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The first school for the deaf, now known as the American School for the Deaf, was established by Deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc and hearing American Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in ___ during the year of ______.

A. Hartford, Connecticut; 1817

B. Rochester, New York; 1917

C. Annapolis, Maryland; 1877

D. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 1871

A. Hartford, Connecticut; 1817

ASL was formally recognized as a natural language in _ by William C. Stokoe, Dorothy Casterline and Carl Cronenberg.

A. 1960

B. 1970

C. 1980

D. 1950

A. 1960

Andrew Foster was a Black-Deaf American is best known for__

A. His linguistic studies of Black ASL

B. Establishing mission schools for Deaf students in Africa as an educator

C. Being first Black Deaf person to get a Ph.D. from Yale University

D. Being first Black person appointed to Gallaudet University's governing board

B. Establishing mission schools for Deaf students in Africa as an educator

How many states in the U.S. recognize ASL to be taken as a foreign language in school?

A. 25

B. 45

C. 10

D. 30

B. 45

Missionaries and teachers who travel to other countries, teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to local Deaf communities are often responsible for:

A.the deaths of local, indigenous sign languages

B. the documentation of local, indigenous sign languages

C. the linguistic research into local, indigenous sign languages

D. the standardization of their local, indigenous sign languages

A.the deaths of local, indigenous sign languages

What tool do linguists use to compare sign languages, look for similarities, and study roots of sign vocabulary?

A. Statistics

B. Brain-imaging

C. Lexicostatistics

D. videocapturing

C. Lexicostatistics

Which sign language was used by both Deaf and hearing people in schools, churches and at the marketplace?

A. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)

B. Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL)

C. Old Spanish Sign Language

D. Old French Sign Language

A. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)

ASL is spread mostly through:

A. Horizontal transfer, from deaf person to deaf person

B. Vertical transfer, from parent to deaf child

C. Diagonal transfer, from school to deaf child

D. Extrasensory perception among Deaf people in Deaf communities.

A. Horizontal transfer, from deaf person to deaf person

Ethnologue estimates there are different sign languages used in the world.

A. 144

B. 73

C. 37

D. 317

A. 144

American Sign Language, which is slightly less than 300 years old, came from several older sign languages. What were they?

A. Old Spanish and French Sign Language, Native or Indigenous Sign Languages, African-American sign language, and the sign languages of New England villages

B. Old British Sign Language, Native Sign Language, and home signs and gestures used in different homes

C. Old Spanish Sign Language, Costa Rica Sign Language and the native sign languages of different villages in Mexico

D. Old Canadian Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Languages and Alaskan Sign Language as well as sign languages of Greenland

A. Old Spanish and French Sign Language, Native or Indigenous Sign Languages, African-American sign language, and the sign languages of New England villages

Deaf individuals have better:

A. Peripheral vision than hearing people

B. Tactile ability than hearing people

C. Olfactory sensitivity than hearing people

D. Gustatory perception than hearing people

A. Peripheral vision than hearing people

Deaf children who have no access to language from birth:

A. often invent their own system of gestures to express themselves

B. can communicate telepathically with animals and house pets

C. are moved to state institutions for life-long care

D. are detected by school systems early, and parents are fined

A. often invent their own system of gestures to express themselves

Deaf students can be multilingual .

A. Only in two spoken languages

B. Only in two signed languages

C. In both multiple spoken and signed languages

D. In fingerspelling alphabets from different countries

C. In both multiple spoken and signed languages

Spoken and sign languages activate what part of the brain?

A. The same area of the brain, responsible for language

B. Different parts of the brain, with spoken languages activating the auditory component and sign languages activating the spatial component

C. The same area of the brain, responsible for auditory processing

D. Different parts of the brain, with spoken languages activating the hearing sense, while sign languages activating the visual/tactile sense

A. The same area of the brain, responsible for language

The role of DeafBlind mentors is to:

A. Assist DeafBlind persons in getting housing

B. Provide visual, auditory, and tactile modes of role modeling

C. Provide job parenting for DeafBlind persons

D. Provide training for seeing-eye service dogs

B. Provide visual, auditory, and tactile modes of role modeling

Most Deaf people learn English through:

A. Reading

B. Speaking

C. Speech reading

D. Listening

A. Reading

Deaf people are also better than hearing people at:

A. forming pictures in their mind, remembering objects and moving objects, changing visual attention and scanning visual material, detecting motion and recognizing faces

B. dancing, gymnastics, tai chi, yoga, ballet and aquatic aerobics