NIC knowledge practice test Study Guide Rated A+
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)
Which philosophical fr...
1). 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)
Ans: Certified Deaf Interpreter
2). 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
Ans: Helper
3). 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
Ans: A field which studies human communicative interaction
4). 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
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, Ans: Topic Comment
5). 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
Ans: a classroom with a deaf student who is late-deafened
6). The common language of the black deaf community is
select one:
a. black english
b. asl
c. signed english
d. standard english
Ans: ASL
7). 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
Ans: 20
8). 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
Ans: Been subject to the same kinds of discrimination as non-Deaf minorities
9). Which of the following is not one of the five parameters of a sign?
select one:
a. location
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, b. movement
c. handshape
d. morpheme
Ans: Morpheme
10). 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
Ans: Cloze skills
11). 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
Ans: prosody
12). 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
d. discarding the source language
Ans: Discarding the source language
13). Rid was established in 1964 with the following goals, except:
select one:
a. publishing a registry of interpreters
b. keeping non-native signers out of the profession
c. investigating evaluation and certification systems
d. informing the public about interpreting services
Ans: Keeping non-native signers out of the profession
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, 14). Deaf-blind people have used which method of communication least?
select one:
a. tactile signing
b. close-range signing
c. the tadoma method
d. print-on-palm
Ans: The Tadoma method
15). Each of the following is an actual american deaf organization, except:
select one:
a. national asian deaf congress
b. deaf women united
c. association of late-deafened adults
d. american deaf-mute society
Ans: American Deaf-Mute Society Correct
16). All of the following are important for transliteration, except:
select one:
a. clear and consistent mouthing
b. classifiers and asl grammar
c. supplementary fingerspelling
d. eye gaze and use of space
Ans: Classifiers and ASL grammar
17). Which of the following should an interpreter consider most when deciding whether to
accept an assignment?
select one:
a. whether or not the deaf person is pleasant
b. whether or not the assignment sounds like fun
c. whether or not there is someone who might do a better job
d. whether or not the interpreter can get there on time
Ans: Whether or not the interpreter can get there on time
18). Which form of interpreting should be used in a medical appointment with a recent
immigrant?
select one:
a. consecutive
b. simultaneous
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