NIC KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
(VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE
2025/2026
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) - CORRECT 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
c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Topic Comment
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 - CORRECT
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 - CORRECT 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)
Select one:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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
, c. Handshape
d. Morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER - Morpheme
When an interpreter figures out what she missed in the speaker's utterance, she is
using
Select one:
a. Prediction
b. Logic
c. Cloze skills
d. Intuition - CORRECT ANSWER - Cloze skills
The term used in linguistics to refer to elements of a language that convey mood,
style, emphasis, contrast, focus, and emotion is:
Select one:
a. Semantics
b. Dialect
c. Prosody
d. Grammar - CORRECT ANSWER - prosody
In processing models, the term deverbalization refers to:
Select one:
a. Comprehension of the source message
b. Formulation of the target message
c. Monitoring the process
(VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE
2025/2026
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) - CORRECT 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
c. Conduit or machine
d. Bilingual-bicultural - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Topic Comment
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 - CORRECT
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 - CORRECT 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)
Select one:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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
, c. Handshape
d. Morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER - Morpheme
When an interpreter figures out what she missed in the speaker's utterance, she is
using
Select one:
a. Prediction
b. Logic
c. Cloze skills
d. Intuition - CORRECT ANSWER - Cloze skills
The term used in linguistics to refer to elements of a language that convey mood,
style, emphasis, contrast, focus, and emotion is:
Select one:
a. Semantics
b. Dialect
c. Prosody
d. Grammar - CORRECT ANSWER - prosody
In processing models, the term deverbalization refers to:
Select one:
a. Comprehension of the source message
b. Formulation of the target message
c. Monitoring the process
