can express any thought, idea, or concept in the way
that a spoken language can. - ✔✔False
, American Sign Language, Pidgin Sign English, and Signed Exact English are all
signed mediums of communication, although, as you have learned, they are not
considered linguistically (or socially) equal. In terms of efficiency of
communication, rank the signing styles from longest to shortest duration when all
are used to describe the same thing: - ✔✔SEE, PSE, ASL
Martha's Vineyard is an example of a strong and flourishing Deaf community and -
✔✔provides evidence of an indigenous sign language being used on the island
A young cleric in Paris named Abbe de L'Epee recognized that sign language: -
✔✔could be used to educate deaf children
Englished ASL has also been called - ✔✔Modern ASL
Do signed languages have all types of variation: social, ethnic, gender, age, as well
as linguistic variation, like phonological, morphological, lexical, and so on? -
✔✔Yes.
Communicative competence is the idea that, when someone knows a language,
they know how to use the forms of the language, and nothing more. - ✔✔False
The study of the interrelationship of language and social structure, including
language variation, language contact, language planning and policy, language
attitudes, and conversation analysis, is called - ✔✔sociolinguistics
Which of these is not a language? - ✔✔Signed English
