NIC Knowledge Practice Test Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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NIC Knowledge Practice Test Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
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) - answer...
NIC Knowledge Practice Test Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
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) - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
d. Discarding the source language - answer✔✔Discarding the source language
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 - answer✔✔Keeping non-native signers out
of the profession
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 - answer✔✔The Tadoma method
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 - answer✔✔American Deaf-Mute Society Correct
All of the following are important for transliteration, EXCEPT:
Select one:
a. Clear and consistent mouthing
b. Classifiers and ASL grammar
c. Supplementary fingerspelling
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