NIC Knowledge Exam (Written)
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔National Consortium of
Interpreter Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Educational Interpreter
Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under
different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as
"high" or "prestige", and the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL this is
comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and non-
manual markers. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Vocational
Rehabilitation
,Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and phrasing that
help listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and "ALCOHOL" -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of being. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a larger word. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped, limited, and
incapable of understanding or participating in the world. This model is characterized by
paternalistic care-taking behavior on the part of the interpreter. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no
responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics taking place between clients -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Machine Model (The Conduit Model) or Philosphy
,What does "NBDA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Source
language
What does "VRS" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective,
adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires cultural and
linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and maintain dynamic equivalence.
- CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔A practice profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an interpreter for
their driver's test? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔ADA Title II: public entities and
transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Linguistics of Visual English
, What does "QA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Quality Assurance
What does "QAST" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Quality Assessment State Test
The simplest word order in ASL sentences is? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Subject-Verb-
Object
What does "WFD" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔World Federation of the Deaf
This term is used to describe when a bilingual individual is using one language and then
changes to another language. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔code-switching
When does code-switching occur? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔When a speaker alternates
between two or more languages, or language varieties in the context of a single conversation.
The ability to supply missing/deleted words or concepts in order to understand/complete the
sentence. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cloze skills
Free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning,
that can stand alone
The study of the formation and inflection of words in ASL. It studies how morphemes (the
smallest units of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔ASL morphology
The study of the formation and inflection of words. It studies how morphemes (the smallest
units of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Morphology
Numerical incorporation is an example of:
Cloze skills, Loan words, ASL morphology, Bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔ASL Morphology
UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔National Consortium of
Interpreter Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Educational Interpreter
Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under
different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as
"high" or "prestige", and the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL this is
comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and non-
manual markers. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Vocational
Rehabilitation
,Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and phrasing that
help listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and "ALCOHOL" -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of being. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a larger word. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped, limited, and
incapable of understanding or participating in the world. This model is characterized by
paternalistic care-taking behavior on the part of the interpreter. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no
responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics taking place between clients -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Machine Model (The Conduit Model) or Philosphy
,What does "NBDA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Source
language
What does "VRS" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective,
adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires cultural and
linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and maintain dynamic equivalence.
- CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔A practice profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an interpreter for
their driver's test? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔ADA Title II: public entities and
transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Linguistics of Visual English
, What does "QA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Quality Assurance
What does "QAST" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Quality Assessment State Test
The simplest word order in ASL sentences is? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Subject-Verb-
Object
What does "WFD" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔World Federation of the Deaf
This term is used to describe when a bilingual individual is using one language and then
changes to another language. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔code-switching
When does code-switching occur? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔When a speaker alternates
between two or more languages, or language varieties in the context of a single conversation.
The ability to supply missing/deleted words or concepts in order to understand/complete the
sentence. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cloze skills
Free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning,
that can stand alone
The study of the formation and inflection of words in ASL. It studies how morphemes (the
smallest units of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔ASL morphology
The study of the formation and inflection of words. It studies how morphemes (the smallest
units of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Morphology
Numerical incorporation is an example of:
Cloze skills, Loan words, ASL morphology, Bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔ASL Morphology
