NIC KNOWLEDGE EXAM | 363 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - ANSWER National Consortium of Interpreter
Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance
Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are
used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.
Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige", and the other is "low" or "low
prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - ANSWER Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL
this is comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm
orientation, and non-manual markers. - ANSWER Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - ANSWER Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - ANSWER Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - ANSWER Pidgin Signed English
,Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - ANSWER
Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - ANSWER Vocational
Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - ANSWER
Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - ANSWER
Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and
phrasing that help listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will
say next. - ANSWER Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and
"ALCOHOL" - ANSWER Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of
being. - ANSWER Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. -
ANSWER Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - ANSWER Special Certificate-Legal
,What does "HVO" stand for? - ANSWER Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a
larger word. - ANSWER Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped,
limited, and incapable of understanding or participating in the world. This model
is characterized by paternalistic care-taking behavior on the part of the
interpreter. - ANSWER The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no
responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics taking place
between clients - ANSWER The Machine Model (The Conduit Model) or
Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? - ANSWER National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - ANSWER Source
language
What does "VRS" stand for? - ANSWER Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? - ANSWER Video Remote Interpreting
, Name the 8 parts of speech - ANSWER Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb,
conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - ANSWER Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires
cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and
maintain dynamic equivalence. - ANSWER The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or
Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? -
ANSWER A practice profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an
interpreter for their driver's test? - ANSWER ADA Title II: public entities and
transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences -
ANSWER Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - ANSWER Linguistics of Visual English
What does "QA" stand for? - ANSWER Quality Assurance
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - ANSWER National Consortium of Interpreter
Education Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance
Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are
used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.
Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige", and the other is "low" or "low
prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - ANSWER Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL
this is comprised of 5 parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm
orientation, and non-manual markers. - ANSWER Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - ANSWER Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - ANSWER Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - ANSWER Pidgin Signed English
,Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - ANSWER
Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - ANSWER Vocational
Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - ANSWER
Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - ANSWER
Minimal Language Competency (MLC)
The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and
phrasing that help listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will
say next. - ANSWER Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and
"ALCOHOL" - ANSWER Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of
being. - ANSWER Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. -
ANSWER Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - ANSWER Special Certificate-Legal
,What does "HVO" stand for? - ANSWER Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a
larger word. - ANSWER Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped,
limited, and incapable of understanding or participating in the world. This model
is characterized by paternalistic care-taking behavior on the part of the
interpreter. - ANSWER The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no
responsibility for the interaction or communication dynamics taking place
between clients - ANSWER The Machine Model (The Conduit Model) or
Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? - ANSWER National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - ANSWER Source
language
What does "VRS" stand for? - ANSWER Video Relay Service
What does "VRI" stand for? - ANSWER Video Remote Interpreting
, Name the 8 parts of speech - ANSWER Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb,
conjunction, preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - ANSWER Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires
cultural and linguistic mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and
maintain dynamic equivalence. - ANSWER The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or
Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? -
ANSWER A practice profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an
interpreter for their driver's test? - ANSWER ADA Title II: public entities and
transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences -
ANSWER Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - ANSWER Linguistics of Visual English
What does "QA" stand for? - ANSWER Quality Assurance
