NIC Knowledge Practice Test 2025/2026
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Which of the following certificates is STILL offered?
Select one:
a. Oral Transliteration Certificate (OTC)
b. Specialist Certificate: Legal (SC:L)
c. Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI)
d. Reverse Skills Certificate (RSC) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Certified Deaf
Interpreter
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 Correct
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,c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Helper
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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔A field which studies human communicative interaction
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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Topic Comment
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,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 - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔a classroom with a deaf student who is late-deafened
The common language of the Black Deaf Community is
Select one:
a. Black English
b. ASL
c. Signed English
d. Standard English - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ASL
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)
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, Select one:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔20
Deaf members of ethnic minorities in the United States have historically
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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Been subject to the same kinds of discrimination as non-Deaf minorities
Which of the following is NOT one of the five parameters of a sign?
Select one:
a. Location
b. Movement
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Answers | Latest Update
Which of the following certificates is STILL offered?
Select one:
a. Oral Transliteration Certificate (OTC)
b. Specialist Certificate: Legal (SC:L)
c. Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI)
d. Reverse Skills Certificate (RSC) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Certified Deaf
Interpreter
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 Correct
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,c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Helper
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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔A field which studies human communicative interaction
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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Topic Comment
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,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 - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔a classroom with a deaf student who is late-deafened
The common language of the Black Deaf Community is
Select one:
a. Black English
b. ASL
c. Signed English
d. Standard English - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ASL
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)
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, Select one:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔20
Deaf members of ethnic minorities in the United States have historically
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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Been subject to the same kinds of discrimination as non-Deaf minorities
Which of the following is NOT one of the five parameters of a sign?
Select one:
a. Location
b. Movement
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