ASL MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <BRAND NEW VERSION>

ASL MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS &lt;BRAND NEW VERSION&gt; 1. American Sign Language - ANSWER ASL 2. Where did Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet travel to study methods for teaching the Deaf? - ANSWER Europe 3. What is the difference between oralism and manualism? - ANSWER Oralism involves learning to understand and produce spoken language, while manualism refers to the use of sign language 4. Signing faster or slower can change the meaning of what you are communicating. True or False - ANSWER True 5. A system of gestural communication developed by deaf children whose parents do not use sign language - ANSWER home sign 6. Devolping hearing loss, or no hearing later in life but can speak - ANSWER Late-deafened 7. People who speak a language other than vernacular language - ANSWER linguistic minority 8. The ability to understand what someone is saying by watching the movement of lips, the facial expressions, and the body language of the other speaker when he or she is talking - ANSWER lip reading 9. A method of training or educating deaf persons through speech reading without using signs or fingerspelling - ANSWER oralism 10. Intricate specific hand shapes in ASL - ANSWER marked handshapes 11. Deafness was common in this place sign langauge was widely used. - ANSWER Martha Vineyard sign language 12. Action that conveys meaning - ANSWER sign 13. Language developed by members of a deaf community that uses visual rather than auditory communication - ANSWER sign language 14. Being married by law only - ANSWER Common Law 15. Insulting or intended to insult - ANSWER derogatory 16. To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound. - ANSWER modulate 17. A word derived from a proper noun - ANSWER proper adjective 18. Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea - ANSWER proper noun 19. Subject of sentence - ANSWER topic 20. The action the hands make to inact words - ANSWER Manualism 21. Denial or absence of something - ANSWER Negation 22. Non-dominant hand acting as a supporting role - ANSWER passive hand 23. 7 basic handshapes (natural handshapes) that are known across the world - ANSWER unmarked handshapes 24. Before there was an accepted standard sign language, members of the Deaf community began to develop their own signs at home in order to communicate with one another.(True or False) - ANSWER True 25. What term refers to the use of sign language to educate the Deaf? - ANSWER Manualism 26. Shape of hand no movement - ANSWER Handshape 27. Direction of palm - ANSWER Orientation 28. hands relation to the body - ANSWER location 29. moving in a sign - ANSWER movement 30. fine in english - ANSWER so-so 31. expressions not with your hands - ANSWER non-manual expressions 32. Never _____ at Deaf event - ANSWER speak 33. Always make _____ while sigining with deaf - ANSWER eye contact 34. There is no sugar coating in ASL(true or false) - ANSWER True - Fingerspelling - Predominately static handshapes - Used alone or with ASL or pedagogical sign systems - ANSWER American Manual Alphabet 35. Baby Sign Language is not considered to be a real sign language. - ANSWER True 36. What is a common way to say, 'I don't understand' in ASL? - ANSWER signing 'understand' and at the same time shaking the head 37. ASL may help you become better at giving directions because _____ - ANSWER It's a visual language and it trains your body to spatially relate yourself to your environment. 38. In ASL, the conjunctions 'and' and 'or' are heavily used to better clarify the signed sentences. - ANSWER False 39. When using the contrastive structure to ask a question, which sign is typically signed at the end of the sentence? - ANSWER which 40. Lara is approached by some tourists of a neighboring state that need directions to their hotel. Lara has lived in the city for over 20 years and knows all the important places in town. Her friends, who live in the city too, also tell her that she is very good at giving clear and easy-to-follow directions. Yet, she found it very difficult to provide the tourists with directions to the hotel. Based on the given information, what might be the reason for this? - ANSWER She usually gives directions based on the places her friends are familiar with but couldn't do the same with the tourists. 41. Which one could be considered a natural language? - ANSWER ASL 42. What do we call ASL verb signs that indicate an object's and subject's relation simply by the direction in which the verb is signed? - ANSWER inflecting verbs 43. All ASL verbs are directional verbs. - ANSWER False 44. Young Deaf people might use a different variation of ASL than older Deaf people. - ANSWER True 45. Where should your passive hand be if it is not "participating" in a sign? hanging at your side formed into one of the natural handshapes held gently across your torso with your palm facing your stomach placed behind your back - ANSWER formed into one of the natural handshapes 46. How does the location of a sign relate to its meaning? The location of a sign changes its meaning. The location of a sign does not change its meaning unless the passive hand is signing rather than the dominant hand. The location of a sign changes its meaning when the location changes and the hand that is making the marked sign changes. The location of a sign only changes its meaning when there is movement in the sign; otherwise, a sign's meaning stays consistent no matter where it is signed. - ANSWER The location of a sign changes its meaning. 47. What do the signs for "sick" and "depressed" have in common? they both incorporate the middle fingers of each hand touching the body in some way they both incorporate the pointer fingers of each hand touching the body in some way they both incorporate the ring fingers of each hand touching the body in some way they both incorporate the thumbs of each hand touching the body in some way - ANSWER they both incorporate the middle fingers of each hand touching the body in some way 48. Which of the below aspects of sign distinguishes how you sign numbers 1-5 from how you sign numbers 6-10? height at which you hold your hand up when signing hand movement which hand is used hand orientation - ANSWER hand orientation 49. Alexander Graham Bell's father and sister were both Hard of Hearing. True False - ANSWER False 50. In 1984, what poet performed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf during the Deaf Beat Summit, marking a milestone for the Deaf in public life? Marlee Matlin Allen Ginsberg Heather Whitestone William Stokoe - ANSWER Allen Ginsberg 51. The "mumps" was a common childhood illness before vaccination started in the United States in 1967. Stuart was born in 1940 and never received a vaccination. He ended up contracting mumps as a child and, as a result, is completely unable to perceive any sound through his ears. Which of the following terms most accurately describes Stuart's condition? late-deafened oral deaf profound deafness manual deaf - ANSWER profound deafness 52. Samantha contracted a severe ear infection shortly after birth and has been Deaf most of her life. She grew up learning ASL and uses it as her predominate form of communication. Which of the following terms most accurately describes Samantha? manual deaf late-deafened oral deaf profoundly deaf - ANSWER manual deaf 53. People born Deaf are more likely to have a hard time identifying with the Deaf culture. True False - ANSWER False 54. How did the views that oralists held about Deaf education differ from modern linguists? Oralists believed that the Deaf community only included those who were Deaf themselves, while modern linguists realize that the Deaf community encompasses the family members and others who interact with the Deaf community as well. Oralists believed that if Deaf children were exposed to sign language, they would struggle learning spoken or written language whereas modern linguists have found that learning sign language actually enhances the ability of both Deaf and hearing children to learn spoken and written language. Oralists preferred to teach methods of speechreading while modern linguists assert that it is necessary to also teach some form of sign. Oralists advocated for the establishment of a Deaf state in the Western United States, while modern linguists support an integration of both Deaf and hearing communities in all - ANSWER Oralists believed that the Deaf community only included those who were Deaf themselves, while modern linguists realize that the Deaf community encompasses the family members and others who interact with the Deaf community as well. 55. You and your friend Meredith end up getting onto the topic of ethnicity. She explains that she is from a Native American family, feels strongly tied to her family's background, and is very proud of her ethnicity. Knowing what you know about ethnicity from this unit, what does Meredith likely mean by this? She feels most comfortable around her own family members as they share the same ancestry. She feels strongly tied to a certain social group with a common cultural or national tradition. She loves being grouped together with her family by their nationality. She does not see her family's past as having a large influence on her own life. - ANSWER She feels strongly tied to a certain social group with a common cultural or national tradition. 56. What is a common belief in Deaf culture? the belief that the hearing community doesn't accept them being born deaf is more welcomed in the Deaf community rather than becoming deaf later in life the reaction against the idea of deafness as a disability the Deaf community shouldn't be considered as a separate ethnic group - ANSWER the reaction against the idea of deafness as a disability 57. What types of jobs were Deaf people frequently hired for during the wars? health care part time construction factory - ANSWER factory 58. Which two 2-word phrases are signed using the first letters of each respective word in the phrase? physical education and high school high school and middle school middle school and vice principal vice principal and physical education - ANSWER physical education and high school 59. Which school did Abraham Lincoln assist in establishing? Gallaudet University American School for the Deaf The Connecticut School College for the Deaf - ANSWER Gallaudet University