2A ASL CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
●● What could help you remember the sign for "movie theatre"?
Answer: projector
●● Which technique did old silent movies heavily recur to tell a story?
Answer: pantomime
●● Classifiers are used with other _____.
Answer: signs
●● Sasha is an intermediate ASL student and wants to practice with her
ASL course classmate Mona. Sasha wants to ask Mona if she knows the
two girls that just ran by them so she starts by using the CL:2 Down
classifier showing someone running very fast, then she signs to Mona
asking if she knows them. Mona was not able to understand her. What
was Sasha's mistake?
Answer: Sasha should have established the subject of the conversation
before using a classifier
,●● What are the two signs that are used in the sign for the word
'bedroom'?
Answer: bed and room
●● What sign does your dominant hand use when signing "kitchen"?
Answer: K
●● Patty is trying to learn ASL but she's quite shy. She is learning ASL
from a book and has practiced her handshapes and signs hundreds of
times. Why do others likely have trouble understanding her whenever
she tries to have a signed conversation?
Answer: Having learned from still images, Patty likely hasn't given
much attention to facial expressions and NMM.
●● T/F
The practice of pointing is frowned upon in the Deaf community.
Answer: False
●● T/F
Classifiers stand in for a noun.
Answer: False
,●● Classifiers
Answer: designated handshapes and rule-grounded pantomime used to
represent categories of objects
●● Grammar
Answer: the whole system and structure of a language
●● Indexing
Answer: gesturing, pointing, or directing attention toward the actual
thing you are referring to
●● Lexicalized fingerspelling
Answer: blend together fingerspelling that forms the sign for a concept
●● Lexicon
Answer: an inventory of the vocabulary, grammar, and other units of
meaning, like classifiers, that make up a language
●● Non-Manual Markers (NMM)
Answer: face or body movements that affect the meaning of signs
●● Pantomime
, Answer: the act of using the body rather than words to describe things;
also, an art form that can be performed on stage
●● Real-World Orientation
Answer: the awareness of the space you are in, including your distance
from other objects or points of reference
●● Spatial Agreement
Answer: signing about a particular subject consistently in the direction
of the subject
●● Surface Classifiers
Answer: classifiers that describe the surface shape of the area or object
●● T/F
ASL is more direct, so it is okay to use words like fat, old, or short to
describe someone.
Answer: True
●● What do classifiers replace?
Answer: The subject of a verb
EXAM SCRIPT COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
●● What could help you remember the sign for "movie theatre"?
Answer: projector
●● Which technique did old silent movies heavily recur to tell a story?
Answer: pantomime
●● Classifiers are used with other _____.
Answer: signs
●● Sasha is an intermediate ASL student and wants to practice with her
ASL course classmate Mona. Sasha wants to ask Mona if she knows the
two girls that just ran by them so she starts by using the CL:2 Down
classifier showing someone running very fast, then she signs to Mona
asking if she knows them. Mona was not able to understand her. What
was Sasha's mistake?
Answer: Sasha should have established the subject of the conversation
before using a classifier
,●● What are the two signs that are used in the sign for the word
'bedroom'?
Answer: bed and room
●● What sign does your dominant hand use when signing "kitchen"?
Answer: K
●● Patty is trying to learn ASL but she's quite shy. She is learning ASL
from a book and has practiced her handshapes and signs hundreds of
times. Why do others likely have trouble understanding her whenever
she tries to have a signed conversation?
Answer: Having learned from still images, Patty likely hasn't given
much attention to facial expressions and NMM.
●● T/F
The practice of pointing is frowned upon in the Deaf community.
Answer: False
●● T/F
Classifiers stand in for a noun.
Answer: False
,●● Classifiers
Answer: designated handshapes and rule-grounded pantomime used to
represent categories of objects
●● Grammar
Answer: the whole system and structure of a language
●● Indexing
Answer: gesturing, pointing, or directing attention toward the actual
thing you are referring to
●● Lexicalized fingerspelling
Answer: blend together fingerspelling that forms the sign for a concept
●● Lexicon
Answer: an inventory of the vocabulary, grammar, and other units of
meaning, like classifiers, that make up a language
●● Non-Manual Markers (NMM)
Answer: face or body movements that affect the meaning of signs
●● Pantomime
, Answer: the act of using the body rather than words to describe things;
also, an art form that can be performed on stage
●● Real-World Orientation
Answer: the awareness of the space you are in, including your distance
from other objects or points of reference
●● Spatial Agreement
Answer: signing about a particular subject consistently in the direction
of the subject
●● Surface Classifiers
Answer: classifiers that describe the surface shape of the area or object
●● T/F
ASL is more direct, so it is okay to use words like fat, old, or short to
describe someone.
Answer: True
●● What do classifiers replace?
Answer: The subject of a verb
