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Contents
1 Language and Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1 Nature of Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Approaches to the Study of Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 Language Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 Phonetics and Phonology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.1 Articulatory Phonetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.2 Phonetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.3 Phonology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3 Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.1 Morphology concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.2 Morphological Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
3.3 Word-Formation Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
3.4 Morpho-syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
4 Semantics and Pragmatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

4.1 Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
4.2 Pragmatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
5 Historical Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

5.1 Historical Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
5.2 Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
6 Sociolinguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
6.1 Linguistic Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
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6.2 Language Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

6.3 Sociolinguistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

7 real Typology and South Asian Language Familie . . . . . . . 251
7.1 Language Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
7.2 Features of South Asian Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
7.3 India as a Linguistc Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
8 Psycholinguistics, Language Learning and Language Teach-

ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
8.1 Psycholinguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
8.2 Language Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
8.3 Language Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
8.4 Contrastive Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
9 Translation,Lexicography, Computational Linguistics, Stylis-

tics, Language and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
9.1 Applied Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
9.2 Lexicography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
9.3 LexicoLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
9.4 Computational Linguistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
9.5 Language and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
1. Language and Linguistics
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1.1 Nature of Language
1. Which variety of language developed as 4. Talking about things whose existence can-
part of trading activities between groups not be confirmed such as heavan or magic
that do not speak each others language? is associated with
A. Pidgin A. Reflexivity of language
B. Creole B. Abstraction
C. Non-standard language C. Displacement
D. Slang D. Arbitrariness
2. Choose ONE correct answer blown 5. The coexistence of two closely related na-
from the nearby rubbish tips is what ruins tive languages wherein one is considered
the local environment the most. more prestigious in comparison.
A. Sewage
A. Standardisation of language
B. Waste
B. Vernaculars
C. Debris
C. Diglossia
D. none of above
D. Register
3. God created Adam and “whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that 6. The process by which a language is
was the name thereof.” is derived from passed on from one generation to the next
the book of is
A. Exodus A. Displacement
B. Psalms B. Diglossia
C. Genesis C. Cultural Transmission
D. First epistle to Thessalonians D. Interactive Transition
1. A 2. C 3. C 4. C 5. C 6. C 7. B
1.1 Nature of Language 3
7. The first step in analysing learner errors 13. The text concludes that
is: A. We should copy all living beings

A. To focus on what learner’s get right.
B. Biomimetics offers many opportunities
B. To identify them.
C. To eliminate grammar errors. C. Biometics is the science to copy living
D. none of above beings characteristics
8. Where is the Gecko being studied? D. WE should all study biomimetics
A. At Stanford school 14. connection has been proposed between

B. At UDEA language, , and right-handedness in
the majority of humans.
C. At Harvard
A. larynx
D. At Stanford University
B. tool-using
9. make diving
C. Lips
A. to go scuba diving
D. true
B. to fall overboard
C. to go boating 15. According to the conclusion, biomimetics
will take time because
D. to go sailing
A. It’s very expensive
10. Which theory/ source are the following
words linked with, “Chweing, Licking, and B. Evolution is slow
sucking” C. We don’t have enough materials
A. Genetic source D. This is really surprising
B. Social Interaction Sorce
16. system of communication that utilizes
C. Natural sound Source combined voice sounds, arbitrary signals,
D. Physical adaption source written symbols, etc is
11. contains the vocal folds/cords; often re- A. Communication

ferred to as the “voice box”; in lower po- B. words
sition than monkeys.
C. Language
A. tongue
D. None of the above
B. larynx
C. mouth 17. What is biomimetics?
D. pharynx A. The science to copy living beings char-
acteristics
12. According to the text, what can animals
B. The science to copy living beings ap-
and plants teach us?
pearance
A. About Science and nature
C. The science to copy living beings move-
B. About engineering and science ments
C. About design and science D. The science to copy living beings
D. About design and engineering thoughts
8. D 9. A 10. D 11. B 12. D 13. B 14. B 15. B 16. C 17. A 18. A

18. Choose ONE correct answer.There’s 23. The components of language are
fewer and fewer rhinos left in the wild A. phonology, syntax, semantics, prag-
and the studies show that their extinc- matics, phonetic
tion is almost certain.
B. phonology, morphology, semantics,
A. imminent syntax, pragmatics
B. immediate C. phonetics, morphology, semantics,
C. immaculate syntax, pragmatics
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D. none of above D. none of above
24. Choose ONE correct answer.Lots of con-

19. The largest family tree amongst the 30 lan-
tamination of the oceans comes from the
guage family trees is
local
A. Indo-American A. landslides
B. Eurasian B. landfills
C. Indo-European C. rubbish tips
20. to do windsurfing 25. What will be the result of studying the box
fish?
A. to go scuba diving
A. More expensive cars
B. to go strawberry picking
B. Faster and efficient cars
C. to go rock climbing
C. More beautiful cars
D. to go wind surfing
D. More comfortable cars
21. Choose ONE correct answer.The rally on 26. The aspect of the relationship between
Australian desert pushes you to the limits words and objects is termed
of physical and mental
A. Productivity
A. capability
B. Duality
B. capacity
C. Arbitrariness
C. enduring D. none of above
D. none of above
27. Which of these is not a type of linguistics
22. A child who is Indian by birth but raised A. historical
in Germany is fluent is German but unable B. personal
to speak any of the Indian languages. This
situation is a result of C. comparative
A. Productivity D. synchronic
B. Observational learning 28. A variety of language that is characteristic

to a particular geographical area or com-
C. Cultural Transmission
munity with minor differences in pronun-
D. none of above ciations and vocabulary.
19. C 20. D 21. B 22. C 23. B 24. B 25. B 26. C 27. B 28. D 29. B
A. Slang 34. Choose ONE correct answer.It was the

B. Diglossia right choice, leaving the of the big city
behind and moving out on that remote is-

C. Accent land.
D. Dialect A. hastle and bastle
29. When was Velcro invented? B. hustle and bustle
A. 1984 C. bustle and hustle
B. In 1948 D. none of above
C. In 1849 35. probably not the “source” of language
D. In 1489 production, but certainly played a role in
adding structure to language
30. In 1500 A.D. King James carried out a simi-
A. bow-wow theory
lar experiment to Psammetichus; children
were reported to speak B. yo-he-ho theory
A. latin C. pooh-pooh theory
B. hebrew D. none of above
C. hindi 36. Where does the idea for Velcro come
D. larynx from?
A. Lotus plants
31. Children reared without tend to never
develop fluent language. B. Gecko
A. social interaction source C. Fish box
B. language contact in early years D. A burr
C. manual gestures 37. Do not the vegetation

D. sounds heard in nature A. to like
B. observer
32. Spanish speaker pronouncing English
word story as estory is an example of C. pollute
D. destroy
A. Metathesis
38. take a walk
B. Epenthesis
A. to take a sightseeing tour
C. Prothesis
B. to take a walk
D. none of above
C. to go horseback riding
33. The ability that helps humans to reflect on, D. to explore
think about language & modify it
39. The properties of language are:
A. Rapid fade
A. creativity, displacement, arbitrariness,
B. Reciprocity productivity, duality
C. Reflexivity B. displacement, arbitrariness, produc-
D. Displacement tivity, cultural transmission, duality
30. B 31. B 32. C 33. C 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. D 38. B 39. B
C. cultural transmission, duality, dis- 45. it is not necessary

placement, arbitrariness A. you should not
D. none of above B. you did not
C. he did not
40. What’s special about geckos?
D. she thought that
A. They jump very high
46. Which of the following are a aprt of the
B. They move quickly up and down physical adaption sorce possesd
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C. They sleep a lot A. Teeth, eyes, hands
D. They can fly B. Pharynx, tongue, nose
C. Teeth, Larynx, mouth
41. A definition of Linguistics could be
D. Larynx, tongue, eyes
A. scientific study of speech
47. Grammar could be checked from these
B. scientific study of human nature of lan- perspectives
guage
A. notional, functional
C. scientific study of grammar and B. inductive, deductive
sounds
C. descriptive, prescriptive
42. take a boat ride 48. The most common errors in learning lan-
guage is:
A. to take a stroll
A. Orally.
B. to get lost
B. in writting.
C. to go for a walk
C. both, orally and writting.
D. to go boating D. none of above
43. which organism other than humans con- 49. Language change/ variation vowed
tain a of smalll amount of displacement in chronologically from a historical perspec-
language? tive.
A. Dogs A. Synchronic change
B. Diachronic change
B. Cats
C. Internal change
C. Chimpanzees
D. External change
D. Bees
50. Primitive words are derived from imita-
44. Communication is the tions of natural sounds that early men
heard around them
A. Method
A. Bow-Bow Theory
B. Study B. Pooh-Pooh Theory
C. Process C. Yo-He-Ho Theory
D. Speech Mechanism D. none of above
40. B 41. B 42. D 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. C 47. C 48. C 49. B 50. A 51. C
51. Words that sound similar to the noises C. to sunbathe

they describe are examples of D. to watch the sunset

A. larynx
57. Which linguist defined language as a com-
B. morphemes municative institution by means of habitu-
C. onomatopoeia ally used oral-audolitory symbols?
D. divine source A. Chomsky
B. Hall
52. Choose ONE correct answer.The seeds
are stored in the vault, to help us over- C. Sapir
come disease, drought and other chal- D. Robins
lenges in the future.
58. According to , early humans may have
A. unforeseen
developed a set of grunts, groans, and
B. unforeseeable curses used when lifting, carrying, etc.
C. unseen A. social interaction source
D. none of above B. physical adaption source
53. are the features of language C. sounds heard in nature
A. It is assumed that language seperates D. divine source

humans from animals 59. Choose ONE correct answer waste
B. We need a system of codes, symbols, from the local factories is one of the main
to communicate and express ourselves reasons the drinking water is dense in
contaminants.
C. Some features are innate
A. Industrial
D. All of the above
B. Poisonous
54. What characteristic from Lotus was
C. Hazardous
copied in Paint products?
D. none of above
A. Water and dirt stick on it
B. Water and dirt don’t stick on it 60. which of these terms refers to the study
of speech sounds of a given language and
C. Its great color their function within the sound system of
D. Water flows on it that language
A. Phonetics
55. What’s the title of the text
B. syntax
A. Nature from designs
C. phonology
B. Designs from nature
D. morphology
C. Nature solution
D. Designs of biomimetics 61. Au bord de la mer, on peut prendre un bain
de soleil. Mais attention! Il ne faut pas
56. catch a sunburn (fill in the blank)
A. to get sunburned A. attraper un coup de soleil
B. to catch lightning bugs B. faire peur aux animaux
52. A 53. D 54. B 55. B 56. A 57. B 58. A 59. A 60. A 61. A
1.2 Approaches to the Study of Language 8
C. se noyer D. none of above

D. se promener 65. Animals have the ability to indicate or re-
62. The components of language fer to the
A. phonology, syntax, semantics, prag- A. Past

matics, phonetic B. Future
B. phonology, morphology, semantics, C. Present
syntax, pragmatics
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D. All of the above
C. phonetics, morphology, semantics,
syntax, pragmatics 66. What is being studied in Canada toim-
prove wind turbines?
D. none of above
A. Geckos
63. break a leg B. Whale flippers
A. to get a sunburn C. Lotus plants
B. to catch a fish D. Box fish
C. to fall overboard
67. Name the sources of human language
D. to break your leg
A. divine, natural sound, social interac-
64. The type of grammar that merely de- tion, physical adaptation, tool-making and
scribes the way in which speakers of a lan- genetic
guage actually use the language, follow- B. social interaction source (yo-he-ho
ing the mental rules they know is called theory)
A. Descriptive Grammar C. the pooh-pooh theory
B. Universal Grammar D. natural sound source (bow-wow the-
C. Prescriptive Grammar ory)
1.2 Approaches to the Study of Language

1. It is a method of foreign or second lan- B. Affective-Humanistic
guage teaching whichmakes use of trans- C. Direct
lation and grammar study as the main-
teaching and learning activities. D. Oral-Situational
A. Grammar Translation Method 3. It is methodologies of language learn-
B. Natural Method ing that emphasize understanding of lan-
guage rather than speaking.
C. Communicative Language Teaching
A. Communicative
D. none of above
B. Comprehension Based
2. This approach emphasizes on how valu- C. Affective-Humanistic
able the students are, and how they are
all loved and are all equal. D. Cognitive
A. Cognitive 4. Vocabulary is controlled at first (based on
62. B 63. D 64. A 65. C 66. B 67. A 1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A

1.2 Approaches to the Study of Language 9
frequency and usefulness) and then ex- B. Direct

panded C. Reading

A. Reading D. Comprehension Based
B. Grammar Translations
10. The teacher must be a native speaker or
C. Direct
have native-like proficiency in the target
D. Communication language.
5. The teacher’s role is primarily to facili- A. Communicative
tate communication and only secondarily B. Direct
to correct errors.
C. Reading
A. Oral Situational
D. Oral Situational
B. Communicative
11. It is a type of behaviorist habit-learning
C. Reading
theory. It adopts an inductive approach
D. Direct to the teaching of grammar.
6. The teacher does not need to have good A. Cognitive
oral proficiency in the target language. B. Affective-Humanistic
A. Oral Situational C. Oral-Situational
B. Reading D. Audiolingualism
C. Direct
12. There are some techniques as map draw-
D. Communicative ing, dictation, fill-in-the-blank exercise, or
7. It focuses on the development of oral paragraph writing in this method.
skills. A. Suggestopedia
A. Communicative B. Audio-Lingual
B. Oral-Situational C. Direct Method
C. Direct D. none of above
D. Audiolingualism
13. Listening is very important and viewed as
8. It is a teaching approach in which the the basic skill that will all speaking, read-
teacher wants anindividual student to ing and writing to develop spontaneously
work by themselves. over time given the right conditions.
A. Direct Teaching Approach A. Audiolingualism
B. Individualistic Approach B. Comprehension Based
C. Learner-Centered Approach C. Cognitive
D. Teacher Dominated Approach D. Direct
9. In this approach, students focus on iden- 14. It is a set of procedures, i.e., a system that
tifying meaning, understanding the text spells out rather precisely how to teach a
quickly, and reading actively. second or foreign language
A. Grammar Translation A. Approach
5. B 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. B 11. C 12. C 13. B 14. D

1.3 Language Analysis 10
B. Techniques 17. The result of this approach is usually an

inability on the part of the students to use
C. Strategy
the language for communication.
D. Method A. Grammar Translation
15. The teacher must be proficient only in the B. Direct
structures, vocabulary, etc. that he or she C. Reading
is teaching since learning activities and
D. Communicative
materials are carefully controlled.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Affective-Humanistic 18. It is based on the idea that learning lan-
guage successfully comes through having
B. Audiolingualism to communicate real meaning.
C. Reading A. Communicative
D. Direct B. Direct
C. Grammar Translation
16. A theory of learning sees second language
acquisition as a conscious and reasoned D. Reading
thinking process, involving the deliberate
19. Learners are engaged in meaningful and
use of learning strategies.
authentic language use.
A. Affective-Humanistic A. Audio Lingual
B. Reading B. Grammar Translation
C. Cognitive C. Communicative Learning Teaching
D. Direct D. none of above
1.3 Language Analysis

1. “Just like a moth drawn to a flame Oh, you 3. The appeal to ethics is also called
lured me in, I couldn’t sense the pain. “Is A. pathos
an example of
B. ethos
A. simile
C. logos
B. hyperbole
D. none of above
C. alliteration
D. imagery 4. a fence formed by a row of closely planted
shrubs or bushes
2. What do you think the meaning of this
A. Hedge
metaphor, “She is a walking dictionary”
is? B. Conversation analysis
A. Was is tired C. Coherence
B. She knows a lot of words D. Discourse
C. She was walks around the street 5. An aphasia associated with damage to the
D. none of above Broca’s area of the brain, demonstrated
15. B 16. C 17. A 18. A 19. C 1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A

by the impairment in producing under- 10. Aphasia resulting from damage to the
standable speech. Wernicke’s area of the frontal lobe. Af-
fects written and spoken language.

A. Aphasia
A. Slips of the ear
B. Wernicke’s aphasia
B. Conduction aphasia
C. Neurolinguistics
C. Wernicke’s aphasia
D. Broca’s aphasia
D. Wernicke’s area
6. Let us go then, you and I, While the
evening is spread out against the sky, Like 11. What Figurative Language gives non-
a patient etherized upon a table-T.S. Eliot, human things human traits?
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” A. Onomatopoeia
A. synaesthesia B. Personification
B. imagery C. Alliteration
C. metaphor D. Hyperbole
D. simile 12. Words that describe actions are
7. An advertisement that uses this will help A. Verbs
you see the facts and help you understand B. Modal verbs
why you need the product.
C. Adverbs
A. Pathos
D. Adjectives
B. ethos
13. The idiom, “Its raining cats and dogs”
C. Vamonos
means..
D. Logos
A. Its actually raining cats and dogs out-
8. Juxtaposition is side
A. The figurative comparison between B. It is raining

two unlike things C. Its raining really hard outside
B. Placing two things side by side, usually D. The weather is perfect
to show contrast
14. anecdote
C. oxymoron
A. straight out, candidly
D. a comparison between seemingly un-
B. put something on someone
like things
C. story told to make an impact
9. What type of Figurative Language does
D. treating all rivals equally
this define:Comparing 2 things using the
words like or as. 15. Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
A. Metaphor A. paradox
B. Simile B. chiasmus
C. Hyperbole C. hyperbole
D. Idiom D. irony
5. D 6. D 7. D 8. B 9. B 10. C 11. B 12. C 13. C 14. C 15. B 16. A

16. How often can tone shift throughout an ar- C. clouds are white
gument?
D. none of above
A. As often as the author deems neces-
sary 22. “Another turning point, a fork stuck in the
B. One to two times road./ Time grabs you by the wrist, di-
rects you where to go.”
C. Three or four times
A. hyperbole
D. Ten or less times
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B. personification
17. An author’s attitude toward the subject is
his or her C. allusion
A. point of view D. imagery

B. theme 23. How many marks are given for compari-
C. viewpoint son in Question 4?
D. purpose A. 6
18. A break in the flow of speech, using B. 4
sounds such as em and er C. 18
A. Analysis D. 8
B. Filled pause
C. Pause 24. I have a frog in my throat.This is an exam-
ple of:
D. Implicature
A. personification
19. Written or spoken communication or de-
B. metaphor
bate
A. Analysis C. alliteration
B. Filled pause D. idiom
C. Schema 25. What type of figurative language is a state-

D. Discourse ment that can’t be taken literally?
20. But you put on quite a show A. Hyperbole
A. simile B. Metaphor
B. metaphor C. Personification
C. personification D. Idiom
D. allusion
26. You should always
21. What is the meaning of the idiom “I can’t A. Fully agree with the statement
stop smiling. I’ve been on cloud nine all
day.”? B. Disagree with the statement.
A. you are really high C. Partially agree with the statement.
B. you feel joyful D. none of above
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27. When FDR says in his speech, “we must B. The rain hit the table and bounced off.
become like a trained and loyal army”
which rhetorical device is being used?

C. The rain soaked the patio.
A. rhetorical question
D. The rain watered the plants.
B. parallelism
C. restatement 33. This is an analysis of how the parts of an
argument work together to achieve a spe-
D. analogy cific purpose.
28. What type of Figurative Language is A. Synthesis
this:”When I saw her, I thought her head
B. Argument
was a apple”
C. Rhetorical analysis
A. Simile
B. Idiom D. Essay
C. Hyperbole 34. The little road says, Go, The little house
D. Metaphor says, Stay! This is an example of:
A. simile
29. Analyzing written or spoken language.
A. Implicature B. metaphor
B. Conversation C. personification
C. Discourse analysis D. hyperbole
D. Schema 35. When is your AP English Language test?
30. a writer’s distinctive use of langauge A. May 10thth at 2:00 PM
A. syntax B. May 20th at 2:00 PM
B. denotation C. May 36th at 4:00 PM
C. voice D. August 20th at 7:30 AM
D. loose sentece
36. a story within a story
31. Short and amusing or interesting account
A. Anecdote
depicting a real incident or person used to
support a speaker’s argument. B. Rhetorical analysis
A. Anecdote C. Requirement
B. Parallelism D. Rhetorical devices
C. Paradox
37. a momentary break in the vocal delivery
D. Concession of a speech
32. What is the meaning of this personifica- A. Cohesion
tion?”The raindrops danced on the table-
B. Implicature
top.”
C. Pause
A. Raindrops danced around on the table.

38. Which essays can you use second-person B. Language areas

pronouns (you, your)? C. Broca’s area
A. Synthesis (FRQ 1) D. localization view
B. Rhetorical Analysis (FRQ 2)
44. Inadvertent linguistic errors in what we
C. Argument (FRQ 3) say
D. None A. Slips of the ear
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39. The study of the relationship between lan- B. Wernicke’s area
guage and the brain
C. Slips of the tongue
A. Conduction aphasia
D. Conduction aphasia
B. Discourse analysis
45. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas usu-
C. Localization view
ally in parallel structure
D. Neurolinguistics
A. parallelism
40. What is a telegraphic sentence? B. antithesis
A. A sentence shorter than 5 words. C. modifier
B. A sentence longer than 5 words. D. anaphora
C. Central idea of a work of fiction or non-
46. The calm, peaceful water lapped the shore
fiction.
quietly as he sat on the beach reflecting
D. A verse line of four feet. on the day. The tone of the above passage
is:
41. A loose sentence
A. Indignant
A. main idea at the beginning
B. Depressed
B. main idea as the end
C. Serene
C. main idea in the middle
D. Careless
D. none of the above
47. Allusion is defined as
42. “Man Gordy from True Diary was a real-
life Einstein, I am telling ya. “Gordy can A. Two lines working as a unit
best be characterized based off the allu- B. A reference to a famous person, place,
sion up above as or event
A. Intelligent C. A form of wordplay with similar sound-
B. Arrogant ing sounds
C. Ditzy D. Words that involve one of the five
D. Remorseful senses
43. Controls language expression-an area of 48. What type of Figurative Language is
the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemi- this:“And it made a loud BANG as the pot
sphere, that directs the muscle move- hit the floor.”
ments involved in speech. A. Hyperbole
A. Wernicke’s area B. Onomatopoeia

C. Alliteration 54. Read the poem below:the drum by Nikki

D. Simile Giovannidaddy says the world isa drum
tight and hardand i told himi’m gonna beat-

49. Hearing a different message than what out my own rhythmThis poem is mostly an
was uttered example of
A. Neurolinguistics A. Simile
B. Broca’s area B. Metaphor

C. Hyperbole
C. Slips of the ear
D. none of above
D. Slips of the tongue
55. “His nose grew like Pinocchio’s with story
50. When I heard that my sister broke the after story from his “impressive” basket-
case of roses and didn’t admit it, I was ball game” What is the character doing
surprised because she’s usually such an based off the allusion to Pinocchio?
angel.
A. Crying
A. very naughty
B. Joking
B. likes to wear white C. Lying
C. is well-behaved D. Exaggerating
D. is mean
56. What type of Figurative Language is
51. AUDIENCE refers to. this:”The house looked like a mountain
next to me.”
A. Who wrote the article
A. Simile
B. Who published the article
B. Hyperbole
C. Who sponsored the article
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Who the article is intended for D. Idiom
52. a writer’s distinctive use of language cre- 57. A fallacy of argument in which claims,
ated through his diction, imagery, details, reasons, or warrants fail to connect log-
syntax, and tone ically.
A. syntax A. Ad hominem
B. denotation B. Non Sequitur
C. voice C. Faulty analogy
D. connotation D. Red herring
53. How many marks are available for Evalua- 58. What is context?
tion in your exam? A. A fact or opinion that serves as a foun-
dation for an argument
A. 12
B. An argument that has yet to be proven
B. 18
false
C. 6 C. The situation that brought about the
D. 10 need for the argument

D. The mode or medium of the argument 64. Connotation is a word’s

A. synonym
59. To contrast between what is stated explic-
itly and what is really meant B. emotional meaning
A. metaphor C. antonym
B. mood D. Literal, dictionary definition.
C. irony 65. My tongue is a dolphin passed out in an

elevator .-Jeffrey McDaniel, “Dear Amer-
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D. paradox
ica”
60. What is the following an example of?In A. simile
spite of heavy snow and cold tempera- B. metaphor
tures, the game continued.
C. personification
A. periodic sentence
D. irony
B. loose sentence
66. Students are sponges in the classroom.
C. anaphora
A. Students soak up water.
D. complex sentence
B. Students soak up knowledge.
61. The sticking together of particles of the C. The student is turning into a sponge.
same substance
D. none of above
A. Conversation analysis
67. What’s the meaning of this personifica-
B. Filled pause
tion?”The camera loves me!”
C. Cohesion A. Photography is one of my hobbies.
D. Implicature B. I own an expensive camera.
62. a brief reference to a famous person or C. Photos of me are always really good.
event-often from literature, history, Greek D. I like to visit art museums.
mythology, or the Bible. Example:“He was
a real Romeo with the ladies.” 68. Write in the tense when rhetorically
analyzing a text.
A. allusion
A. past
B. alliteration
B. present
C. metaphor
C. future
D. hyperbole
D. none of above
63. What type of Figurative Language 69. What type of Figurative Language does
does this define:An extreme over- this define:The same sound at the start of
exaggeration three or more words.
A. Idiom A. Onomatopoeia
B. Hyperbole B. Alliteration
C. Metaphor C. Personification
D. Personification D. Idiom

70. the belief that specific aspects of linguistic C. lying

ability have specific locations in the brain D. synechdoche

A. Language areas
76. What are the analytical questions in your
B. Wernicke’s area English Language exam?
C. Conduction aphasia A. Paper 1 Q3, Paper 2 Q2 and Q3.
D. Localization view B. Paper 1 Q2 and Q3, Paper 2 Q2 and Q3
71. A comparison of two seemingly unlike

C. Paper 1 Q3, Paper 2 Q3
things using “like” or “as”
D. none of above
A. alliteration
B. simile 77. quality of a piece of writing in which all the
parts contribute to the development of the
C. metaphor central idea, theme, or organizing princi-
D. personification ple
A. Discourse
72. This fallacy presents an issue in terms of
exaggerated threats or dangers. B. Coherence
A. Scare tactics C. Schema

D. Cohesion
B. Ad Hominem
C. Bandwagon 78. What Figurative Language IS NOT in this
sentence?” The bang from the vase hit-
D. Dogmatism ting the ground was as loud as a gunshot”
73. Which of the following is not a structural A. Simile
feature? B. Metaphor
A. Juxtaposition C. Onomatopoeia
B. Rhetorical Questions D. none of above
C. Repetition 79. What is rhetoric?
D. Onomatopoeia A. Propagandizing information to add
bias
74. This fallacy occurs when a complicated
issue is misrepresented as offering only B. Empty words or phrases, cliched lan-
two possible alternatives. guage
A. Scare tactics C. Politicizing and polarizing information,

such as in a debate
B. Slippery slope
D. The art of effective or persuasive
C. Either or choices speaking or writing
D. Red herring 80. “I’d catch a grenade for ya.”
75. Example:He’s certainly not short.(when A. Metaphor
describing a man who is 6’8”) B. Simile
A. understatement C. Hyperbole
B. hyperbole D. Personification

81. “When we were younger and free, I’ve for- 86. Controls language reception-a brain area
gotten how it felt before the world fell at involved in language comprehension and
our feet.” Is an example of expression; usually in the left temporal
lobe
A. allusion
A. Neurolinguistics
B. simile
B. Broca’s area
C. personification
C. Aphasia
D. imagery
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D. Wernicke’s area
82. A detailed examination of the elements or
structure of something. 87. the study of how participants in social in-
teraction recognize and produce coherent
A. Conversation conversation
B. Analysis A. Conversation analysis
C. Hedge B. Discourse analysis
D. Schema C. Conversation
83. What mood is best created by the sarcas- D. Pause

tic tone below:Your two hour presentation
88. indirect, less offensive way of saying
was as exciting as watching paint dry.
something that is considered unpleasant
A. An uplifting mood
A. Euphemism
B. A belittling mood
B. Abase
C. An enlightening mood
C. Kudos
D. A congratulatory mood
D. Antimetabole
84. If a songwriter references a famous nar- 89. The idiom “Every cloud has a silver lining”
rative, like a bible story, fairy tale, or a means..
historical event, then it is called:
A. Every cloud is outlined in silver
A. allusion
B. It was a great movie with Jennifer
B. illusion Lawrence
C. delusion C. Even difficult days will turn out for the
D. confusion better
D. Move on with life
85. The assumption that the speaker intends
to say something concise, truthful, rele- 90. This is a term for an appeal to credibility
vant, and unambiguous. (NOT ethics)
A. Turn-taking A. Ethos
B. Co-operative principle B. Pathos
C. Discourse C. Logos
D. Coherence D. Legos

91. The building was pretty ugly and a little big C. simile
for its surroundings.-John Steinbeck D. metaphor

A. paradox
97. This is the term for setting parameters to
B. oxymoron
an argument, acknowledging that the is-
C. irony sue is not black or white but instead has
D. trope limitations and complexities.
92. This includes the audience, text, context, A. Defend

and speaker. B. Challenge
A. Rhetorical problem C. Qualify
B. Rhetorical analysis D. Disagree
C. Rhetorical situation
98. About how long should you study and seek
D. Rhetorical context to understand the prompt?
93. “Hello from the other side I must have A. 5 minutes
called a thousand times. “Is an example
B. 3 minutes
of
C. 0 minutes
A. hyperbole
B. symbols D. I have to read the prompt?
C. onomatopoeia 99. What is meant by the text details?

D. metaphor A. Title, author, font size, colour
94. inability to speak B. Title, tone, image, publication,
A. Aphasia C. Title, persuasive technique, bolded
B. Broca’s aphasia font, language
C. Wernicke’s aphasia D. Title, author, date, publication
D. Conduction aphasia 100. the construction of sentences; the ar-
rangement of words in sentences
95. What two things are being compared in
the following metaphor?The crab was a A. voice
dancing pair of scissors, clicking across B. connotation
the sand.
C. logos
A. Crab and Sand
D. syntax
B. Crab and dancing scissors
C. Scissors and sand 101. Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou
D. Dancing and sand. Romeo?
A. Bombastic Language
96. ‘You are like a ray of sunshine!’ is an ex-
ample of: B. Archaic Diction
A. onomatopoeia C. Colloquialism
B. alliteration D. Epigram

102. “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping 107. What type of Figurative Language is
a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and this:”It was raining cats and dogs!”
waiting for the echo.” A. Onomatopoeia
A. Analogy B. Idiom
B. Anaphora C. Metaphor
C. Antithesis D. Hyperbole
D. Allusion
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108. Repetition of a word or phrase at begin-
103. A comparison of two seemingly unlike ning of multiple clauses
things A. Repetition
A. simile B. Alliteration
B. metaphor C. Antithesis
C. personification D. Anaphora
D. hyperbole 109. “The snow glows white on the mountain
tonight insideCouldn’t keep it in, heaven
104. Appeal to fear is
knows I tried!”Is an example of
A. never used in a logical argument
A. imagery
B. is not allowed in newspaper articles
B. metaphor
C. a persuasive technique C. allitertation
D. is rarely used in persuasive writing D. allusion
105. Her eyes opened wide, and she gave him 110. The informal exchange of ideas by spo-
a wild look, panicked about what he would ken words
do next. The tone in the above passage
is? A. Conversation analysis
A. Frantic B. Conversation
C. Turn-taking
B. Objective
D. Filled pause
C. Enthusiastic
D. Furious 111. About how long should you spend read-
ing and planning out your essay?
106. the intentional emphasis on word or- A. 7 minutes
der/structure of a sentence or phrase; to
analyze syntax one can consider sentence B. 0 minutes
form and structure, repetition, and/or C. 2 minutes
punctuation.
D. I have to read the passage?
A. syntax
112. Life is a roller coaster. What does this
B. anaphora
metaphor mean?
C. repetition
A. They have a new roller coaster at
D. loose/periodic sentence Darien Lake

B. You’re in danger when you’re on a 118. Refers to the feelings and associations
roller coaster created by a word.

C. Life has ups and downs A. synonym
D. I shouldn’t ride roller coasters
B. denotation
113. An obvious exaggeration to make a point C. connotation
or add excitement
D. acronym
A. consonance
B. repetition 119. I had to wait in the station for ten days-
C. hyperbole an eternity .-Joseph Conrad, Heart of
D. onomatopoeia Darkness
114. logic, reasoning A. litotes
A. exposition B. paradox
B. tone C. hyperbole
C. logos D. hypotaxis
D. ethos
120. The appeal to emotion is also called
115. An implied meaning that has to be in-
ferred as a result of a conversational A. pathos
maxim being broken
B. logos
A. Implicature
C. ethos
B. Pause
C. Analysis D. none of above
D. conversation analysis 121. That cat was a bolt of lightning.

116. What’s the meaning of this simile?”My A. My cat is slow.
mom can be as fiery as a volcano when
I don’t do my chores on time.” B. My cat was struck by lightning.
A. Her hair is red. C. My cat is really fast.
B. She talks really loudly. D. none of above
C. She gets really angry.
D. She spits when she talks. 122. When writing a language analysis, it is
important to analyse and understand the
117. Don’t go chasing waterfalls/ Please stick entire situation in which a piece of writ-
to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used ing takes place (the time, place, etc.), also
to/ I know that you’re gonna have it your known as
way or nothing at all
A. background info
A. metaphor
B. context
B. personification
C. allusion C. issue
D. simile D. problem

123. This fallacy exaggerates the possibility 128. A CONTENTION is

that a relatively inconsequential action to- A. Not required when responding to an is-
day will have serious consequences in the sue
future.
B. Is a persuasive technique used to sup-
A. Dogmatism port an argument
B. Either or choices C. Always set a clear Tone for the re-
C. Red herring sponse
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D. Slippery slope D. Is the writer’s overall argument in re-
sponse to an issue.
124. Diction is the literary term that means
129. Located in a large area surrounding the
A. The connections we have with words left (or language-dominant) lateral sulcus
B. An author’s choice of words A. Language areas
C. The definition of words B. Wernicke’s area
D. The common way of speaking with C. Neurolinguistics

friends D. Localization view
125. rhetorical appeal concerned with how to 130. Denotation is a word’s

reach an audience emotionally A. Literal, dictionary definition
A. pathos B. Emotional meaning
B. ethos C. synonym
C. tone D. antonym
D. syntax 131. This is the term for an answer that chal-
lenges or refutes a the counterargument.
126. The noun or pronoun of a following pro-
noun refers back to is a A. Disagreement
B. Rebuttal
A. Modifier
C. Argument
B. Antecedent
D. Claim
C. Parallelism
D. Antithesis
this:”Sharks share seashells sold by
127. In a persuasive text, what is the author’s Sally”
“claim?” A. Simile
A. His or her position on the problem or B. Tongue Twister
issue C. Alliteration
B. His or her proof D. Metaphor
C. Winning the argument
D. The evidence will show if he or she is this:”The house was bigger than the
right or wrong. sun!”

A. Simile B. Turn-taking
B. Hyperbole C. Hedge

C. Metaphor D. Co-operative principle
D. Idiom
139. Giving human qualities to non-living ob-
134. The inability to conduct between listen- jects
ing and speaking is disrupted
A. personification
A. Conduction aphasia
B. metaphor
B. Broca’s area
C. simile
C. Slips of the tongue
D. hyperbole
D. Wernicke’s aphasia
140. An author’s word choice is also called
135. a concept or framework that organizes
and interprets information
A. Analysis A. prose
B. Co-operative principle B. syntax

C. Pause C. diction
D. Schema D. allusion
136. The computer in our classroom is a di- 141. New, and a bit alarming Who’d have ever
nosaur. thought that this could be? True, that he’s
A. The computer is old. no Prince Charming But there’s something
in him that I simply didn’t see-“Something
B. The computer is scary.
There” Beauty and the Beast
C. The computer is brand new.
A. litotes
D. none of above
B. irony
137. “The raindrops danced on the tabletop.” C. sarcasm
The kind of figurative language used here
is D. paradox
A. alliteration 142. What type of Figurative Language is
B. simile this:”The harsh winds were pushing me
C. personification back.”
D. idiom A. Hyperbole
B. Simile
138. When one speaker hands over speaking
to another person C. Personification
A. Pause D. Metaphor

2. Phonetics and Phonology
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2.1 Articulatory Phonetics
1. How many pure vowels are there in En- 5. A vowel which remains constant and does
glish? not glide.
A. 13 A. monopthong
B. 12
B. pure vowel or monopthong
C. 11
D. none of above C. Diphthong
2. The word “ interesting” has: sounds. D. none of above
A. 8
6. Approximants [w] and [j] are like vow-
B. 9 els because
C. 10
A. they are pronoinced without stricture
D. none of above
B. they are voiceless
3. One of the most active articulators:
C. they are is pronounced differently in
A. Tongue
various accents of English
B. Alveolar ridge
D. none of above
C. Palate
D. none of above 7. The parts of the vocal tract that are re-
4. Voiced sounds are produced when the vo- sponsible for soundproduction are called
cal folds are A. articulatory phonetics
A. wide apart
B. articulators
B. narrow
C. tightly closed C. oral cavity

2.1 Articulatory Phonetics 25
8. A speech sound pronounced without any C. Larynx

stricture in the vocal tract is called D. none of above

A. a vowel
e is a:
B. a consonant
A. mid front vowel
C. a suprasegment
B. low central vowel
D. none of above
C. high central vowel
9. The distinc units of sounds in a specified
D. none of above
language:
A. phoneme 14. Which is the correct word?
B. grapheme A. Walk
C. tropheme B. Work
D. none of above C. Berk
10. It is not the smallest unit of sound, it is D. none of above

the smallest meaningul contrastive unit in
15. The air passes through the oral cavity or
a writing system.
the nasalcavity during the
A. phoneme
A. initiation process
B. phone
B. phonation process
C. grapheme
C. oro-nasal process
D. none of above
D. articulation process
11. A sound pronounced simultaneously (at
the same time as) with the following f is a:
vowel is typically A. voiced labiodental fricative
A. [z] B. voiceless dental fricative
B. [t] C. voiceless labiodental fricative
C. [h] D. none of above
D. none of above
16. A glide from one vocalic position to an-
12. How many major diphthongs are there in other produces a sound called
English? A. a pure vowel
A. 3 B. a diphthong
B. 7 C. a plosive
C. 2 D. none of above
D. none of above
17. The consonants [j] and [w] are conso-
13. When it is raised in speech, the air cannot nants and not vowels because
escape. A. they occur only before vowel
A. Velum phonemes, as in yes, wet
B. Hard palate B. They are voiced

2.2 Phonetics 26
C. the tongue never makes contact with 23. How many diphthongs are there in En-
any part of the palate glish?
D. none of above A. 8
18. /ayz/ in spelling is: B. 7
A. eyes C. 2
B. ice D. none of above
C. None of the above
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24. A sound pronounced with the air escaping
D. none of above through a small passage, making a hissing
sound is called
19. is a combination of two adjacent vowel
sounds within the same syllable. A. a nasal
A. Monopthong B. a lateral
B. Diphtong C. a fricative
C. Consonant D. none of above
D. none of above
25. In the articulation of plosives, the articu-
20. The final sound of a vowel and consonant lators form a stricture during the
is created during the A. closing phase
A. initiation process B. compression phase
B. phonation process C. release phase
C. oro-nasal process
D. post-release phase
D. articulation process
26. /ays/ in spelling is:
21. Affricates are different from plosives in
that A. eyes
A. they are voiced B. ice
B. they don’t end with a plosion C. None of the above
C. they begin with a complete stricture D. none of above
D. none of above 27. The location of the narrowest part of the
22. The word “ car” has sound. vocal tract in producing a sound is called
A. 3 A. place of articulation
B. 4 B. manner of articulation
C. 1 C. voicing
2.2 Phonetics

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1. The consonant which is produced when 6. WICH WORDS ARE THE CONTENT
the tongue touches the soft palate is WORDS?YOU MUST CALL THE POLICE OF-
called FICER BECAUSE THE THIEF MAY ESCAPE.

A. Bilabial A. YOU-CALL-POLICE OFFICER-THIEF
B. Glottal B. CALL-POLICE OFFICER-THIEF-ESCAPE
C. Velar
C. MUST-CALL-POLICE OFFICER-THIEF
D. Palatal
D. CALL-POLICEOFFICER-THIEF
2. Which parameter of speech sound clas-
sification refers to pulmonic vs. non- 7. What is the most obvious and largest car-
pulmonic? tilage?
A. Arytenoid.
A. Vibration of the vocal cords
B. Cricoid.
B. Direction of flow of air
C. Thyroid.
C. Source of energy
D. none of above
D. Sopraglottal cavity
8. The phoneme /i:/ is in the words ‘immedi-
3. what is a vowel? ately’, ‘secret’, and ‘degree’. Which word
A. A syllabic speech sound pronounced does not include the /i:/ sound?
without any stricture in the vocal tract A. increase
B. A syllabic speech sound pronounced in B. peak
a variety of ways C. believe
C. A syllabic speech sound that can D. competition
change accent
9. The study of words and their structure
D. none of above
A. semantics
4. Which letter is silent in knee, know, and
B. psycholinguistics
knot?
C. morphology
A. N
D. dialectology
B. T
10. The systems and patterns of sounds is
C. O
A. phonetics
D. K
B. articulatory phonetics
5. What is irony? C. phonemes
A. Using language to signal attitude other D. auditory phonetics
than what has been literally said.
11. Divide “butter” into syllables:
B. Using words that are context bound.
A. but-ter
C. A mixture of vague language and hu-
mour. B. bu-tter
D. The process of deriving implied mean- C. butter
ings. D. butte-r

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12. Which syllable is usually stressed 18. Sounds in language can be divided into
A. PHOtographer two groups: and .
B. phoTOgrapher A. vowels and consonant
C. photograPHER B. ear and mouth
D. photoGRApher C. syllables and word
D. syllable and phoneme
13. Choose the word with the underlined part
pronounced differently from that of the 19. focuses on the perception of sounds
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others (-t/-d)A. washed B. touched C. or the way in which sounds are heard and
dried D. dipped interpreted.
A. A A. sound of speech
B. B B. articulatory phonetics
C. C C. acoustic phonetics
D. D D. auditory phonetics
14. Pure vowels are again divided into & 20. Which word does not have two voiced con-
sonants?
A. Diphthongs and Vowel glides A. Big
B. Vowel glides and short vowels B. Tall
C. Long vowels and Diphthongs C. Side
D. Long vowels and short vowels D. none of above
15. What are the manner of articulation of the 21. Free morpheme
/f/ and /v/ sounds: A. cannot stand alone
A. Fricatives B. can stand alone
B. Alveolar C. can be a prefix
C. Plosives D. can be a suffix
D. Labiodental
22. The study of the sounds of a human
16. When a phoneme within a word is deleted, speech refers to:
this phenomenon is called: A. Phonetics
A. elision B. Semantics
B. assimilation C. Acoustics
C. linking D. Linguistics
D. reduction
23. In linguistics, what is a phone?
17. The word ‘seldom’ has A. non-verbal speech sound or gestures
A. a) Two syllables with no stress B. non-distinct speech sound or gestures
B. two syllables with stress on both
C. two syllables with stress on first C. any distinct speech sound or gesture
D. two syllables with stress on second D. non-uniques speech sound or gesture

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24. How many syllables are there in the word 30. Which letter is silent in solemn and col-
“STRONG”? umn?

A. 1 A. L
B. 2 B. M
C. 3
C. N
D. 4
D. O
25. What is the phonetic notation system used
to represent all of the phones in human 31. Which word is stressed differently from
speech? the others?A. selection B. resident C. fes-
A. IPI tival D. memory
B. API A. A
C. IPA B. B
D. APA C. C
26. i: D. D
A. idiot
32. Which part of speech commonly does not
B. mean
have a weak form?
C. lip
A. article
D. none of above
B. preposition
27. Which letter is silent in ghost, heir, and
hour? C. pronouns
A. G D. noun
B. R
33. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your an-
C. H swer sheet to indicate the word whose un-
D. E derlined part differs from the other three
in pronunciation
28. Which word’s phonemes are pronounced
fully? A. Epidemic
A. Palm B. Illegal
B. Small C. Education
C. Corps D. Competitor
D. Island
34. What is a triphthong?
29. The number of determines the number
of syllables in a word. A. The union of 2 vowels
A. Vowels B. One vowel
B. Consonants C. a union of three vowels (letters or
C. Letters sounds) pronounced in one syllable

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35. Nasalization in some cases-vowels may C. Auxiliary verbs and determiners

take on the due to the phonemic en- D. Adverbs
vironment of a word.
A. nasal sounds 41. Which of these words sounds differently?
B. phonemic environment A. Now
C. phonemic enviornment B. Know
D. nasal environment C. How
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36. In the sentence “The book is about pro- D. Cow
nunciation.”, how many times does the 42. Which of the following consonants are
schwa sound occur? fricative?
A. 4
A. /t/, /d/
B. 3
B. /s/, /z/
C. 1
C. /m/, /n/
D. 2
D. /k/, /g/
37. Which letter is silent in comb, limb, and
lamb? 43. A phoneme is:
A. M A. A minimal unit of stress in a language.

B. B
B. A minimal unit of lexical meaning in a
C. L language.
D. P
C. A minimal unit of a grammatical mean-
38. What is an allophone? ing in a language.
A. The variants of a phoneme D. A minimal unit of sound in a language.
B. The repetition of the sounds 44. Affirmative statements such as “You’d
C. Making words have to be pretty generous to give 1.3 mil-
lion to someone that you hardly know” use
D. A pronunciation mistake
which type of intonation model?
39. function of intonation allows us to ex- A. Rise-fall
press emotions:interest, surprise, doubt,
etc. B. Falling
A. Attitudial C. Fall-rise
B. Grammatical D. Rising
C. Accentual 45. In the word “overact, “ the prefix “over”
D. Discourse means
A. above
40. In English, the following are “Function”
words: B. too much
A. Nouns and lexical verbs C. among
B. Adjectives D. large

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46. The consonant sound standing before the C. Metaphor

peak is called: D. Consonance

A. coda
52. Differences in Grammar and Pronuncia-
B. onset
tion within a language
C. nuclear
A. Transcription
D. peak
B. Dialects
47. A sound produced that requires the partic- C. Speech
ipation of one or both lips.
D. none of above
A. Bilabial
B. Glottal 53. What is NOT an example of a content
word?
C. Labiodental
A. a noun
D. Interdental
B. a pronoun
48. Which of the following does not fall in the
C. a verb
category of “determiner”?
D. an adverb
A. This
B. Their 54. sounds are those sounds made by the
C. Those articulation of the lips against each other.
D. Tall A. Alveolar
B. Glottal
49. are produced by a vocal tract constric-
tions that modify the breath stream com- C. Palatal
ing from the larynx. D. Bilabial
A. vowels
55. .... is the study or description of the
B. consanants distinctive sound units of a language and
C. speech sounds their relationship to one another.
D. word articulation A. A-Phonetics
50. Segments that are articulated while the B. B-Phonology

air is issuing forth are called: C. C-Semantics
A. Ingressive D. D-Pragmatics
B. Pulmonic
56. Which of the following levels is closely re-
C. Non-pulmonic lated to the brain as well as motor and
D. Egressive sensory nerves in the speech chain?
A. Linguistic
51. Which of the following is not related to
phonology? B. Physiological
A. Rhyme C. Acoustic
B. Onomatopoeia D. none of above

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57. Indicate the stressed syllable in the word 63. Is the use of phonetic symbols to repre-
“relationship”? sent speech sounds.
A. 3 A. Phonetics
B. 4 B. IPA
C. 2
C. Phonetic transcription
D. 1
D. none of above
58. WHICH WORD HAS A SHORT VOWEL
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SOUND? 64. In “Sally knows Peter, doesn’t she?”, if
A. star the speaker is just chatting (not checking)
what type of intonation will be used for the
B. ball
question tag?
C. dish
A. Rising
D. shoot
B. Falling
59. Which of the following words contains a
centering diphthong? C. Fall-rise
A. near D. Rise-fall
B. pay
65. What is the only phonetic symbol with a
C. stay name?
D. throw A. Schwe
60. Resonance is associated with which of B. Schwa
these?
C. Schwi
A. diphthongs
D. Schwo
B. onglide
C. nasalization 66. Which word is stressed differently from
D. destination the others? A. appear B. unite C. follow
D. upset
61. One of the following is NOT a branch of
Phonetics: A. A
A. Articulatory Phonetics B. B
B. Phonetic transcription C. C
C. Acoustic Phonetics D. D
D. Auditory Phonetics
67. Glottal sounds are those sounds made at
62. Choose the word whose stress position is the
different from that of the others:
A. hard palate
A. Open
B. Happen B. velum
C. Offer C. alveolar ridge

D. Begin D. glottis

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68. Main traditional branches of Phonetics: 74. Which of these are Grice’s maxims?
A. articulatory phonetics A. Relevance, Manner, Quantity, Quality

B. acoustic phonetics B. Relevance, Reference, Quantity, Qual-
ity
C. auditory phonetics
C. Reference, Manner, Quantity, Quality
D. all answers are correct
D. Relevance, Matter, Quantity, Quality
69. Which cannot occur in stressed open syl-
75. The word phonetics is
lables?
A. Monosyllabic
A. tense vowels
B. Disyllabic
B. lax vowels
C. Polysyllabic
C. long vowels
D. none of above
D. short vowels
76. What is a minimal pair?
70. What happens with the consonants which A. Phonemes and allophones
are not considered either lenis nor for-
B. Phonetics and phonology
tis?
C. The variants of a phoneme
A. They are neither voiced nor voiceless.
D. Pairs of words that have one phonemic
B. They belong to the no opposition group. change between them
77. Which of these words has a different
C. They do not belong to any category.
sound?
D. none of above
A. Cheese
71. WHICH VOWEL SOUND IS DIFFERENT? B. Ship
A. pear C. Machine
B. fear D. Share
C. there 78. In the sentence “The fat man ate food, “
D. stare which part is the noun phrase?
A. Man
72. Choose the word with a different sound.
B. Ate
A. receipt C. The fat man
B. niece D. Ate food
C. pretty
79. Choose the word with the underlined
D. key part pronounced differently from that of
the others (i/e)A. refill B. representative
73. is a unit of sound. C.reduce D. reuse
A. Phonetics A. A
B. Strong form B. B
C. Syllable C. C
D. none of above D. D

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80. is the greater prominence which is 86. Identifiy the second sound in CUT
given to one or more words in a sentence A. Diphthong
as compared with others.
B. Pure vowel
A. Speech melody
C. Consonant
B. Stress in speech
D. Cardinal vowel
C. The tempo of speech
D. Rhythm 87. A phonological segment that can be pho-
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netically predicted by a rule-/b/ in bit and
81. A voiced and a voiceless sound differ in /p/ in pit.
A. Phonetics
A. loudness
B. Phonology
B. position
C. Phoneme
C. length
D. none of above
D. vibration
88. Identify the number of bound morphemes
82. Upper lip, Palate, Uvula ara all part of the in the text:Mary has two little sisters who
are always the loudest when crying.
A. throat A. 1
B. lips B. 2
C. mouth
C. 3
D. none of above
D. 4
83. Raw-Law Red-LedAre examples of
89. How many syllables in birthday?
A. Consonants
A. 1
B. Minimal pairs
B. 2
C. Allophones
C. 3
D. none of above
D. 4
84. Is always written between in two slashes
// 90. the study of sound systems of languages
A. Phoneme A. Phonetics
B. Vowel sound B. Phonology
C. Dipthongs C. Phoneme
85. Physical properties of sound production 91. Methods of discriminating sound(Binary, 5

(frequency, amplitude, duration) way scoring, and transcription)
A. Articulatory Phonetics A. System Complexity
B. Acoustic Phonetics B. Linguistic Complexity
C. Perceptual Phonetics C. Dialects

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92. In the following:“Wait-You’re breaking C. purpose

up.” and “Wait ! You’re breaking up?!”, D. aloud
which sentence deals with a divorce?

A. Neither sentence 98. vowel sounds are the ones in the pro-
duction of which the lips are drawn to-
B. Both sentences gether so that the opening between them
C. The first sentence is more or less round.
D. The second sentence A. Rounded
B. Unrounded
93. “The division of speech into units;
highlighting specific words, vowels or C. Long
syllables.”-This is a definition of: D. Short
A. Prosody
99. In the following sentence, “I didn’t say we
B. Phonetics should kill him.”, which word should be
C. Intonation stressed in order to convey the meaning
“I only meant to frighten him.”?
D. Stress
A. we
94. In the English language inflectional mor- B. didn’t
phemes can be
C. say
A. Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes
D. kill
B. Prefixes, Suffixes
100. Choose the best description for the first
C. Suffixes only
sound in the American pronunciation of
D. Infixes only the word ‘teeth.’
95. What is retroflexion and rhotacization? A. ALVEOLAR
A. vowels B. VELAR
B. monothongs with r coloring C. LABIODENTAL
C. vowels w r coloring D. ALVEOLARPALATAL
D. words with r coloring 101. “The music of the language:rythhm, ac-

cent, intonation, tone, stress. The
96. Syllables have an element called rhyme. speaker’s emotions, irony, sarcasm, etc.”
Rhyme is made of two elements, which This is a definition of:
are they?
A. Phonetics
A. Coda and onset
B. Stress
B. Onset and nucleus
C. Intonation
C. Nucleus and coda
D. Prosody
102. The study of structure and function of
97. An example of a tense vowel is speech sounds in a language
A. had A. Morphology
B. look B. Phonology

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C. Semantics 108. Why is the phoneme important?

D. none of above A. So that the words do not change their
meaning
103. The vocal folds are located in the B. So that we give order to our sentences
A. Epiglotis.
B. Larynx. C. So we can learn to read
C. Pharynx. D. To write vowels well
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D. none of above 109. The primary way the shape of the vocal
tract is changed is with the
104. Phonetics as a Branch of A. vocal tract
A. Lexicology B. vocal cords
B. Grammar C. tongue
C. Linguistics D. tongue position
D. Science 110. RP is used in
A. BBC
105. The phoneme /u:/ is in the words ‘boot’,
‘moon’, and ‘Peru’. Which word does not B. AIR
include the /u:/ sound? C. Doordarshan
A. two D. none of above
B. include 111. Choose the words whose underlined part
C. food is pronounced differently from that of the
others in each group.
D. found
A. confident
106. Which word contains a syllabic conso- B. kind
nant? C. nice
A. neat D. reliable
B. seat
112. Find out the tail:it was perfect
C. run A. It
D. little B. Was
107. Which list has all words with inflectional C. Per
morphology? D. Fect
A. elements, linked, ordering, Persians, 113. Which word is stressed differently from
killed the others?A. elevate B. deposit C. ade-
B. elements, linked, ordering, unkind, quate D. minimize
killed A. A
C. elements, linked, ordering, have, killed B. B
C. C
D. elements, linked, ordering, tend, killed D. D

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114. Which letter is silent in raspberry and C. These girls love those dogs.
cupboard? D. none of above

A. P
120. Variation in the production of the /k/
B. B
sound resulted in the concept of
C. S
A. diphthongs
D. R
B. Phoneme
115. Identify the word that does not have /a:/ C. Allophones
sound.
D. none of above
A. Park
B. castle 121. ” A human speech sound produced when
the breath is at least partly obstructed (by
C. dance the teeth, tongue, or lips)”-This is a defi-
D. arrow nition of:
116. Phonetics is also conceived as the of A. Vowel

the language. B. Phoneme
A. mechanics C. Morpheme
B. philosophy D. Consonant
C. understanding
122. how many consonant sounds do we have
D. interpretation in English?
117. Which of the following syllables is an A. 20
open syllable? B. 24
A. meet
C. 27
B. reach
D. none of above
C. do
123. Which of this sentences contains a word
D. sit
with the nasal soun /n/?
118. It is one of the features used to describe A. She loves cheese.
consonants.
B. I like really like the park.
A. Voicing
C. My mom is sick so we will take her to
B. Frontness the hospital.
C. Backness D. We ran 10 miles yesterday.
D. Neutrality
124. How do you say the word “banana”?
119. Which sentence has just the sound /z/ in
A. BAnana
their words?
B. baNAna
A. Stella and Marcos are a nice students.
C. banaNA
B. This zoo doesn’t open on Thursdays. D. BANANA

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125. Choose the word that has the underlined B. Grammatical

part pronounced differently from that of C. Accentual
the others.
D. Discourse
A. early
131. /i:/ is a/an vowel.
B. my
A. open front unrounded
C. usually
B. open central unrounded
D. city
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C. close front unrounded
126. Diachronic Linguistics D. close back unrounded
A. Presents an account of the language
as it is at some particular point in time. 132. The vocal folds are
A. Two tiny bones located in the larinx
B. Traces the historical development of
whic are covered with cartilages.
the language and records
B. Two ligaments which are covered with
C. Studies the chronicles of a given lan-
mucous membrane.
guage.
C. Three cartilages located in the Phar-
D. none of above
ynx.
127. Oil is an example of D. none of above
A. Diphtongs 133. Which word is stressed differently from
B. Phoneme the others? A. feeling B. happen C. recy-
C. Vowel sound cle D. package
D. none of above A. A
B. B
128. What does the word “phone” means?
C. C
A. science
D. D
B. nothing
134. The sounds of English are made us-
C. sound
ing air on its way out from the lungs.
D. speech lungs-trachea-larynx-vocal cord-pharynx,
and escapes via either
129. It is concerned with describing the
speech sounds that occur in the lan- A. oral and sound wave
guages of the world. B. Nasal and sound wave
A. Phonology C. phonemes
B. Speaking D. oral and nasal cavity
C. Phonetic transcription 135. A variant of a morpheme that does not
D. None of the above change its identity
A. allomorph
130. function of intonation can signal to
the listener what is to be taken as “new” B. allophone
and what is “given” information C. allotted
A. Attitudial D. alloy

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136. What do speech organs do? C. who

A. speech organs produce the sounds of D. when

language
B. speech organs prevent the sounds of 142. What is presupposition?
language A. Something you don’t believe
C. speech organs change the sounds of B. Something you believe regardless
language
C. Something you believe without having
D. none of above any proof
137. A phonological rule whereby a sound is D. Something you would never believe
made similar to a neighboring sound is re-
ferred to as 143. Which word contains a diphthong?
A. Metathesis A. Music
B. Dissimilation B. Male
C. Elision C. Meat
D. Assimilation D. none of above
138. Perception and Production of speech
sounds 144. The phoneme /u:/ is in the words ‘sham-
poo’, ‘soon’, and ‘blue’. Which word does
A. Transcription not include the /u:/ sound?
B. Phonetics A. root
C. Dialects
B. tooth
D. none of above
C. suite
139. Choose the word with 2 syllables: D. who
A. love
B. ship 145. Which of the following criteria is NOT
used to classify consonant sounds?
C. laugh
A. manner of articulation
D. city
B. place of articulation
140. In the English language derivational mor-
C. voicing
phemes can be
A. Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes D. lip rounding
B. Prefixes, Suffixes 146. Which word is stressed differently from
C. Suffixes only the others? A. delight B. prefer C. eraser
D. fabric
D. Infixes only
A. A
141. Which of the following words has the
glottal consonant? B. B
A. honor C. C
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147. How many vowels in English 153. The study of human speech sounds in a
A. 5 language that form systematized patterns
is called:
B. 6
A. Phonoaudiology
C. 7
B. Phonetics
D. 8
C. Phonology
148. Identification of sound segments that D. none of above
have linguistic significance in a language
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A. Phonetic Transcription 154. What is the term for a new word?
B. Phonemic transcription A. Derivation
C. Morphemic Transcription B. Etymology
D. none of above C. Neologism
D. Newologism
149. Choose the word with the underlined
part pronounced differently from that of 155. can end stressed open syllables.
the others (t/d). A. pressed B.used C. A. lax vowels
laughed D. mixed
B. tense vowels
A. A
C. short vowels
B. B
D. long vowels
C. C
D. D 156. Which of these letters has the nasal
sound /n/?
150. It is a contrastive or distinctive sound A. Matter
category that distinguishes words from
each other. B. Homework
A. Phonemic C. Gym
B. Phonology D. Mansion
C. Phonetics 157. A consonant sound produced by obstruct-

D. Phoneme ing airflow in the vocal tract or, more pre-
cisely, the glottis.
151. Which set of words is a minimal pair? A. Bilabial
A. These-those B. Alveolar
B. Sink-single C. Glottal
C. Their-there D. Labiodental
D. none of above
158. Which of the words below have nasal
152. How are vowels described? sounds?
A. soft sounds A. thing
B. vocal frequency B. comb
C. tongue position C. midnight
D. resting position D. all of them

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159. The two Arytenoid cartilages sit on top of 164. Which is the correct label for the follow-
the back of the cricoid and they can move ing sound?/dr/

A. Voiced-lenis post-alveolar affricate.
A. They can’t move. B. Voiced-lenis alveolar affricate.
B. Against each other. C. Voiced-lenis post-alveolar plosive.
C. Up and down. D. none of above
D. Together and apart, rock backwards 165. CVC, CCVC, CV are examples of what?
and forwards as wellas as rotate.
A. Syllable shapes
160. Which of the following consonants are bi- B. Phonemes
labial? C. Morphemes
A. /t/ and /d/ D. none of above
B. /k/ and /g/
166. What is the minimal pair of the
C. /f/ and /v/ word:‘Sick’
D. /p/ and /b/ A. Thick
B. Sink
161. The vowel /u:/ is
C. Think
A. back-close-long
D. Sum
B. back-open-long
167. Choose the word which has a different
C. front-close-long stress pattern from the others.
D. front-open-long A. famous
162. Indicate the prophetic syllable in the B. asleep
word “opportunity”. C. pretty
A. por D. careful
B. ity 168. A phonological process that deletes a
C. tun sound in a certain context is known as
D. op A. Metathesis
B. Dissimilation
163. Pair of words or phrases in a particular C. Elision
language, spoken or signed, that differ in
only one phonological element, such as a D. Assimilation
phoneme and have distinct meanings are
169. Analytic representation of speech sound
called:
production
A. Phoneme A. Allophones
B. minimal set B. Transcription
C. Allophone C. System Complexity
D. minimal pairs D. none of above

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170. Find out the onset in this sentence:it was C. 1

very lovely party
D. 5
A. Ve
B. Ry 176. Mode of spoken language expression
C. Lo A. Morphology
D. Vely B. Phonemes
C. Speech
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171. Which refers to vowel production?
A. Fricatives and Affricates D. none of above
B. Monophthongs and Diphthongs 177. What does (IPA) stand for?It means “In-
C. Monothongs and Dipthongs ternational Phonetic
D. Fracitives and Affracites A. Alphabet
172. In bisyllabic homographs which syllable B. Allophones
should we stress if we refer to a noun? C. Affricates
A. Both D. none of above
B. Neither
C. The second 178. Which word is stressed differently from
the others? A. mixture B. arrival C. re-
D. The first lieved D. collect
173. What we can find in the international A. A
phonemic alphabet?
B. B
A. Vowels and consonants
C. C
B. Consonants
D. D
C. Phonemic symbols
D. Phonology 179. The study of meaning-based units in lan-
guage
174. inflectional morpheme
A. Morphology
A. changes meanings and parts of speech
B. Phonology
B. does not change meanings or parts of C. Phonetics
speech D. none of above
C. makes adverbs from adjectives
180. is the speed with which sentences or
D. smallest part of a word that precedes
their parts are pronounced.
the root
A. Speech melody
175. Indicate the stressed syllable in the
word “characteristic”. B. Stress in speech
A. 4 C. The tempo of speech
B. 2 D. Rhythm

2.2 Phonetics 43
181. Select the word which contains this A. 1

stress pattern.Oo B. 4

A. today C. 3
B. tomorrow D. 2
C. Monday
187. Which is NOT the passive articulator?
D. none of above
A. velum
182. includes the stressed and un- B. tongue
stressed syllables beginning with the first
stressed syllable up to the last. C. alveolar ridge
A. Pre-head D. none of above
B. Head 188. Phoneme

C. Nucleus (tonic syllable) A. individual sound units in a spoken
D. Tail word
B. ability to manipulate sounds segments
183. What does Phonetics study? in words
A. Study of the human sound C. an instructional approach to teaching
B. Study of letters reading
C. Study of the alphabet D. a sound system
D. Study of the vowels 189. IPA stands for
184. This system of transcription has a sym- A. Interval Pronunciation Association
bol that uniquely represents one segment B. International Phoneme Alphabet
A. Phonemic Alphabet C. International Phonetic Alphabet
B. Level of Representation D. International Phonetic Association
C. Distinctive Features
190. Diphthong is a
D. none of above
A. Pure vowel sound
185. Open class or content words are defined B. Pure consonant sound
as
C. vowel glide
A. the words that convey conceptual
meaning D. none of above
B. words that are open to interpretation 191. In “It’s a beautiful town, isn’t it?”, if the
C. words that cannot be added to a lan- speaker is checking (not chatting) what
guage type of intonation will be used for the
question tag?
D. words that do not carry conceptual
meaning A. Rise-fall
B. Falling
186. How many syllables are there in the
following words:separate, different and C. Fall-rise
chocolate? D. Rising

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192. What is sound? 198. They are all characteristics of short vow-
A. Bb els, except
A. Is noticeably shorter than a long vowel.
B. Dd
C. Hh
B. Is made only with one mouth position.
D. Ll
193. Syntax is the study of C. Is only one symbol in the IPA because
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it is one mouth position
A. Word formation
D. none of above
B. How language is used to communicate
within its situational context 199. It is one branch of phonetics.
C. Linguistic meaning A. Articulatory
D. Phrases, clauses, and sentences B. Speech
C. Pronunciation
194. Vowels can be Double sounds
D. Sounds
A. single sounds
200. The space between vocal cords is
B. Diphthongs
A. Pharynx
C. Triphthongs
B. Larynx
D. none of above
C. Glottis
195. Which of the following words contains an D. oral and nasal cavity
BACK vowel?
201. Alveolar ridge is the ridge between
A. heard
and
B. sport
A. upper front teeth, hard palate
C. send
B. lower front teeth, soft palate
D. hot C. hard palate, soft palate
196. What is this word:/kam/ D. none of above
A. char 202. is the systemic study of the sounds
B. knock of speech, which is physical and directly
observable.
C. can
A. Phonology
D. come
B. Phonetics
197. Which letter is silent in castle and nes- C. Phonemes
tle?
D. allophones
A. L
203. Which of the following is not used as a
B. T
criterion in vowel classification?
C. N A. The height to which the tongue is
D. C raised.

2.2 Phonetics 45
B. The part of the tongue that is raised. 209. One position of the tongue is
C. The windpipe A. height

D. The vowel length B. width
C. strength
204. Find out sentence with rising-falling
tone D. advancement
A. I was so worried about you yesterday 210. rules for allowable phonemes and their
B. Although I was tired, I couldn’t get to combinations
sleep A. phonetics
C. Have you visited your grandma? B. Phonotactics
D. You bought new car yesterday, didn’t C. informational domain
you? D. none of above
205. Which of the following consonants are 211. What is NOT an example of an inflec-
labiodental? tional morpheme?
A. /k/, /g/ A. -ing
B. /p/, /b/ B. -ed
C. /n/, /m/ C. -s
D. /f/, /v/ D. -ish
206. In English, the following are “Content” 212. Place of articulation

words: A. describes how airflow is obstructed to
A. Conjunctions make a sound
B. Nouns and lexical verbs B. is not part of phonology
C. Auxiliary verbs C. involves every sound that doesn’t in-
clude voicing
D. Determiners and prepositions
D. describes where constriction happens
207. What is etymology? to make a sound
A. A name for a word 213. The isthe primary articulator in vowel
B. The original word production.
C. Origin of the word A. jaw position
D. Dictionary definition B. tongue

C. tonsels
208. is the study of how speech sounds
D. teeth
are produced, or ‘articulated’.
A. sound of speech 214. Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate
the world that differs from the other three
B. articulatory phonetics
in the position of primary stress in each of
C. acoustic phonetics the following questions
D. auditory phonetics A. Statement

2.2 Phonetics 46
B. Different C. the degree of broadness of their ac-

C. Movement cent
D. Cement D. English is their second language
215. When /t/ doesn’t sound like /t/ is an ex- 220. All of the body parts that we use to pro-
ample of duce speech sounds are called:
A. Vowel sound A. articulatory system
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B. Phonemes B. articulatory phonetics
C. Allophones. C. phonemes
D. none of above D. auditory phonetics
216. The following languages are stressed- 221. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your an-
timed (the rythmic impression is based on swer sheet to indicate the word that dif-
the regular timing of stress peaks, not syl- fers from pronunciation
lables). A. confine
A. Swahili and Russian B. conceal
B. English and German C. convention
C. French and Italian D. concentrate
D. Urdu and Hindi
222. The component of a grammar made up
217. How many kinds of phonetics: of the elements and principles that deter-
mine how sounds pattern in a language.
A. One
A. Phonology
B. Two
B. Phonetics
C. Three
C. Phonemes
D. Four
D. allophones
218. Complete the sentence with the correct
word. Take into account the stress pat- 223. Which are the elements in the rhyme?
tern.I’m going to have a party on
A. onset and coda
(Ooo)
B. nucleus and coda
A. July
C. onset and nucleus
B. Saturday
D. only onset
C. Monday
D. none of above 224. In the word “difficult” where in the word
the schwa sound occur?
219. An elongation of diphthongs often re-
A. fi
veals
B. cult
A. nothing
B. that some is speaking Standard En- C. di
glish D. ic

2.2 Phonetics 47
225. What is Articulatory Phonetics? 231. Which set of words has linking in con-
A. Focuses on how listeners perceive the nected speech?

sounds of language. A. Fish and chips
B. Focuses on the Physical properties of
B. Baby boy
the sounds of language.
C. Focuses on how the vocal tract pro- C. Nice food
duces the sounds of language. D. none of above
D. none of above
232. Which of the following levels is closely
226. I often sleep for an hour in the (ooO)
related to sound waves in the speech
A. holiday chain?
B. day A. Linguistic
C. afternoon
B. Physiological
D. none of above
C. Acoustic
227. Phonetic Variation of a phoneme
D. none of above
A. Allophone
B. Morpheme 233. The vocal tract works as:
C. Phoneme
A. It is like a speaker
D. none of above
B. It provides the sound to speak
228. common code among group for symboli-
cally representing ideas and concepts C. It is a resonador and a filter for all
parts of the sound created by the vocal
A. Speech
folds
B. Language
D. It Helps to sing
C. Articulation
D. none of above 234. What is a phoneme?
229. .... phonetics deals with the transmis- A. A description of the sound
sion of speech sounds through the air.
B. The different sounds in English
A. A-Articulatory
B. B-Acoustic C. A subcategory of phonetics
C. C-Experimental D. A unit of sound in speech

D. D-Auditory
235. The study of speech as a physical pro-
230. Roundedness and tongue advancement cess
are articulatory traits of the
A. phonetics
A. Vowels
B. photography
B. Consonants
C. Both C. morphology
D. Any of the above D. pragmatics

2.2 Phonetics 48
236. In the following sentence, “I love your C. Short diphtongs

mother’s cooking.”, which word should we D. Long monophtongs
stressed in order to emphasis how I feel
about her cooking? 242. a minimal unit of meaning is called a
A. love A. tagmeme
B. I B. lexeme
C. cooking C. morpheme
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D. your mother’s D. phoneme
237. A morpheme is: 243. Identify the acronym.
A. A minimal unit of stress in a language. A. abbr.
B. Yeah
B. A minimal unit of lexical meaning in a
C. Like
language.
D. ATM
C. A minimal unit of a grammatical mean-
ing in a language. 244. Divide bought into syllables
D. A minimal unit of sound in a language. A. bou-ght
238. Is an explample of the vowel i: B. bought
A. Fit C. bo-ught
B. Ship D. bo-ug-ht
C. Sheep 245. How many syllables in rocket?
239. The Number of monophthongs in English B. 2
phonology are C. 3
A. 8 D. 4
B. 12
246. The study of the sound system of lan-
C. 24 guage is called
D. 44 A. Phonology
240. The final sound in a syllable B. Semantics
A. Releasing C. Morphology
B. Arresting D. none of above
C. Open 247. What do we call if it is a mid central un-
D. none of above rounded vowels?
241. Which of the different types of vowels A. Scwa

named below is false? B. Schwa
A. Diphtongs C. Shwa
B. Short monophtongs D. Schaw

2.2 Phonetics 49
248. Which of the following words has the B. more than 60

GLOTTAL consonant? C. more than 40

A. honor D. exactly 52
B. honest
254. Indicate the stressed syllable in the
C. who word “pediatrician”?
D. what A. 5
249. Choose the words that have the different B. 4
stress from the others C. 1
A. nomadic D. 3
B. generous 255. Which is the monosyllabic word?
C. colourful A. Dog
D. countryside B. Tumbleweed
250. The phoneme /i:/ is in the words ‘pro- C. Register
ceed’, ‘reason’, and ‘scream’. Which word D. Jargon
in the list does not include the /i:/ sound?
256. Which is right among the following?
A. vaccine
A. 44Speech sounds, 22vowels, 22conso-
B. witness nants
C. conceive B. 44speech sounds, 24vowels, 20conso-
D. leader nants
C. 44speech sounds, 20vowels, 24conso-
251. Identification of meaningful units
nants
A. Phonetic Transcription
D. none of above
B. Phonemic Transcription
257. The term is applied for the study
C. Morphemic Transcription
of the more abstract, the more func-
D. none of above tional, or the more psychological aspects
of speech.
252. They are all characteristic of long vowels,
except A. A-phonetics
A. The weak vowel schwais the most com- B. B-phonology

mon vowel in English. C. C-grammar
B. Two dots like this-/:/ after the vowel D. D-semantics
symbol.
258. The thyroid cartilage is
C. Only one symbol in the IPA because it
A. a ligament.
is one mouth position.
B. sort of a ring shape underneath the
D. none of above
thyroid.
253. There are sounds in the English lan- C. attached by muscles to the hyoid bone
guage: higher up in the neck.
A. exactly 26 D. none of above

2.2 Phonetics 50
259. The following are considered manners of B. Perceptual Phonetics

articulation EXCEPT one:
C. Articulatory Phonetics
A. Stop
D. none of above
B. Bilabial
C. Affricate 265. Study of how we hear and interpret lan-
guage
D. Nasal
A. Perceptual Phonetics
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260. The process of compression takes place
when B. Articulatory Phonetics
A. a sound disappears. C. Phonetics

B. sounds are modified in context. D. none of above
C. sounds are produced in a shorter
266. “Pulmonic” means pertaining to
space of time.
D. none of above A. epiglottis
B. diaphragm
261. Which letter is silent in wrinkle, wreck,
and wrist? C. lungs
A. W D. none of above
B. I
267. .... phonetics deals with how speech
C. R sounds are perceived by the listener.
D. K A. A-Articulatory
262. are those sounds made by the artic- B. B-Acoustic
ulation of the body of the tongue towards
C. C-Experimental
the hard palate.
A. Palatal D. D-Auditory
B. Alveolar 268. Identify one of the various processes by

C. Velar which words can be built in any language.
D. Dental A. Infixes
263. Indicate the word whose underlined part B. lexical

differs from the other three in pronuncia- C. functional
tion.
D. grammatical
A. house
B. mouth 269. In the sentence, “The fat man ate, “
which part is the verb?
C. could
D. found A. Man
B. Ate
264. How and where sounds are produced in
the dynamic vocal tract C. The fat man
A. Transcription D. Ate food

2.2 Phonetics 51
270. Which word has a different sound in B. Prosody

“th”?
C. Phonetics

A. smooth
D. Intonation
B. father
C. either 276. WHAT ARE THE STRUCTURE WORDS?HE
WILL STUDY HARD FOR THE FINAL EX-
D. worth
AMS.
271. How many consonants are there in En- A. HE-WILL-FOR-THE
glish?
B. WILL-FOR-THE-FINAL
A. 24
C. HE-WILL-HARD-FOR-THE
B. 20
D. HE-FOR-THE
C. 26
D. 18 277. What is an example of a tense vowel
word?
272. The type of complexity that involves a sin-
gle or multiple sounds A. he
A. System Complexity B. look
B. Linguistic Complexity C. aloud
C. Response Complexity D. take
D. none of above
278. In the word “tomorrow” decide where in
273. WHICH SENTENCE IS SEMANTICALLY the word the schwa sound occur?
WRONG? (NO SENSE)
A. rr
A. PUT SOME SUGAR IN M Y MILK AND
STIR IT, PLEASE! B. to
B. HEATING CHILDREN IS NOT DISCI- C. ow
PLINE. D. mo
C. HE WATCHED THE BIRD WHILE
TOUCHING HIS BEARD. 279. vowels are always
D. YOUR BAIT IS GOOD FOR FISHING. A. voiced
274. Which of the following is not considered B. unvoiced

as (an) articulator(s)? C. okay
A. A-the tongue D. open mouth
B. B-the lips
280. Initial sound in a syllable
C. C-the velum
D. D-the ears A. Informational Domain
B. Arresting
275. The fact of intensifying a particular sylla-
ble in a word refers to: C. Releasing
A. Stress D. none of above

2.2 Phonetics 52
281. Which word is stressed differently from C. Vowels

the others?A. fertilize B. knowledge C. re-
D. Morphemes
fill D. dangerous
A. A 287. WHICH WORD IS NOT A TRIPTHONG?
B. B A. HIRE
C. C B. PLAYER
D. D
C. ROYAL
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282. are the abstractions of speech unit D. THEIR
which differ one meaning from another.
A. Segments 288. The vocal folds form a kind of a valve, so
B. Morphemes their primary function is
C. Orthography A. to vibrate everytimes we speak.

D. Phonemes B. to prevent anything entering the lungs
suchs as food or water.
283. In English, how many consonant sounds
are there? C. to release the air out of the lungs.
A. 24 D. none of above
B. 37
289. When we have two or more consonants
C. 10 together we call them
D. 59 A. a consonant cluster.
284. Which of the following words are an ex- B. a diphthong.
ception to the prophetic syllable rule?
C. onset.
A. Arabic, arithmetic, catholic
D. rhyme.
B. Incredible, desirable, impossible
C. Variety, superiority, ambiguity 290. Syllable structure:CVCV
D. Patient, experience, inefficiency A. Sudden
285. The scientific study of human language B. Student
A. linguistics C. Staffs
B. phonetics D. Number
C. pragmatics
291. A is a speech sound that is pro-
D. syntax
duced without any significant constriction
286. ” A human speech sound produced or blockage of air flow in the vocal tract.
when the breath flows out throught the A. vowel
mouth without being blocked by the teeth,
tongue, or lips.” This is a definition of: B. dipththong
A. Phonemes C. monothong
B. Consonants D. allograph

2.2 Phonetics 53
292. Which of the following words contains a 298. how many vowels sound do we have in
close vowel? English?

A. stand A. 20
B. start B. 24
C. sit C. 15
D. hot D. none of above
293. What is onglide and off glide associated 299. In general, weak syllable contains a
with? schwa or ending with
A. resonance A. syllabic consonant sounds
B. diphthongs B. onset consonant sounds
C. graphemes C. coda consonant sounds
D. phonemes D. /u/ vowel sound
294. Which of the following criteria is NOT 300. are also called vowel glides.
used to classify vowel sounds?
A. Pure vowels
A. lip rounding
B. Diphthongs
B. tongue position
C. Consonants
C. tongue height
D. none of above
D. voicing
301. Which of the following consonants are
295. What can be an example of a bound mor-
velar?
pheme?
A. /k/, /g/
A. ist
B. eat B. /t/, /d/
C. act C. /f/, /v/
D. ask D. /p/, /b/
296. Diphthongs can be divided into centering 302. In bisyllabic homographs which syllable
and closing diphthongs according to the should we stress if we refer to a verb?
A. Neither
A. initial vowel sound B. The first
B. second vowel sound C. Both
C. pure vowel sound D. The second
D. single vowel sound
303. What is the derivation of the word ‘hope-
297. Why might phatic talk be used? ful’?
A. To make the other person feel valued A. Hope
B. To fill conversation B. Ful
C. To be polite C. Un
D. All of the above D. Not

2.2 Phonetics 54
304. consonant comes before vowel 310. What is a vowel sound?

A. Post vowels A. Is a syllabic speech sound pronounced
B. Prevocalic without any structure in the vocal tract
C. Phonetics B. It’s only a sound
D. none of above
C. It’s How a letter sounds
305. What is an example of a closed class D. It’s its the sound created by the air
(function) words?
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A. conjuctions 311. Which syllable is formed by a vowel + a
B. adjectives consonant?
C. adverbs A. she
D. nouns B. eat
306. Which of the following is not a lexeme? C. sit
A. Un
D. bear
B. Running
C. Ran 312. /t, d, s, z, n, l, r/ are sounds.
D. Run A. bilabial
307. Vowels which are produced between the B. dental
position for a front and back vowel are
called vowels. C. post-alveolar
A. middle D. alveolar
B. central
313. Phonetic transcription is also called as
C. high
D. low
A. narrow transcription
308. WHAT KIND OF WORD IS IT?HE HAD
BEEN TO CUSCO TWICE THIS YEAR. B. broad transcription
A. CONTENT WORD C. phonemic transcription
B. STRUCTURE WORD D. none of above
C. VERB
D. PARTICIPLE VERB 314. studies the physical properties of
speech sound, as transmitted between
309. Which words have the same stress pat- the speaker’s mouth and the listener’s
tern? ear;
A. apple, table, hotel A. articulatory phonetics
B. suspect (verb), import (verb), record
B. acoustic phonetics
(noun)
C. hairbrush, football, boyfriend C. auditory phonetics
D. memorial, computer, flexible D. audiculatory phonetics

2.2 Phonetics 55
315. What is a consonant blend? B. vocal mass/ noise/ air mass

A. Two letters, that are not vow- C. noise/air mass/ vocal tract

els.Example:BL
D. vocal tract/ noise/air mass
B. Two vowels. Example:AE
321. Isolation, word, sentence, conversation
C. One vowel and consonant. Exam-
ple:AC A. System Complexity
D. Three letters. Example:BAD B. Linguistic complexity
316. The following are considered places of C. perceptual Complexity

articulation EXCEPT one: D. none of above
A. Stop
322. How many syllables does the word “tele-
B. Bilabial vision” have?
C. Velar A. 4
D. Labiodental B. 5
317. How many speech sounds are there in C. 3
english D. none of above
A. 24
323. studies the perceptual response to
B. 26
speech sounds as mediated by ear, audi-
C. 44 tory nerve and brain
D. 12 A. auditory phonetics
318. NP + VP =? B. acoustic phonetics
A. Clause or sentence C. articulatory phonetics
B. PP D. all answers are correct
C. NPV
324. How many Pure Vowel sounds are there
D. (D) (AP) N in English
319. a unit of pronunciation having one vowel A. 8
sound, with or without surrounding conso- B. 6
nants, forming the whole or a part of a
word are called as: C. 12
A. Phoneme D. 10
B. morpheme 325. The study of human speech sounds in a
C. allophone language that form systematized patterns
is called
D. syllable
A. PHONETICS
320. from the larynx entering the vocal
B. PHONOLOGY
tract is modified by the different shapes
of the C. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
A. noise/air mass/ vocal chord D. ARTICULATORS

2.2 Phonetics 56
326. Pitch can be 332. Knowledge of speech sounds and how

A. Slow and fast phonemes are produced
B. High and low A. Perceptual Domain
C. Interrupted and uninterrupted B. Informational Domain
D. None of the above C. Linguistic domain

D. none of above
327. If a word has an accent mark, what syl-
lable gets the emphasis? 333. Lexicon is
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A. The last syllable A. a pairing between a form and a sound
B. The 2nd to last syllable B. arbitrary relationship between the
meaning and the sound
C. The syllable with the accent mark
C. our mental dictionary of all the words
D. No syllable
we know
328. The Standard English is known as D. universal capacity to learn new words
A. Receptive Pronunciation 334. The Study of the way Humans make,
B. Received Pronunciation Transmit, and Receive Sounds
C. Recipient Pronunciation A. Phonetics
D. none of above B. Phonology
329. What is inference? C. Phoneme
A. The process of deriving implied mean- D. none of above

ings 335. Which word is stressed differently from
B. The process of signalling attitude the others?A. protect B. delighted C. scat-
ter D. detergent
C. The concept of how all communication
relies on presenting a ‘face’ A. A
D. none of above B. B
C. C
330. Find the words which has a different
sound in “a” D. D
A. lazy 336. How we perceive and discriminate pro-
B. date duction of speech sounds
C. hate A. Perceptual Domain
D. car B. Informational Domain

C. Linguistic Domain
331. Which of the following groups of words
D. none of above
typically undergoes a process of vowel
deletion in English? 337. One dimension for tongue position is
A. Psychology, sociology, education A. height
B. Researcher, statistics, probability B. width
C. Separate, different, camera C. advancement
D. Specific, define, constantly D. at rest

2.2 Phonetics 57
338. Sounds are made by vibrating the vocal B. Fricative

cords ( ) C. Affricate

A. high pitch
D. Nasal
B. Vocaling
344. There are 26 letters in the Latin alphabet
C. Voicing
but how many phonemic sounds are there
D. none of above in the English language?
339. It is the study of how speech sounds are A. 40
produced. B. 44
A. Phonemic C. 41
B. Phonology
D. 42
C. Phonetics
345. The meaning of the word ‘centenarian’ is
D. Phoneme
340. What are the place of articulation of the A. a person who tells people what to do
/p/ and /b/ sounds
B. a person who is at least 100 years old
A. Velar
C. a person who likes cents
B. Plosives
D. none of above
C. Nasals
D. Bilabial 346. what is the structure of the syllable
‘birth’
341. What does the term ‘articulation’ refer
A. cvc
to?
A. The formation of unclear and non- B. cvccc
distinct sounds in speech C. cvcc
B. The formation of clear and distinct D. none of the above
sounds in speech.
347. Which of the following syllables is
C. The formation of letters in words
prophetic?
D. Changing tense of spoken language
A. -ness
342. A meaning of the prefix “under” is B. -tion
A. too much C. -ship
B. too far D. -ful
C. too lean
348. Which word starts with a voiced conso-
D. too little
nant?
343. are the sound produced when the air A. ferry
stream is completely stopped for a mo-
B. space
ment, after which it is allowed to rush out
of the mouth with an explosive sound. C. victory
A. Plosive D. cake

2.2 Phonetics 58
349. Voicing is produced when the vocal folds 355. The study of speech production is called
A. spread. A. acoustic phonetics

B. stop. B. articulatory phonetics
C. vibrate.
C. auditory phonetics
D. none of above
D. agricultural phonetics
350. In the sentence “I was going to tell you”,
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how many times does the schwa sound oc- 356. Which word is stressed differently from
cur? the others? A. facility B. emergency C. ac-
A. 3 cessible D. permanently
B. 4 A. A
C. 2 B. B
D. 1 C. C
351. ....deals with how speech sounds are pro- D. D
duced, transmitted, and perceived.
A. A-Grammar 357. How many sounds can be identified in the
English language?
B. B-Phonotactics
C. C-Phonetics A. 32
D. D-Text linguistics B. 26
352. The word ‘powerful’ has: C. 44

A. 1 phoneme D. 20
B. 2 phonemes
358. Find out sentence with falling-rising
C. 3 phonemes tone
D. none of the above A. You don’t like Chinese restaurant, do
353. What is NOT an example of an open (con- you?
tent) class word? B. I will be happy if you get high result
A. a noun from your exam
B. a pronoun C. It was fantastic movie!
C. a verb D. Do you want join us?
D. an adverb
359. what does IPA stand for?
354. What word(s) aren’t stressed in the next
sentence:‘JMario is a good friend’ A. Interconnectional Phonemic Allo-
phones
A. JMario
B. Is, a B. Interactional Phonetic Alphabet
C. Good, Friend C. International Phonetic Alphabet


2.2 Phonetics 59
360. was one of the most influential lin- 366. he/she?

guists in the field of syntax. A. wish

A. Paul Broca B. desieve
B. Carl Wernicke C. deceive
C. Noam Chomsky D. deceived
D. William Shakespeare
367. Affricative sound is a combination of a
361. The production of different speech consonant with an immediate follow-
sounds through the use of the organs of ing sound.
speech is known as . . . . . . . . A. plosive-fricative
A. A-assimilation B. nasal-palatal
B. B-dissimilation C. glottal-alveolar
C. C-articulation D. velar-bilabial
D. D-syllabification
368. Affricate is a consonant which begins as
362. Syllable structure:CVCVCVC and end as fricative.
A. Sudden A. nasal
B. Student B. plosive
C. Develop C. palatal
D. Quality D. glottal
363. It is the area in the mouth at which 369. There is only one consonant sound.
the consonantal closure or constriction oc- A. glottal
curs.
B. bilabial
A. Place of Articulatory
C. nasal
B. Place of Articulation
D. velar
C. Place of Articulate
D. Articulation 370. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate
the word that differs from the rest in the
364. Minimum syllable is the one that has position of the main stress
A. only a consonant. A. capture
B. only a vowel. B. picture
C. only the rhyme. C. ensure
D. only the onset. D. pleasure
365. Syllable structure:V 371. All the syllables after the nucleus are
A. He A. Pre-head
B. She B. Head
C. Am C. Nucleus (tonic syllable)
D. Air D. Tail

2.2 Phonetics 60
372. airstream is produced by the move- D. none of above

ment of the larynx.
A. Pulmonic 378. WHICH WORD STARTS WITH AN UN-
VOICED SOUND?
B. Glottalic
A. bag
C. Velaric
B. road
D. none of above
C. cheese
373. Find out nucleus:it was so interesting
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book D. music
A. It 379. It is a system that is describing and
B. Interesting recording the sounds of language objec-
C. Book tively.
D. So A. Phonology
374. Which word is stressed on the third syl- B. Phonemic

lable? C. Phoneme
A. Decision D. Phonetics
B. Interrupt
380. Vowels can besingle sounds:
C. Alphabet
D. none of above A. monophthongs or pure vowels
B. Diphthongs
375. The main accented syllable is
A. Pre-head C. Triphthongs
B. head D. none of above

C. Nucleus (tonic syllable) 381. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your an-
D. Tail swer sheet to indicate the word that dif-
fers from the other three in the position
376. Which of the following words contains a of the primary stress
closing diphthong?
A. Discuss
A. hear
B. sure B. Waving
C. day C. Airport
D. very D. Often
377. Synchronic Linguistics 382. A is a combination of two vowels pro-

A. Studies how language synchronizes nounced within one syllable.
with others languages. A. pure vowel
B. Traces the historical development of B. diphthong
the language and records
C. consonant
C. Presents an account of the language
as it is at some particular point in time. D. affricate

2.2 Phonetics 61
383. What is this word:/stadi/ C. mid-back

A. stadium D. central

B. state
389. The Cricoid cartilage is
C. study
A. sort of a ring shape underneath the
D. streat thyroid.
384. How many individual sounds do we have B. attached by muscles to the hyoid bone
in the word “teacher”? higher up in the neck
A. three C. sort of a box shape underneath the thy-
B. four roid.
C. five D. none of above
D. six 390. Which of the following words contains a
385. Choose the word with the underlined CLOSE vowel?
part pronounced differently from that of A. had
the others (s/z)A. wastes B. thingsC. facts
B. mood
D. shapes
C. scare
A. A
B. B D. her
C. C 391. English is a language.

D. D A. Phonetic
386. Which word in the list does not have the B. Unphonetic
/i:/ sound? C. Phonetic less
A. vaccine
D. none of above
B. witness
392. Which word is stressed differently from
C. conceive
the others? A. reuse B. victim C. glass-
D. leader ware D. discount
387. These are types of nouns: A. A
A. Proper, abstract, collective, common, B. B
concrete
C. C
B. Abstract, passive, proper, indefinite
D. D
C. Indefinite, temporal, common, selec-
tive 393. Wich deals with the physical proper-
D. Common, active, dynamic, spatial ties of speech sound waves in the air.
A. sound of speech
388. Tongue advancement can be in what po-
sition? B. articulatory phonetics
A. high C. acoustic phonetics
B. low D. auditory phonetics

2.2 Phonetics 62
394. In standard English pronunciation, how C. bombard

many different types of vowels are
D. manicure
there?
A. 2 400. These shoes don’t my
B. 3 A. a. feet, fit
C. 1 B. b. fit, feet
D. 4 C. fat, feet
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395. Which of the following is not an aspect of D. none of above
the speech sounds as a physical event?
A. A-Physiological 401. How many vowel sounds categories exist
. ?
B. B-Acoustic
A. Only 1
C. C-Articulatory
B. 3, (short, long, and doble vowel
D. D-Comprehensive
sounds)
396. Which of the following levels is closely C. All the vowel sounds are different
related to vocal muscles and ear in the
speech chain? D. none of above
A. Linguistic 402. What is a nasal sound?
B. Physiological A. Sounds that when you pronounce it we
C. Acoustic use the nose.
D. none of above B. Words that we use nowadays.
397. How many consonant sounds are there C. Sounds of American English
in English D. Words that start with a consonant.
A. 12
B. 24 403. Identification of variants of phonemes
C. 8 A. Phonetic Transcription
D. 10 B. Phonemic Transcription
C. Morphemic Transcription
398. When was invented the International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? D. none of above
A. 1898
404. In the following sentence, “I didn’t say
B. 1988 we should kill him.”, which word should be
C. 1788 stressed in order to convey the meaning
“We were supposed to kill his brother “?
D. 1888
A. supposed
399. Which word begins with voiceless
sound? B. I
A. vanish C. we
B. furnish D. him

2.3 Phonology 63
405. According to the length, vowels may be B. simplex words

or C. complex words

A. long-short D. compound words
B. high-low
409. In the sentence “This exercice takes a
C. rounded-unrounded lot of time”, how many times does the
D. front-back schwa sound occur?
A. 1
406. What does ‘voicing’ refer to?
B. 4
A. characterising speech sounds
C. 3
B. limiting speech sounds
D. 2
C. non-verbal utterances
D. none of above 410. What is a the most important word or a
head in the NP?
407. Which one of the following words that
A. preposition
violates the phonological rules of English
language? B. verb
A. Stroke C. novel word
B. Gnome D. noun
C. brish 411. One minimal pair for /lik/ is
D. Mblath A. lost
408. Words that are made up of more than B. alike

one morpheme are called C. like
A. regular words D. liked
2.3 Phonology
1. The smallest meaningful units in a D. none of above
language, meaning, substituting one
phoneme for another will change the 3. This is a single phoneme constructed of
meaning of a word. two adjacent vowel sounds.
A. Suprasegmental A. Phoneme
B. Segmental B. Diphthong
C. Graphemes C. Minimal pair
D. Phonemes D. none of above
2. For example A, E, I, O, U. 4. Which ones are approximant words?

A. Consonant A. Road, Yellow, Wall, Law
B. Vowel B. Roses, Tune, Home, Lost
C. Phoneme C. River, Yes, Spot, Crisis

2.3 Phonology 64
D. Ring, Yesterday, Walk, Alone 10. The soft, mveable part of the palate at the
back of the mouth?
5. Which other phonological priniple to iden-
A. Uvula
tify syllables exists besides the “Maximal
Onset Principle”? B. Velar
A. Onset Sonority Principle C. Velum
D. Pharynx
B. Sonority Sequencing Principle
11. Strong syllables are
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C. Onset Sequencing Principle
D. Sonorous Member Principle A. Unstressed
B. Stressed
6. A word or a part of a word that has only
C. Adjectives
one vowel sound.
D. none of above
A. Syllable
12. Speech organ situated in the larynx is
B. Syllabus
called?
C. phoneme
A. glottis
D. none of above B. uvula
7. What is the type of syllables that contains C. velum
diphthongs? D. vocal cord
A. Polysillables 13. Phonology is related to
B. Open Syllables A. motor movement for speech produc-
C. Team vowel syllables/Vowel combination
tion B. organization of speech sound in a
D. none of above given language
C. stuttering
8. Glottal stops are sounds made by momen-
D. producing specific age expected
tarily closing the glottis and then releas-
sounds
ing the air, as in
A. Uh-oh! 14. This is a shortened form of a word or
words
B. Yum!
A. Contraction
C. Shoosh!
B. Consonant
D. none of above C. Minimal pair
9. Which of the following sounds are approx- D. none of above
imants?
15. Phonological Process:/sop/→/so/
A. r, y, v, l A. Fronting
B. r, j, w, l B. Final Consonant Deletion
C. r, g, m, l C. Stopping
D. r, i, m, l D. Cluster Reduction

2.3 Phonology 65
16. bridges C. End with a consonants

A. /s/ D. Silent letter e and long vowel

B. /z/ 22. This is a sound usually represented by
C. /ez/ these letters:b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n,
p, q, r, s, t, v, w, y, z.
D. none of above
A. Consonant
17. Which of the following examples best rep- B. Vowel
resents the process of blending?
C. Diphthong
A. missionary + training + center =
MTC D. none of above
B. head + phones = headphones 23. The ability to use the correct stress,
rhythm, and intonation of a word in a spo-
C. information + commercial = infomer-
ken language.
cial
A. Pronunciation
D. micro-+ biology = microbiology
B. Articulation
18. The analyzes of the production of all hu- C. Intonation
man speech sounds regardless of lan-
guage is D. Phonemes
A. phonolgy 24. Voiced, Alveolar, Nasal

B. Phonetics A. t
C. Phonemics B. n
D. Acoustics C. h
D. none of above
19. Which is an example of elision
A. “fish n chips” 25. For any articulation corresponding to one
of these constant phonemes, the vocal
B. “ya” tract is constricted at all of the following
C. “bidda” (bitter) points EXCEPT:
D. “hanbag” A. Bilabial
B. Aspiration
20. Fit and feet; fear and fair; track and truck
are examples of C. Interdental
A. A rhyme. D. Glottal
B. B linking. 26. what does the IPA represent?

C. C minimal pairs. A. represent all sounds in human speech
D. none of above
B. represent all sounds in the english lan-
21. Closed syllables guage
A. Ends with a vowel C. represents all sounds created by nasal
B. Two vowels that make ONE vowel stop
sound. D. represents all monophthongs

2.3 Phonology 66
27. A consonant sound at the end of one word 33. Sounds made at the opening between the
joins with a vowel sound at the beginning vocal folds.
of the next word. A. Glottals
A. Catenation B. Stops
B. Assimilation C. Velars
C. Linking D. none of above
D. Elision
34. Voiced, Nasal, Velar
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28. Voiced, Alveolar, fricative A. ing
A. z B. g
B. j C. m
C. m D. none of above
D. none of above 35. The distinction between what we hear and
29. Which is the stress pattern for the word perceive is
“substitute”? A. We hear segments, but we perceive
A. ooO speech
B. Ooo B. We hear segments, but perceive the

phonemic alphabet
C. oOo
C. We hear speech, but we perceive seg-
D. none of above ments
30. A branch of linguistics that studies the D. none of above
ways in which speech sounds form sys-
36. It’s the word which the speaker thinks is
tems and patterns.
the most important to the meaning of the
A. Psychology sentence
B. Phonology A. contraction
C. Phonetics B. sentence stress
D. Morphology C. intonation
31. How many vowels are there in the English D. main stress
Alphabet? 37. Phonetics has subdisciplines.
A. 4 A. 6
B. 6 B. 5
C. 5 C. 4
D. 2 D. 3
32. m, n and ng are all 38. It is the most basic unit of speech sound.
A. Fricatives A. Phonology
B. Plosives B. Phoneme
C. Nasals C. Phone
D. Approximants D. Allophone

2.3 Phonology 67
39. Manner of articulation which the tongue B. intonation

produces a partial closure of the
C. sentence stress
airstream in the mouth, but not enough

to cause any real friction D. phoneme
A. Fricative 45. How would you break this word into sylla-
B. Plosive bles?DAMAGE
C. Liquids A. da/mage
D. Affricate B. dam/age
40. a bilabial place of articulation uses C. dama/ge
A. lower lip and upper teeth D. none of above
B. front of tongue and hard palate
46. Alliteration is
C. both lips
A. at the end of a word
D. back of tongue and soft palate
B. at the beginning of the word
41. How many vowel sounds are there in En-
C. anywhere in the word
glish?
D. none of above
A. 5
B. 10 47. The occurrence of one allophone rather
C. 20 than another is usually determined by
D. none of above A. its position in the word (initial, final,

medial, etc.)
42. What’s the meaning of Onset?
B. its phonetic environment.
A. The beginning sound of the syllable;
C. both of the above
the ones preceding the nucleus .
B. The nuclear node D. none of above
C. The ending sound of the syllable, the 48. What deals with the propriety of stress (in-
ones preceding the nucleus tensity of sound or voice) and tone (pitch
D. none of above of sound or voice)?
A. Segmental Phonology
43. In which of the following positions do af-
fixes NOT occur in American English? B. Suprasegmental Phonology
A. At the beginning of words C. Phonology
B. In the middle of words D. Phonetics
C. At the end of words
49. The study of speech sounds.
D. Wrapped around words
A. Phoneme
44. Is the movement of the level of the voice.
B. Phone
We use it to express emotions and atti-
tudes C. Phonetics
A. rhythm D. Allophone

2.3 Phonology 68
50. This is a form of a vowel that we use when A. The vocal tract expands
the word or syllable is not stressed.
B. Vocal cords vibrate
A. Weak form
C. The phonemes and segments work to-
B. Phoneme gether
C. Word stress D. none of above
D. none of above
56. In total, how many phonemes are there in
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51. The realization of a phoneme depends on the English Language?
A. 43
A. the phonetic context it occurs in
B. 44
B. the language you speak
C. 45
C. the way the airstream is obstructed
D. 46
D. the degree of lip rounding
52. How many vowel sounds are there in the 57. A group of consonants without a vowel
English Alphabet? (such as “spl” in “splinter”) is a
A. 20 A. consonant string
B. 15 B. consonant cluster
C. 25 C. consonant grouping
D. 10 D. none of above
53. When does a phoneme become aspi- 58. A combination of fricatives and stops.
rated?
A. Affricates
A. When it begins a syllable and is fol-
lowed by a stressed vowel B. Glides
B. When the vowel is lengthened C. Nasals

C. When it begins with stressed vowel D. none of above
and is followed by a syllable
59. Voiced, Palatal, liquids
D. All of the above
A. l
54. Sounds involve only a partial blockage of
B. r
the vocal tract so that air has to be forced
through a narrow channel is called .. C. m
A. Nasal D. none of above
B. Fricative
60. Alveolar, Voiced, Stop
C. Affricate
A. t
D. Plosive
B. d
55. What happens when any articulation cor-
C. g
responding to one of the consonant
phonemes occurs D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 69
61. Which sound has different pronounce with 67. When we modify existing words to convey
other sounds? grammatical information about how they
function, we use

A. wanted
B. invited A. derivational markers
C. called B. intonational curves
D. needed C. propositional phrases

D. inflectional affixes
62. It basically covers the sounds of vowels
and consonants 68. fads
A. Segmental Phonology A. /s/
B. Segment Phonology B. /z/
C. Supranatural phonology C. /less/
D. Suprasegmental phonology D. none of above
63. Phonological Process:/sel/→/tel/ 69. The quality of a sound governed by the

A. Final Consonant Deletion rate of vibrations producing it; the degree
of highness or lowness of a tone is
B. Cluster Reduction
A. STRESS
C. Stopping
B. TEMPO
D. Fronting
C. VOLUME
64. Which one statement that not about D. PITCH
phonology
A. Sounds of a particular language 70. Voiceless, palatal, fricative
B. Broader scope A. sh
C. Articulation/production B. treasure
D. Studies phonemes C. ch
D. none of above
65. This is where one symbol corresponds to
a single phoneme 71. Which high profile figure in the UK is seen
A. Phonemic Alphabet as the best speaker of received pronunci-
ation?
B. The levels of representation
A. Boris Johnson
C. The different segments
B. The Queen
D. none of above
C. The Chancellor
66. What sort of rhyme can we see D. Piers Morgan
here:“great grazed grave”
A. pararhyme 72. Sounds made with enough constriction
of the vocal tract to impede or obstruct
B. eye-rhyme the airstream. (stops, fricatives, and af-
C. reverse rhyme fricates)
D. none of above A. Approximants

2.3 Phonology 70
B. Sonorants 78. is the pronunciation of a syllable

C. Obstruents with more respiratory energy or muscu-
lar force than other syllables in the same
D. none of above word
73. A type of segment that we perceive when A. Word stress
we hear speech is termed: B. Aspiration
A. Distinctive feature C. Intonation
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B. Tenseness D. none of above
C. Voicing
79. Which is the correct syllable structure?
D. Phoneme
A. VCV
74. What deals with the study of the physi- B. CVC
cal production of speech sounds and how
such sounds are properly transmitted? C. CCV
A. Acoustic Phonetics D. none of above
B. Articulatory Phonetics 80. Voiced, bilabial, glide
C. Auditory Phonetics A. k
D. Autonomy Phonetics B. p
75. Allophones are C. h
A. phonetically distinct, but they are not D. none of above
phonemically distinct
81. What is a hypernym?
B. phonemically distinct, but they are not
A. a word with a broad meaning constitut-
phonetically distinct
ing a category into which words with more
C. phonetically and phonemically distinct specific meanings fall; a superordinate.
B. a word with only one meaning
D. phonemically and phonetically equal
C. a word with more than 10 meanings
76. Which of the following is closed syllable? D. none of above
A. Tap
82. Voiced, Palatal, Glide
B. Scale
A. sh
C. Snake
B. j
D. none of above
C. 3
77. A sound formed by the joint use of the D. none of above
tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the
gum just above the front teeth 83. pals
A. lingua-dental A. /s/
B. alveolar B. /z/
C. Bilabial C. /less/

2.3 Phonology 71
84. How many syllable in STRAWBERRY 90. This is when we pronounce one syllable
A. 2 of a word with greater emphasis than the
others.

B. 4
A. Rhyme
C. 3
D. none of above B. Sentence stress
C. Word stress
85. What is a way of speaking a language?
It relates to a significant utterance or D. none of above
speech pattern resulting from the conse-
quences and pauses of stress and pitch 91. A free morpheme is a word that
accent. A. can be used all by itself
A. Intonation
B. signals content rather than grammati-
B. Stress cal function
C. Accent C. can be divided into smaller parts
D. Juncture
D. must be used with another word
86. Voiced, alveolar, liquid
92. What might the writer of a novel use to
A. r represent a character’s regional dialect?
B. l
A. the IPA
C. n
B. eye-dialect
D. none of above
C. diphthongs
87. The way in which the sound is produced.
D. onomatopoeia
A. Manner
B. Voicing 93. The cavity in human beings and in animals
where the sound produced at the sound
C. Place
source
D. none of above
A. Vocal cords
88. Which words are voiceless?
B. Vocal folds
A. p, k, d
C. Vocal tract
B. p, w, t
D. none of above
C. p, t, k
D. b, m, k 94. Which is the normal neutral stress pattern
in the following statement?They’ll ask the
89. If a poet rhymes ‘escaped’ with ‘scooped’,
teacher for help.
what sort of rhyme is this?
A. They’ll / teacher / help
A. pararhyme
B. eye-rhyme B. ask / the / help
C. reverse rhyme C. ask / teacher /help
D. none of above D. They’ll / ask / for

2.3 Phonology 72
95. What is the study of the acoustic, au- A. Rhythm

ditory characteristics of speech sounds B. Intonation
and physical properties/features of hu-
man speech sounds? C. Sentence stress
A. Phonology D. none of above
B. Phonemes 101. One of the following words DOESN’T

have the Schwa sound
C. Phonetics
A. mob
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D. Phonics
B. up
96. How many phonemes does the word
C. love
LIGHT has?
D. nut
A. Five
B. Three 102. Would you prefer coffee or tea? is an
example of a sentence with the following
C. Four intonation:
D. none of above A. A Would you prefer coffee or tea? (fall,
97. If two phones are free in variation or in fall)
complementary distribution, they are: B. B Would you prefer coffee or tea?
(rise, fall)
A. Allophones of different phonemes
C. C Would you prefer coffee or tea? (fall,
B. Allophones of the same phonemes
rise)
C. Aspiration
D. none of above
D. Phonology
103. Phonetically, how many variations of of
98. “a sailor went to sea, sea, sea to see what consonant sounds are there?
he could see, see, see. “what is this an ex-
A. 24
ample of?
B. 23
A. alliteration
C. 22
B. rhythm
D. 26
C. rhyme
D. assonance 104. Voiced, labiodental, fricative
A. f
99. A branch of linguistics that studies the na-
B. z
ture of speech sounds.
C. v
A. Phonology
D. none of above
B. Morphology
C. Psychology 105. Voiceless, Velar, Stop
D. Phonetics A. g
B. k
100. This refers to a repeated pattern, with
respect to phonology, it is a repeated pat- C. ing
tern of stressed sounds. D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 73
106. Vowel-like consonants with slightly more 112. Have

closure in production than vowels. A. /yes/

A. Affricates B. /whoop/
B. Liquids C. /haf/
C. Fricatives D. /heif/
D. none of above
113. The study of the pattern of speech
107. Voiced, Bilabial, Stop sounds used in a particular language
A. p A. Phonemics
B. d B. Phonetics
C. b C. Phonology
108. words distinguised by only one phoneme 114. If two phones contrast, are they:
A. minimal pair A. allophones of different phonemes
B. word stress B. allophones of the same phonemes

C. Samsung or Apple
C. rhythm
D. intonation
115. Which words are different stress with
109. Voiceless, Alveolar, Stop
the others?
A. s
A. mirror
B. t B. weather
C. p C. disaster
D. none of above D. headline
110. Presence or absence of vocal fold vi- 116. Consonants produced using both lips.p,
bration during the production of speech b, m, w
sounds.
A. Bilabials
A. Place
B. Velars
B. Manner
C. Stops
C. Voicing
D. none of above
D. none of above
117. what is the definition of phonology?
111. Voiceless, lingua-dental, fricative
A. study of speech sounds
A. theta
B. International Phonetics Alphabet
B. d3
C. study sentence structures
C. f D. study of the sound system of a lan-
D. none of above guage

2.3 Phonology 74
118. The systematic rise and fall in the pitch C. assonance

of the voice during speech used in English D. homophones
to convey some emotional and grammati-
cal meanings 124. The study of the patterns of sounds in a
A. Intonation language and across languages is called
B. Rhythm
A. Phonology
C. Sentence stress
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B. Semantics
D. Catenation
C. Morphology
119. The cartilage flap that helps cover the lar-
ynx during swallowing is? D. Phonetics
A. Epiglottis 125. We can identify the phonemes /p/ and

B. Pharynx /t/ by comparing the words “pie” and
“tie”. Those words are considered
C. Velum
A. Minimal Units
D. Uvula
B. Minimum Pairs
120. Systematic variations are called what
C. Minimal Pairs
A. Allophones
D. pair rhyme
B. Phonemes
C. Segments 126. A sound that involves vibration of the vo-
cal cords is a sound.
D. none of above
A. voicing
121. How many elements to distinguish be- B. voiced
tween fortis and lenis consonants?
C. voiceless
A. 3
D. none of above
B. 2
C. 4 127. It is the mental representation of a
sound.
D. 5
A. Phonology
122. Constants can be divided into which two
constructs: B. Phoneme
A. Obstruents & Sonorants C. Phone
B. Voicing & distinctive features D. Allophone

C. Liquids & Glides 128. Sounds produced with the area posterior
D. None of the above to the alveolar ridge.ch, /r/, sh, 3, d3, /j/
A. Bilabial
123. Which phonological device is being used
in the phrase “new blue moon”? B. Palatal
A. onomatopoeia C. lingua-dental
B. pararhyme D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 75
129. Which is the stress pattern for the word 134. How many consonants are voiced and le-
“kangaroo”? nis?
A. 9

A. Ooo
B. oOo B. 12
C. ooO C. 13
D. 15
D. none of above
135. The word “Dependability” is stress on:
130. American English vowels in unstressed
A. the ante-penultimate syllable.
syllables are
B. the first syllable.
A. often the transitional vowel used in
diphthongs C. the second syllable.
D. the penultimate syllable
B. sometimes pronounced with greater
forcefulness 136. The space between the vocal folds is
C. very short and sometimes disappear called
altogether A. epiglottis
D. None of the above B. pharynx
C. glottis
131. A unit of pronunciation with one vowel
D. larynx
sound and sometimes also a consonant,
forming the whole or a part of a word. 137. ch (as in church) and dg (as in judge) are
A. Diphthong
A. plosives
B. Phoneme
B. fricatives
C. Syllable
C. affricates
D. none of above
D. nasals
132. Which one statement that not about pho- 138. Voiced, Velar, Stop
netics
A. k
A. Descriptive linguistics
B. g
B. Universal (all speech sounds) C. b
C. Transmission D. none of above
D. Organisasion 139. In order to communicate most effec-
tively, speakers must
133. The features that decide which of the p
sounds will be used are A.
A. The position and /or the surrounding B. converse at about the same pace as
sounds native speakers
C. repeat the phrases they have heard
B. The way of producing sounds
and memorized
C. The position of the sounds
D. know language rules so they can use
D. The surrounding sounds words correctly

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140. Voiceless, Labiodental, fricative 146. Which word has two voiced consonants?
A. v A. Big
B. f B. Tall
C. s C. Side
141. This is when we join words together to 147. Listen to the following sentence. Indi-
make a continuous stream of speech. cate which words were stressed.
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A. Contraction A. will sell car gone
B. Sentence stress B. you car gone France
C. Connected speech C. sell car because France
D. none of above D. sell car gone France
142. The phonetically distinct variants of a 148. How do we call different phones of one
phoneme are called phoneme
A. Allophones A. multiphones
B. Phonemes B. cellophones
C. Segments C. pluriphones
D. none of above D. alloophones
143. What are the prosodic features 149. A sound change where some phonemes
A. elision, vowel reduction, assimilation, (typically consonants or vowels) change to
insertion be more similar to other nearby sounds.
B. cough, laughter, breath A. catenation
C. intonation, volume, manner of articula- B. assimilation
tion C. elision
D. stress, pitch, intonation, volume, D. linking
tempo
150. sounds produced by a force of airflow
144. In which word do you find the / i:/ through a narrow constriction.
sound? A. Glides
A. steak B. Fricatives
B. key C. Liquids
C. fear D. none of above
D. ship
151. Fantastic is an example of a words which
145. Phonology can be included carries the main stress on the
A. Psycholinguistic A. A first syllable.
B. Sociolinguistic B. B second syllable.
C. Language acquisition C. C third syllable.
D. All of them D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 77
152. The practice of leaving a sound out when 158. Speech organ involved in /b/, /p/, and
you say a word or group of words /m/ are?

A. assimilation A. lower lip and upper lip
B. elision B. lower lip and gum ridge
C. catenation C. lower teeth and upper teeth
D. stress D. lower lip and upper teeth
153. What is the nucleous of a syllable? 159. To produce the schwa sound you have to
A. Is the ending sound of the syllable hold the part of your tongue in your
mouth.
B. Is the core or essential part or a sylla-
ble A. Middle, low
B. Front, High
C. The beginning sound of the syllable.
C. Front, low
D. none of above
D. Middle, high
154. this refer to the rise and fall of pitch and
volume as we speak. 160. Formed by complete closure of the vocal
tract. airflow is temporarily stopped.
A. Intonation
A. Fricatives
B. Rhyme
B. Stops
C. Sentence stress
C. Affricates
D. none of above
D. none of above
155. The science or study of speech sounds
and their production is called 161. A is the smallest unit of sound in a
language.
A. phonetics
A. phoneme
B. transcription
B. sound
C. phonology
C. vowel
D. articulation
D. none of above
156. How many syllable in MIDNIGHT?
162. What is a glottal stop?
A. 3
A. a combination of a plosive and a frica-
B. 4 tive
C. 2 B. how you make an L sound
D. none of above C. making a fricative sound last a long
157. Words that contain two syllables are time
called D. closing vocal cords instead of pro-
A. twosyllabic nouncing a T
B. duetsyllabic 163. Can’t; don’t; he’s are examples of
C. disyllabic A. A connected speech.
D. polysyllabic B. B weak forms.

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C. C contractions. 169. Sounds with vowel-like quality. They in-

D. none of above clude nasals, liquids, and glides.
A. Stridents
164. what are the sounds in connected speech
processes B. Sibilants
A. stress, pitch, intonation, tempo, vol- C. Sonorants
ume D. none of above
B. monopthongs, diphthongs, long vow-
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els 170. Point in the vocal tract where the sound
is made.
C. assimilation, vowel reduction, elision,
insertion A. Manner
D. noun, verb, adjective B. Place
C. Voicing
165. It deals with the production of speech
sounds. It simply refers to the utterance D. none of above
of speech sounds which may otherwise be
identified as enunciation. 171. Voiced sounds are produced by the vocal
cord.
A. Acoustic Phonetics
A. Raising
B. Articulatory Phonetics
B. Lowering
C. Auditory Phonetics
C. Vibrating
D. Autonomy Phonetics
D. Closing
166. Which of the following is an example of
non-lexical onomatopoeia? 172. p b t d k g are all examples of
A. Splash A. plosives
B. Clunk B. fricatives
C. brrrrrr C. affricates
D. Bang D. nasals
167. Consonance is 173. The variants of a phoneme.
A. The repetition of vowel sounds
A. Phonology
B. The repetition of consonant sounds
B. Phoneme
C. A type of word that doesn’t contain any
C. Phone
vowels
D. A special sound that isn’t voiced D. Allophone
168. It is the study of how the vocal tract pro- 174. How many syllables types do we have in
duces the sounds of language. English?
A. Acoustic phonetics A. 7
B. Auditory phonetics B. 6
C. Articulatory phonetics C. 5

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175. How many syllables in NAPKIN? 181. Which of the following is NOT true of af-
A. 2 fixation?

B. 1 A. It only involves word parts found in dic-
tionaries
C. 3
D. none of above B. It is very common in American English
176. The word deal is

C. Speakers use the patterns to create
A. Trisyllable new words
B. Bisyllable
D. Spelling and pronunciation may be af-
C. Monosyllable fected
D. none of above
182. A diphthong is a combination of
177. Which of the following group of words vowel sounds within the same syllable.
contain the manner of articulation called
liquid? A. two
A. Palm, Lamp, Calendar B. three
B. Muscle, Police, Salmon C. many
C. Calf, Wallet, Eleven
D. none of above
D. Little, Pillow, Family
178. Speakers create or derive new words by 183. Voiceless, glottal, fricative
adding meaningful to existing words. A. w
A. allophones B. h
B. synonyms
C. ing
C. conjugations
D. none of above
D. affixes
179. This is a series of symbols which repre- 184. Which is the correct spelling?
sent the sounds of a language.
A. diphthong
A. Phonemic script
B. dipthong
B. Minimal pair
C. diphtong
C. Connected speech
D. none of above D. dithpong
180. The passageway between the lips and 185. When you pronounce voiced consonants,
nostrils on one end and the larynx on the your should vibrate.
other end is known as:
A. vocal cords
A. The vocal tract
B. mouth
B. segments
C. phonemic alphabet C. throat
D. cleft lipor palate D. air stream

2.3 Phonology 80
186. This is when we pronounce one word or 192. Glides and Liquids together.
syllable in a sentence more strongly than A. Sibilants
the others.
B. Obstruents
A. Word stress
C. Approximants
B. Rhythm
D. none of above
C. Sentence stress
193. How can we best show the parts that
D. none of above
make up the English word unavoidable?
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187. Is a set of phonemic symbols which show A. (unavoid) + (-able)
how words are pronounced B. (un-) + (avoid) + (-able)
A. main stress C. (un-) + (a) + (void) + (-able)
B. phoneme D. (una-) + (voidable)
C. contractions
194. what are the vocal effects
D. phonemic script
A. tempo, volume, pitch
188. Phonological Pattern:/ki/→/ti/ B. cough, laughter, breath
A. Fronting C. intonation, stress, cough,
B. Stopping D. laughter, breath, intonation
C. Gliding 195. The ability to physically move the tongue,
D. Final Consonant Deletion lips, teeth and jaw to produce sequences
of speech sounds, which make up words
189. The following are all Phonological Rules
and sentences.
EXCEPT:
A. Phonation
A. Aspiration
B. Resonation
B. Vowel Lengthening
C. Articulation
C. Vowel Nasalization
D. Breathing
D. Allophonic variation
196. Complete closure along the vocal tract
190. Speech organ in producing /d/, /t/, and but leaving the velopharyngeal port open.
/n/, are? m, n, ng
A. hard palate and tip of tongue A. Nasals
B. Tip of tongue and gum ridge B. Liquids
C. Blade and hard palate C. Stops
D. Central tongue and Gum ridge D. none of above
191. Is the smallest unit of sound that has 197. Which is the stress pattern for the word
meaning in a language “engagement”?
A. phoneme A. Ooo
B. word stress B. oOo
C. phonemic script C. ooO
D. intonation D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 81
198. Which position is voiced and lenis conso- B. compounding

nants? C. agreement

A. initial D. conjugation
B. final
204. What is the basic syllabic structure?
C. medial
A. Nucleus
D. Both A, B are correct.
B. Nucleus and onset
199. ‘’The articulators used to form the stric-
C. Onset, nucleus, coda
ture are moved so as to allow air to es-
cape.” is which phase in a plosive articu- D. none of above
lation
205. Aspiration is defined as pronunciation
A. closing phase that involves a release of
B. compression phase A. vocals
C. release phase B. sound
D. post-release phase C. breath
200. w, r and y are all D. none of above
A. Fricatives 206. Any word may be emphasized to show
B. Nasals meaning.
C. Plosives A. Rising intonation
D. Approximants B. Falling intonation
201. The shortening effect of p, t, k on the C. Non-final intonation
vowels or diphthongs is called D. Conditional clause (Rising-falling)
A. pre-fortis clipping
207. What’s the phonology?
B. vowel shortening
A. branch of linguistics that studies the
C. pre-fortis shortening stock of words
D. none of above B. study of the internal structure of
words
202. A sound that requires the involvement of
the teeth and lips, such as “v, “ which in- C. study of the patterns of sounds
volves the upper teeth and lower lip. D. none of above
A. Palatal
208. Similar to vowels. Sounds where the
B. Labio-dental airstream is frictionless and is modified by
C. Glottal the position of the tongue and the lips. j,
w
D. none of above
A. Glides
203. In some languages, modifying a verb to
show more detail about the action is also B. Stops
known as C. Nasals
A. coordination D. none of above

2.3 Phonology 82
209. What is a hyponym 214. What age range do we cover in CLA

(Pearson)?
A. a singular word that is found in the
field of phonetics A. 0-10
B. a generic word with broad meanings B. 0-7
C. a word of more specific meaning than C. 0-6
a general or superordinate term applica- D. 0-8
ble to it.
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D. none of above 215. This consists of the passageway be-
tween the lips and nostrils on one end of
210. Vowel phonemes are described based the larynx
on the following physical dimensions EX- A. The lungs
CEPT
B. The Vocal Tract
A. tongue height
C. The Trachea
B. frontness
D. none of above
C. obstruents
216. Which is the normal neutral stress pat-
D. lip rounding
tern in the following question?What did he
211. a combination of two vowel sounds said say to you in the garden?
one after the other, as in the words ‘find’ A. what/ did he/ say/ garden
and ‘fail’
B. what / he say / garden
A. consonant
C. what/ say / you /garden
B. vowel D. did/say/ to/ garden
C. diphthong
217. consonance is
D. phoneme
A. repetition of initial consonant sounds
212. which of the following is not a set of ho- B. repetition of identical vowel sounds
mophones? within words
A. your and you’re C. repetition of consonant sounds in
B. their, there and they’re words
C. sea and see D. none of above
D. bee and wasp 218. How many consonants are there in the
English alphabet?
213. According to key theory, how many
stages of Spoken Language Development A. 23
are there? B. 22
A. 8 C. 24
B. 9 D. 21
C. 7
219. What is the branch of linguistics that
D. 2 investigates the ways in which sounds

2.3 Phonology 83
are used systematically in different lan- C. Bilabial

guages to form words and utterances? D. Velar

A. Phonetics
225. located at the back of the oral cavity, pos-
B. Phonics terior to the palatal area and anterior to
C. Phonotactics the uvula. /k/, /g/, ng
D. Phonology A. Labio-dental
B. Alveolar
220. If two phones contrast they are
C. Velar
A. levels of representation
D. none of above
B. places of articulation
C. allophones of different phonemes 226. th sh f s are examples of
D. none of above A. plosives
B. fricatives
221. Which are minimal pairs?
C. affricates
A. slight/spit
D. nasals
B. light/late
227. reflect how we imagine the impor-
C. won/one
tant sounds of our language.
D. none of above
A. Allophones
222. What is a syllable? B. Metaphors
A. The number of syllables in a word C. Phonemes
B. Is when the word has three syllables D. Morphemes
C. Is known as a single unbroken sound 228. What does RP mean?
of a spoken or written word. They usually
contain a vowel gather with a consonant. A. Reciprocal Pronunciation
D. none of above B. Reinforced Pronunciation

C. Random Pronunciation
223. It is the study of how speech sounds
D. Received Pronunciation
form patterns.
A. Language 229. Which is pronounced differently from
that of the others?
B. Linguistics
A. rose
C. Phonology
B. house
D. Phonetics
C. mouse
224. /l/-“silly” and “ladybug“-tongue tip D. practise
touches the gum and air passes through
the sides of the tongue. Select the correct 230. Which one the word below that can not
place of manner for this sound. include triphthong?
A. Palatal A. Tower
B. Alveolar B. Cake

2.3 Phonology 84
C. Tire B. Acronyms
D. Layer C. Alterations
231. Umbrella is an example of a word which D. Antonyms
has
237. what is phonetics
A. A two syllable.
A. study of speech sounds
B. B three syllables.
B. study of sound system of a language
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C. C four syllables.
C. study of sentence structure
D. none of above
D. study of structure of words
232. How many syllable in THAN?
238. Phonemes translate from Greek
A. 2
A. “a sound uttered”
B. 1
C. 3 B. “wrong writing”
D. none of above C. “speaking part”

D. none of above
233. Native speakers use the Schwa sound
when they are hesitating and it is usually 239. Many of the affixes used in English come
written from which two languages?
A. ooh A. Persian and French
B. oh B. Hebrew and Sanskrit
C. ah C. Latin and Greek
D. uh D. Italian and German
234. The theory of phonology makes use of all
240. What does phonology deal with?
the following concepts EXCEPT:
A. the pronunciation of a particular lan-
A. Segment
guage
B. Distinctive feature
B. the sound system of a particular lan-
C. Allophonic variation guage
D. Word-Formation Processes C. the acoustic properties of a particular
235. This is a single unit of sound. language
A. Dipthong D. the grammatical properties of a partic-

ular language
B. Phoneme
C. Contraction 241. Sound iconicity is
D. none of above A. when the sounds of the poem reflect
the intended meaning.
236. Frequently used phrases are often short-
B. the use of a sound in place of a word
ened by using the first letter of each word
to create new forms called C. a rhyme which isn’t true
A. Alliteration D. a special example of alliteration

2.3 Phonology 85
242. what is this? air passes through the C. Glottal

vocal tract, which turns into different
D. none of above
sounds, then exits the vocal tract via the

mouth or nose
248. bats
A. consonant production
A. /s/
B. speech sound production
B. /z/
C. vowel production
C. /less/
D. none of above
D. none of above
243. dishes
A. /s/ 249. What type of syllable ends with a vowel
and that vowel has a long sound?
B. /z/
A. Closed syllables
C. /ez/
B. Silent or Magic e
D. none of above
C. Open syllables
244. give the number of English diphthongs
D. none of above
A. 10
B. 8 250. What is schwa?
C. 6 A. the most underused consonant sound
D. 2 B. the most common sound in English
245. Which of the following grammatical cat- C. an silent phoneme
egories is NOT considered a content
D. none of above
word?
A. Preposition 251. The onset, nucleus and coda are of a
B. Adjective syllable (technical term!).
C. Noun A. components
D. Adverb B. constituents
246. This describes two words which sound C. segments

the same except for one sound. D. elements
A. Rhyme
252. English speakers pronounce these
B. Minimal pair phonemes very quickly when they occur
C. Phoneme after a stressed vowel and before an un-
stressed one.
D. none of above
A. Alveolar stops(/t/ and /d/)
247. Sounds made with major constriction in
the alveolar ridge area. ex. t, d, l, s, z, n, B. Voiced fricative
A. Alveolar C. palatal consonants
B. Palatal D. aspirated consonants

2.3 Phonology 86
253. This is the part of the word which we say and minimal sets is
with greater energy
A. The number of forms that compared
A. weak sylleble
B. The ways of forms are compared
B. phonemic symbol
C. The number of phrases that are com-
C. word stress
pared
D. rhythm
D. The procedures used to compared the
254. The difference between minimal pairs forms
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3. Morphology
3.1 Morphology concepts

1. Which plant parts carry sugars and other 5. The process of combining the beginning of
nutrients throughout the plant? one word and the end of another word to
A. phloem form a new word is called
B. xylem A. Conversion
C. roots B. Backformation
D. leaves C. Blending
2. Some would say Mrs. Roller is our D. Coinage

A. construct 6. The word ‘unconditional’ has affixes.
B. structure A. 3
C. instructor B. 2
D. infrastructure
C. 4
3. When new cell form in a stem, what hap- D. 5
pens?
A. The stem grows thicker 7. The root word meter means
B. The stem turns green A. to measure something in length
C. The stem falls over B. to measure something in weight
D. The plant dies C. to measure something in height
4. suffix “ify” means D. none of above

A. condition of 8. which type of placentation is found in sun-
B. to make flower?
C. state of A. marginal
D. most B. basal

3.1 Morphology concepts 88
C. free central 15. Enamel-forming cells are called

D. parietal A. ameloblasts
9. Quantitative affixes B. odontoblasts
A. Inattentive C. cementoblasts
B. Handful D. none of the above
C. Writer 16. What is the allomorph in the word chil-
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D. Rewash dren?
A. child
10. Which part holds the transportation sys-
tem for plant? B. -en
A. Xylem C. ren
B. Roots D. none of above
C. Stem 17. Which word has a different prefix?
D. Leaves A. Antecedent
11. ‘Americans’ has morphemes B. Antechamber
A. 2 C. Postdate
B. 4 D. Anterior
C. 3
18. How many morphemes are there in the
D. 1 word ‘immaturity’?
12. Which one is a compound word? A. 1
A. Rainfall B. 2
B. Falling C. 3
C. Return D. 4
D. Happily 19. neighborhood and kingdom are examples
13. happy → unhappy of
A. Level-changing lexeme formation A. inflectional morphemes
B. Category-changing lexeme formation B. Derivational morphemes
C. Meaning-changing lexeme formation C. Free morphemes
D. category and meaning-changing lex- D. none of above
eme formation
20. Verbs show
14. Eggs of silkworm are A. actions, processes, states or events
A. telolecithal B. shape, evaluation or size
B. centrolecithal C. express time, manner, place and de-
C. homolecithal gree
D. alecithal D. none of above

21. What meaningful word part carries the D. Is the root word
most important part of a word’s meaning
but usually cannot stand alone? 27. What type of placentaion is seen in sweet

pea?
A. prefix
A. Axile
B. root
B. Free central
C. suffix
C. Marginal
D. none of above
D. Basal
22. If a tooth has two roots, it is considered
28. You need skills as well as to be a good
athlete.
A. bifurcated
A. Strengthen
B. trifurcated
B. Strongly
C. concave
C. Strength
D. Strong
23. What is the clipped word of advertise-
ment 29. Which of the following words is an exam-
A. adv ple of blending?
B. adve A. ATM
C. ad B. emoticon
D. adver C. bookworm
D. mic
24. Which word does not belong?
A. sweeten 30. Vegetative reproduction of Agave occurs
B. dampen A. rhizome
C. lengthen B. stolon
D. height C. bulbils
D. sucker
25. Put the following in order:G2, G1, S, mito-
sis, cytokinesis. 31. Which of these words has a bound
A. G1, G2, S, Mitosis, cytokinesis stem:construct, deceive, introduce, re-
peat
B. G1, S, G2, Mitosis, cytokinesis
A. all of them
C. G1, G2, S, cytokinesis, mitosis
B. -ceive
D. G1, S, G2, cytokinesis, mitosis
C. duce
26. A suffix
D. peat
A. Appears at the beginning of the root
word 32. Which one of the following is correctly
B. Appears at the end of the root word matched?
C. Appears in the middle of the root word A. Onion-Bulb

B. Ginger-Sucker

C. Chlamydomonas-Conidia 38. Which of the following words contain the

phonological conditioning allomorph?
D. Yeast-Zoospores
A. Geese
33. Identify if this word has a derivational, in-
B. Children
flectional or both affixKINDNESS
C. Men
A. D
D. Fans
B. I
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C. both 39. Primary teeth finish erupting around what
age
D. none of above
A. 2 to 3 years of age
34. I have taken biology and psychology in col- B. 1 to 2 years of age
lege. The root word ology means
C. 5 to 12 months of age
A. the testing of
D. 3 to 7 years of age
B. the study of
40. What is the portion of the root seen in the
C. the answer of
oral cavity?
D. quit whining and keeping playingj!
A. Clinical Root
35. A word part added to the end of a word to B. Cervical Line
change the meaning is a
C. Cervical Third
A. Prefix D. Clinical Crown
B. Root
41. Which one of the following is a true fruit?
C. Verb
A. Apple
D. Suffix
B. Pear
36. One reason for having morphology is to C. Cashewnut
form new lexemes from old ones. We will
D. Coconut
refer to this as
A. type formation 42. The root word ‘phobia’ means:
B. token formation A. spiders
C. category formation B. dislike
D. lexeme formation C. fear
D. prefix
37. The college offers a course on map-
ping for engineers. 43. The word autocorrect has
A. typography A. two syllables
B. mapography B. a root
C. geographic C. a compound word
D. lithographic D. a suffix

44. fore 50. A meaningful word part that comes before

the root word.
A. before

A. prefix
B. after
B. suffix
C. during
C. predicate
D. optional
D. affix
45. The words with suffix show grammat-
51. List the bound morphemes in these
ical category and perform a grammatical
words:fearlessly, misleads, previewer,
function.
shortened, unhappier
A. Inflectional A. -less /-ly /-s
B. Derivational B. pre /-er / en
C. Both the above C. ed / un/er
D. None of the above D. All of them
46. The petiole connects the stem to the 52. How many morphemes in the
word:prefer?
A. Leaf Blade
A. 1
B. Root
B. 2
C. Margin
C. 3
D. Base
D. 4
47. what is the meaning of the prefix “div” 53. the suffix “ship” means
A. many A. state, or condition of
B. together B. one who
C. divide C. full of
D. two D. without
48. the prefix “dis” 54. After just 10 minutes of the exercise video,
Emerson found himself completely
A. ill
A. homeless
B. without
B. breathless
C. not apart, away
C. brainless
D. against
D. mindless
49. What is the root in the word prescribe? 55. Which statement is true, Morphology is
A. pre A. The study of form
B. scribe B. The study of Urban form
C. duct C. The study of type of the cities
D. or D. The study of geography

56. Which prefix means middle? C. Both the above

A. -in, -im D. None of the above
B. inter-
62. The maximum distance people are willing
C. mid- to travel for a service.
D. mis- A. range
57. The affixe “al” is added to a verb to give B. hearth
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a/an
C. hinterland
A. Noun
D. redlineing
B. Adjective
C. Verb 63. The tissue that covers the root is
D. All of this A. dentin

B. enamel
58. when the margins of sepals or petals over-
lap one another without any particular di- C. cementum
rection, the condition is termed as D. pulp
A. vexillary
64. Which of the following is the best descrip-
B. imbricate
tion of an Sc galaxy?
C. twisted
A. a barred spiral galaxy with a very
D. valvate bright nucleus
59. What is the process that results in two B. a spiral galaxy with loose, open arms
sounds becoming less alike in articula- C. a faint open cluster
tory or acoustic terms?example:library >
libary D. an irregular galaxy in the Sculptor clus-
ter
A. deletion
B. dissimilation 65. Which of the following is a derivational
C. epenthesis morpheme?
D. metathesis A. -ation in vocalization

B. -ation in vacation
60. What does the root bio mean?
C. -ation in nationality
A. life
D. -ation in station
B. to throw or toss
C. to speak 66. The words ‘beauty’ and ‘beautiful’ are ex-
D. health amples of class affixation.
A. Maintaining
61. A morpheme has independent mean-
ing & can stand alone. B. Changing
A. Bound morpheme C. Both the above
B. Free morpheme D. None of the above

67. The anterior teeth are from 73. Which of the following is not a stem modi-
A. lateral to lateral fication?

B. cuspid to cuspid A. Thorns of Citrus
C. first premolar to first premolar B. Tendrils of cucumber
D. maxillary to mandibular C. Flattened structures of Opuntia

D. Pitcher of Nepenthes
68. The development of different forms is
known as 74. What force holds the contents of galaxies
A. histodifferentiation together?
B. cytodifferentiation A. The weak nuclear force
C. morphodifferentiation B. The electromagnetic force
D. deposition C. Gravity
D. The strong nuclear force
69. Florence and Siena has common factor of
urban form which is 75. What do the suffixes-ance/-ence mean?
A. Religion (e.g. importance/intelligence)
B. Water A. action of / result of
C. Road B. relating to
D. Politic C. quality of
D. state or condition
70. What does suffix-ness mean? (e.g. dark-
ness) 76. What shape is spirillum
A. quality and state of A. Spherical
B. relating to B. Rod
C. the result of C. Spiral
D. state of or condition D. Square
71. What is the clipped word of flatiron 77. Able is an example of a

A. flat A. syllable
B. fla B. prefix
C. flati C. suffix
D. iron D. root
72. Which part of the word “irregularly” is the 78. Which of the following is not a clipped
root? word?
A. ir A. bus
B. regular B. bra
C. ly C. cat
D. none of above D. ad

79. In unilocular vary with a single ovule, the 85. Stilt roots grow from-
placentaion is A. Lower internodes
A. marginal B. Lower nodes
B. basal C. Upper nodes
C. free central D. Upper internodes
D. axile 86. A root is generally
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80. The word “insurance” consists of mor- A. bound
pheme. B. free
A. two C. easy
B. three D. simple
C. four 87. What does the prefix pre-mean?
D. none of above A. Before
81. Keel is characteristic of the flowers of B. During

C. After
A. Gulmohur
D. Never
B. Cassia
C. Calotropis 88. What is the clipped word of influenza
A. flu
D. Beans
B. influe
82. The word “brunch” is morphologically cat-
C. influ
egorized as
D. nza
A. Blending
89. What is the clipped word of doctor
B. Compounding
A. do
C. Clipping
B. docto
D. Conversion
C. doc
83. Multi-means D. doctor
A. together
90. The embryo in sunflower has
B. many A. one cotyledon
C. in front of B. two cotyledons
D. middle C. many cotyledons
84. If we divide the word “computer” into D. no cotyledon
compute + er we are doing: 91. -ize &’s
A. Morphological analysis A. infixes
B. Semantic analysis B. Prefixes
C. Syntactic analysis C. Suffixes
D. Orthographic analysis D. Bound affixes

92. The development of the city in classi- C. How healthy the tree is
cal times shows that the holder of state D. What fruit the tree grows
power is not always in the hands of kings

and nobles, but also in the hands of follow 98. I need butter on that table to butter this
except bread. The different word classes of the
A. military commanders underlined words belong to the word for-
mation process called
B. religious leaders
A. Acronym
C. communities
B. Compounding
D. rebels
C. Conversion
93. Which plant parts are the tubes that carry
water throughout the plant? D. Backformation
A. xylem 99. People have studied the stars for years.

B. phloem In fact, some of the oldest scientific
records were created by
C. roots
A. scientologists
D. leaves
B. astronomers
94. What’s the main function of the leaf?
C. geologists
A. Absorb Sunlight
D. biologists
B. Make Food
C. Attract Insects 100. How many instar of larva exist in silk-
worm
D. Move Water and Minerals
A. 3
95. A pentagon has sides. B. 4
A. 10
C. 5
B. 100
D. none
C. 5
101. Eosin is used to stain which part of the
D. 2
cell?
96. Which is an example of a tumor suppres- A. Nucleus
sor gene?
B. Cheek
A. apoptosis
C. Cytoplasm
B. proto-oncogenes
D. Mitochondria
C. p53
D. oncogenes 102. mega-as in megastore
A. Initialisms
97. If you cut down a tree and look inside, the
xylem tell you B. Blending
A. What type of tree it is C. Augmentatives
B. How old the tree is D. Diminutives

103. Lexicology can be defined as 109. Content words

A. The study of the structure of words A. carry real world meaning
B. The study of only morphemes B. Exist to perform a job
C. The study of synonyms C. Provide extra information about place
D. The study of the meaning of words
D. Talk about the main topic
104. Alex has such a guilty conscience, he con-
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fessed to something he didn’t even do. 110. which of the following words comes from
What does conscience mean acronym?
A. knowing right from wrong A. smog
B. knowing left from right B. bacteria
C. knowing wrong from wrong C. laser
D. knowing right from right D. text
105. English speakers recognize that the 111. Morphology refers to
words dog and dogs are closely related.
What does mean the letter “s”? A. Biochemical tests
A. Plurality morpheme “-s”. B. Size, shape, arrangement
B. That means apostrophe. C. The cell wall
C. Doesn’t mean anything at all. D. Staining
D. The morpheme of the letter “g”. 112. Thousands of people have taken part in
that democracy demonstration.
106. Morphology means
A. dis-
A. Study of plants
B. Study of flowers B. back-
C. Physics appearance C. sub-
D. Non of these D. anti-
107. What is the clipped word of mathematics 113. In pea flower, the stamens are
A. math A. Free
B. tics B. Monoadelphous
C. mat C. Diadelphous
D. mathematic D. Polyadelphous
108. What is the functions of Incisors teeth? 114. the prefix “pre” means
A. for swallow the food A. one, single
B. for cutting and chopping food B. within, inside
C. for crushing food C. before
D. for grinding food D. against

115. How many plants among Indigofera, 120. The word “painted” is pronounced with
Sesbania, Salvia, Allium, Aloe, mustard,
groundnut, radish, gram and turnip have

A. /t/
stamens with different lengths in their
flowers? B. /d/
A. Three C. /id/
B. Four D. none of above
C. Five 121. The prefixes in-, im-, il-, and ir-mean
D. Six A. under, below
116. Identify the correct statement: B. before
A. Hypogynous flowers have inferior C. not, opposite

ovary D. too much
B. Perigynous flowers have inferior ovary
122. To change the meaning of “respectful”
C. Hypogynous flowers have superior

A. Add the prefix “dis”
ovary
B. Add the prefix “un”
D. Epigynous flowers have superior ovary
C. Add the suffix “able”
117. A leaf margin that DOES NOT contain
D. Add the suffix “ish”
teeth is called
A. entire 123. quad
B. serrate A. two
C. lobed B. one
D. none of above C. four
D. three
118. They could not hide their disappoint
at their low grades. 124. What shape is coccus
A. -less A. Spherical
B. -ment B. Rod
C. -y C. Spiral
D. -ion D. Square
119. mono 125. What does ‘tract’ mean?

A. two A. to pull, drag, or draw
B. one B. to carry
C. four C. to cut or divide
D. ten D. to throw, hurl, or lie

126. Look at these words:MOUSE-MICE 132. Stars in galaxies move in randomly

A. ZERO oriented orbits like a swarm of bees
B. SUPPLETIVE A. Irregular
C. ADDITIVE B. Barred Spiral
D. none of above C. Elliptical
D. Spiral
127. Stem modified into flat green organs per-
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forming the functions of leaves are known 133. Truck driver
as
A. Inattentive
A. phyllodes
B. Subordinative compounds
B. phylloclades
C. Synthetic compounds
C. scales
D. cladodes D. Coordinative compounds
128. What does “scrib” mean? 134. Negative and privative affixes
A. write A. Inattentive
B. throw B. Runner
C. move up or step up C. Writer
D. earth D. Rewash
129. ‘Unclean’ has a/an 135. What are the types of word formation
A. Derivational prefix called?
B. Inflectional prefix A. Derivation and compounding.
C. Derivational suffix B. Root and Composition.
D. Inflectional suffix C. Letters and numbers.
130. Do you know how long I’ve been waiting D. Words and roots
A. en 136. Which prefix means before?

B. ing A. pre-
C. en / ing B. non-
D. none C. over-
131. Which of the following plants have pneu- D. mis-
matophores?Maize Maize Sweet potato
Sweet potato Rhizophora Rhizophora Sug- 137. This is a morpheme that is placed at the
arcane Sugarcane end of a word
A. Sweet potato A. a prefix
B. Rhizophora B. a suffix
C. Sugarcane C. a root
D. Maiza D. a morpheme

138. Choose the example principal 5! C. Morphemes

A. here, head D. none of above

B. see, saw 144. What is morpheme?
C. two, to A. The smallest unit of a particular lan-
D. all answers are correct guage
139. the standard petal of a popilionaceous B. The smallest meaningful unit of word
corolla is also called C. The minimal item of a linguistic unit
A. pappus D. The minimal pairof a chosen phrase
B. vexillum 145. post
C. corona A. before
D. carina B. after
140. suffix “ology” and “logy” mean C. during
A. the belief in D. optional
B. study of 146. Morphology studies
C. without A. sentence formation
D. inflammation of B. word formation
141. If you have been at sea for many days, C. the meaning of words
you may want to find a to dock your D. word pronunciation
boat.
A. aquaduct 147. Which is not the function of stems?
B. hydrant A. Water absorption
C. marina B. Support
D. merina C. Transportation
D. Food storage
142. Each quadrant of the permanent den-
tition contains teeth, whereas each 148. SELECT THE KIND OF ALLOMORPHS
quadrant of the primary dentition contains A. REPLACIVE, SUPPLETIVE, ZERO, SUB-
teeth. STRACTIVE, ADDITIVE
A. 32; 20 B. SUPPLETIVE, FORMATIVE, SECUEN-
B. 16; 10 CIAL, ZERO, SUBSTRACTIVE
C. 8; 5 C. ZERO, REPLACIVE, SUPPLETIVE, SUB-
D. 10; 16 STRACTIVE, ACRONYM
D. none of above
143. Basic elements of meaning which are
used in a language/Minimal units of mean- 149. The bad behavior of the students will
ing or grammatical function have an unpleasant
A. Phonemes A. Consequence
B. Phones B. Consequent

C. Consequently C. Sba
D. Consequences D. Sbc
150. What is a Prefix? 156. How many permanent teeth are there in-
cluding wisdom teeth?
A. The ending root of a word
A. 20
B. a fix of a word before you say it
B. 32
C. People that study ants
C. 16
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D. The beginning root of a word
D. 28
151. Which Prefix is being used in each of 157. Arrangement of flowers on floral axis is
these examples:procedure, protrude, pro- called-
crastinate, produce, and proclaim
A. Placentation
A. -ure
B. Phyllotaxy
B. pro-
C. Inflorescence
C. -e D. Angiology
D. pr-
158. Non-albuminous seed is porduced in
152. Root hairs develop from the region of A. maize
A. Maturation B. castor
B. Elongation C. wheat
C. Root Cap D. pea
D. none of above 159. Which word best fits this definition?To
show or indicate beforehand
153. She has little aware of the danger
she will face. A. preapprove
A. -ness B. foreshadow
B. -fy C. preheat
D. forearm
C. -ly
D. -ion 160. The technical term used for the androe-
cium in a flower of China rose
154. What does the prefix “centi” mean? A. monadelphous
A. one hundredth B. diadelphous
B. one minute C. polyandrous
C. one thousand D. polyadelphous
D. one century 161. What does the prefix fore-mean?
155. A barred spiral with a bright nucleus and A. away
tightly wound spiral arms is classified B. opposite
A. Sc C. before
B. Sb D. one who

162. Teacher, speaker, conductor all have a 168. A derivational morpheme

A. root A. Makes an old word from new ones

B. prefix B. Makes a new word from old ones
C. suffix C. Does not change the part of speech or
the basic meaning of a word.
D. morpheme
D. Does not occur “inside” any inflec-
163. Roots play insignificant role in absorp- tional affixes
tion of water in
169. Work is very these days for me be-
A. sunflower cause I have a new teammate and he is
B. Pistia so hesitant to do anything.
A. Stress
C. pea
B. Stressfull
D. wheat
C. Stressed
164. The prefix non-means D. Stressful
A. after
170. The prefix dec-means
B. above, beyond
A. ten
C. too much B. hundred
D. not, opposite C. half
165. Some samples of free morphemes D. five
A. sit, work, alone 171. Which of the following is a morheme?
B. lullaby, camera, post A. { s }
C. posts, lonely, culture B. [ s ]
D. none of above C. / s /
D. s
166. The suffix ‘ology’ means:
172. The smallest unit of language that hasits
A. small
own meaning
B. possible A. Morpheme
C. study of B. Free morpheme
D. read C. Bound Morpheme
167. There was some agreement over D. Word
the bill. It looked higher than the actual 173. Complete the sentence according to the
price. text:A free morpheme
A. pre- A. Cannot occur as separate words
B. bi- B. Is not a word
C. dis- C. Does not have meaning
D. super- D. Can occur as separate words

174. We learn morphology to 180. A new word which is formed from the ini-
tial letters of other words is called
A. learn our number sense
A. Clipping
B. improve our cursive skills
B. Acronym
C. be able to break apart hard words
C. Compounding
D. be able to break apart hard math prob-
lems D. Blending
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175. Television has the root 181. Identify the PREFIX
A. vis A. Abnormal
B. vision B. Emotional
C. on C. Teacher
D. tele D. Musical
176. WHat does G tell us about position of 182. in

ovary in a flower?
A. one who
A. ovary is inferior
B. full of
B. ovary is superior
C. made of; to make
C. flower is perigynous
D. a person
D. flower is epigynous
183. the prefix “trans”
177. uni
A. completely, more
A. two
B. throughout
B. one
C. talking
C. four
D. across, over, beyond,
D. ten
184. The allomorph /iz/ is used when the
178. rider word is preceded by
A. free morpheme A. Sonorant
B. bound morpheme B. Lateral
C. inflectional morpheme C. Rhotic
D. derivational morpheme D. Sibilant
179. Which of these is an adjective? 185. How many are the inflectional suffixes?
A. Them A. 2
B. faster B. 6
C. could C. 4
D. every D. 8

186. “A triangle has four sides” is an example 192. liaison → liaise

of a sentence. A. Conversion

A. Contradictory B. Subordinative compounds
B. Synthetic C. Synthetic compounds
C. Analytic D. Backformation
D. none of above
193. Which does not belong
187. More than one inflectional suffix can be A. spectacles
attached to a root.
B. inspect
A. True
C. infestation
B. False
D. spectator
C. May be
D. None of the above 194. What prefix does NOT mean “against” or
“war”
188. After fertilisation, the seeds are formed A. anti
inside the
B. pre
A. ovule
C. contra
B. ovary
D. belli
C. flower
D. stalk 195. Vegetation propagation in mint occurs
by
189. The prefix ‘sub’ means: A. runner
A. dog B. offset
B. create C. rhizome
C. above D. sucker
D. under
196. If your room is in disorder, what does it
190. Vexillary aestivation is characteristic of look like?
the family A. Empty
A. Fabaceae B. Full
B. Asteraceae C. Clean
C. Solanaceae D. Messy
D. Brassicaceae
197. The morphology of English unlike that of
191. Fish → to fish other languages is:
A. Conversion A. Simple
B. Subordinative compounds B. Difficult
C. Synthetic compounds C. The most complicated.
D. Coordinative compounds D. No one would understand

198. What does fluoride help with? 204. Which of the following latin roots means
A. Makes your teeth stronger to send?
A. ject
B. Makes your teeth whiter
B. port
C. Gives fresh fresh
C. aud
D. Gives healthier gums
D. mit
199. The study of the structure and form of
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the teeth is 205. In a cereal grain the single cotyledon of
embryo is represented by
A. tooth morphology
A. scutellum
B. embryology
B. prophyll
C. histology
C. coleoptile
D. none of the above D. colearhiza
200. The opening in the apical portion of each 206. There are molars in the permanent
root is the dentition.
A. buccal groove A. 8
B. cingulum B. 4
C. apex C. 16
D. apical foramen D. 12
201. suffix “hood” means 207. What do we call the small leaf-like struc-
tures that attach to a single petiole.
A. state of being
A. Leaf Blade
B. female
B. Leaflets
C. past tense
C. Leaves
D. full of
D. Lets of Leaves
202. Which prefix means opposite, wrong
208. The universal numbers of the maxillary
A. en central incisors are
B. mis A. 7, 8
C. pre B. 24, 25
D. un C. 8, 9
D. 9, 10
203. Which part of the word “uncomfortable”
is the suffix? 209. Which teeth tend to erupt last?
A. un A. deciduous teeth
B. comfort B. adult teeth
C. able C. wisdom teeth
D. none of above D. false teeth

210. Charly is only my half-brother because 216. The term polyadelphous is related to
we have mothers.
A. Gynoecium

A. Difference
B. Corolla
B. Different
C. Androecium
C. Differ
D. none of above
D. Differentiate
217. What is the clipped word of cafeteria
211. If you study hard, you can in this
test. A. caf
A. Success B. teria
B. Succeed C. cafe
C. Successful D. cafeter
D. Successfully
218. One example of acronym is
212. In the English language derivational mor- A. Radar
phemes can be
B. Fireman
A. Suffixes and Infixes
C. Waistcoat
B. Prefixes and Suffixes
D. Frisbee
C. Suffixes only
D. none of above 219. What is the root of this word, UNBELIE-
VEABLE
213. What root means to hear?
A. Unbelieve
A. audi
B. Believeable
B. mem
C. Believe
C. gest
D. none of above
D. side
220. The oral cavity contains how many quad-
214. Destruct has the root rants?
A. de
A. one
B. struct
B. two
C. uct
C. three
D. st
D. four
215. Where two teeth come together and
touch. 221. Cymose inflorescence is present in
A. Mesial A. Sesbania
B. Adjacent B. solanum
C. Contact Area C. Trifolium
D. Apex D. Brassica

222. Which type of venation pattern never al- 228. In some leguminous plants the leaf base
lows the veins to cross? becomes swollen which is called
A. Netted A. leaf sheath
B. Parallel B. bulbil
C. Dichotomous C. thalamus
D. none of above D. Pulvinus
223. Which of these sets of lexical items ex- 229. Which word is the adverb in the follow-
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hibits a derivational process? ing sentence? The clumsy horse trotted
A. Red, redden slowly down the track.
B. Big, bigger A. clumsy
C. Work, working B. horse
D. Child, children C. trotted
D. slowly
224. If something is cyclical shaped, it is
A. rectangular 230. Which part of the word “uncomfortable”
is the prefix?
B. round
A. un
C. triangular
B. comfort
D. prism
C. able
225. What three things does a plant need to D. none of above
take in to be able to go through photosyn-
thesis? 231. Was, do, has and every are all examples
A. sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide of
B. sunlight, water, and oxygen A. Adjectives
C. oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen B. Auxiliary verbs
D. water, oxygen, and glucose C. Determiners
226. What is the smallest linguistic unit that
has meaning or grammatical function? 232. The prefix ‘post’ means:
A. allomorph A. before
B. assimilation B. after
C. epenthesis C. during
D. morpheme D. in the future
227. How many morphemes consist in word 233. The word “Singlish” is one type of blend-
“women’s”? ing process which is
A. 1 A. Total blending
B. 2 B. Partial blending
C. 3 C. Initial blending
D. 4 D. Final blending

234. Silk worm is C. Misunderstood

A. ametabolous D. Miscommunication

B. holometabolous 240. What does the word ‘autotransfusion’
C. hemimetabolous mean?
D. none of the above A. receiving own blood
B. receiving the blood of donor’s
235. What do plants produce that animals, in-
C. receiving own organ
cluding humans, benefit from for their sur-
vival? D. receiving the organ of donor’s
A. food and oxygen 241. The correct name for teeth is
B. water and carbon dioxide A. Dentition
C. oxygen only B. Maxillary
D. glucose and carbon dioxide C. Mandibular
D. Ccclusion
236. The prefix il-means the same as which of
the following prefixes? 242. Which part of the coconut produces
coir?
A. mis-
A. Seed coat
B. contra-
B. Mesocarp
C. im-
C. Epicarp
D. inter-
D. Pericarp
237. This kind of morpheme carries the main
243. The ‘eyes’ of the potato tuber are
meaning of a word. “Cycle” is an example
of one of these. A. flower buds
A. suffix B. shoot buds
B. prefix C. axillary buds

D. root buds
C. word
D. root 244. The word “trends” is pronounced with
238. What does the second U stand for in A. /s/

DUUL
B. /z/
A. Use your brain
C. /iz/
B. Use the dictionary
D. none of above
C. Use word parts
245. Incision in the leaf does not reach the
D. Use context clues midrib in
239. Which word does NOT have the prefix A. Simple leaf
“mis” which means “wrong” B. Bipinnately compound leaf
A. Misuse C. Tripinnately compound leaf
B. Mister D. More than one option is correct

246. the suffix “able” means 252. What shape is bacillus (think blunt)
A. act of A. Spherical
B. state of being B. Rod
C. can do, can be done C. Spiral
D. small in size
D. Square
247. If you are in a triathlon, you participate
253. Which part of the tooth is the hardest?
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in events.
A. 1 A. Dentin
B. 2 B. Pulp
C. 3 C. Enamel
D. 4 D. Cementum
248. Variants of a morpheme; the plural mor- 254. The prefix contra-means
pheme has many allomorphs:/s/, /z/, etc
A. against
A. Morphs
B. Morphemes B. opposite
C. Allomorphs C. similar
D. none of above D. before
249. What do these words have in common? 255. The noun “pen” has syntactic forms.
midnight, disable, endanger
A. 2
A. they all have a root
B. 3
B. they all have a suffix
C. 4
C. they all have long vowels
D. they all have a prefix D. 5
250. What is a series of events a cell goes 256. unbroken has morphemes
through as they grow and divide? A. 4
A. Cell Division B. 2
B. Cell Cycle
C. 3
C. Cytokinesis
D. 1
D. Mitosis
257. A multi-meaning word
251. Roots developed from parts of the plant
other than the radicle will be called A. has one meaning
A. Adventitious Roots B. is always used with another
B. Tap root C. has more than one meaning
C. Fibrous Roor D. is only used when writing for many
D. False Roots people

258. Flowers are unisexual in 264. City that affected by religion is

A. pea A. Mecca

B. cucumber B. Florence
C. China rose C. Hongkong
D. onion D. Surabaya
259. Root word meaning ‘believe’ 265. The word “Google” was formed through
the process of
A. act
A. Acronym
B. bio
B. Blending
C. sol
C. Conversion
D. cred
D. Coinage
260. Woody stem of trees are called
266. Dave is a who works for an oil com-
A. Chlorophyll pany. He helps map out the drill sites.
B. Trunk A. geologist
C. Leaves B. mappist
D. Runner C. sitologist
261. Identify if this word has a derivational, D. biologist
inflectional or both affixBigger
267. The tooth surface that is on the tongue
A. D side is the
B. I A. facial
C. both B. lingual
D. none of above C. mesial
262. What does the D in DUUL stand for? D. distal
A. Dictionary definition 268. How to structure the sentence?

B. Determine the meaning A. Noun phrase (subject), verb phrase
(predicate)
C. Determine your future
B. Noun and pronoun
D. Determine the importance
C. Article and noun
263. Complete the sentence according to the
D. Verb and object
text:There are many other ways of extend-
ing this structure by embedding subordi- 269. The morpheme that determines the cate-
nate phrases at different parts of the gory of the entire word is called the
A. Rules A. root
B. Syntax B. base
C. Basic C. stem
D. Basic structure D. head

270. ENDOSPERM IS FORMED DUE TO FU- 276. The suffix “ism” means
SION OF A. act or process of
A. EGG WITH FIRST MALE GAMETE B. make believe
B. EGG WITH SEC NUCLEI C. the belief of
C. SECOND MALE GAMETE WITH POLAR D. the study of
NUCLEI
277. Where would you find a subheading?
D. NONE OF THESE
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A. at the top of the page
271. The plan is designed to employees to
B. at the bottom of the page
work more efficiently.
C. under the main heading
A. Motivation
D. in the margin
B. Motivate
C. Motivating 278. Which one of the following statements is
correct?
D. Motivated
A. The seed in grasses is not endosper-
272. Axile placentation is present in mic
A. dianthus B. Mango is a parthenocarpic fruit
B. lemon C. A proteinaceous aleurone layer is
present in maize grain
C. pea
D. A sterile pistil is called a staminode
D. Argemone
279. h graders have no memory at all. No
273. Which of these subjects are included in
memory means
diachronic analysis?
A. no mind
A. Built Environment
B. no sense
B. Natural Environment
C. no recall
C. Road Structure
D. no manners
D. All of the above
280. What secures the tooth into the socket
274. If you are speaking softly, your voice is by a number of organized fiber groups?
probably barely to others.
A. Alveolar crest
A. memorable
B. Lamina dura
B. audible
C. Periodontal ligaments
C. scriptable
D. Interdental septum
D. phonable
281. A suffix is
275. In which structure do seeds develop?
A. a morpheme that goes at the end
A. Anther B. a morpheme that goes at the begin-
B. Ovary ning
C. Pollen Grain C. a unit of sound
D. Spore D. none of the above

282. The first permanent tooth usually erupts C. glasses that help someone see better
at age D. when you look closely at something

A. 6 months
288. In Bougainvillea thorns are the modifica-
B. 6 years tions of
C. 12 years A. stipules
D. 21 years B. adventitious root
283. What does the whole word ‘atheist’ C. stem
mean? D. leag
A. A person who believes in just one God
289. What does mindless mean?
A. no brain
B. A person who doesn’t like the letter ‘A’
B. brilliant
C. A person who does not believe in God C. clever
D. A person who believes in all Gods D. without thinking
284. shaped galaxies sometimes are the 290. Which tooth has the longest root in the
result of collisions or interactions with maxillary arch?
other galaxies A. Central
A. Irregular B. First molar
B. Elliptical C. Cuspid
C. Barred Spiral D. Lateral
D. Spiral 291. In the word ‘unhappy’, there are mor-
phemes.
285. Which part of the word “uncomfortable”
is the root? A. 2
A. un B. 3
B. comfort C. 7
C. able D. 4
D. none of above 292. The suffix is an inflectional morpheme in

the word .
286. Flect/flex is a
A. Civilize
A. root
B. Privacy
B. syllable
C. Closed
C. suffix
D. Government
D. prefix
293. A is the smallest unit of meaning is a
287. Spectacles are word.
A. a way of listening to someone’s POV A. Phoneme
B. someone who watches B. Morpheme

C. Meme C. Trust
D. Morphology D. Plato mixed with kinetic sand
294. Netted veins are a venation pattern 300. She wants to be a businesswoman.
where the veins A. Success
A. form a branching pattern B. Succeed
B. never cross C. Successful
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C. divides into smaller veins D. Successfully
D. possess a dominate midrib 301. What does the prefix diplo-refer to
295. When talking about the margin, what is A. A chain

NOT a common type of margin? B. A pair
A. Entire C. A clump or cluster
B. Serrate D. A group of four
C. Lobe 302. One of the purposes of analysing the in-
D. Cunneate ternal structure of sentences is:
A. To demonstrate the relatedness of cer-
296. lens tain sentences
A. free morpheme B. To reveal errors in the sentences
B. bound morpheme C. To make the languages more difficult
C. inflectional morpheme D. None of the previous options
D. derivational morpheme 303. Root word meaning ‘life’
297. Change “y” to “i” at the end of a word A. act
A. when you add any suffix B. bio
B. when you add s C. sol

D. cred
C. when you add er, est or es
D. when you add any suffix that starts 304. Addition of prefix and suffix both is pos-
with a vowel sible in case of
A. Inflectional
298. How many morphemes in the
word:unkindness? B. Derivational
C. Both the above
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3 305. An animal that walks on two legs is called
a
D. 4
A. uniped
299. What does Unreliability Mean? B. biped
A. Incapable C. triped
B. Incapable of relying on someone D. quadpod

306. Modem is a word that is formed by 312. The study of word formation
A. Acronym A. Syntax

B. Blending B. Phonology
C. Clipping C. Morpholoqy
D. Compounding D. Morphology
307. Forming new lexemes from oldones 313. Definition of a “Morpheme”

A. Phrase formation A. “A minimal unit of meaning or gram-
matical function.”
B. Word formation
B. ” Understanding sentence formation.”
C. Lexeme formation
D. Free formation C. ” Learning the correct pronunciation of
308. If it is an situation, it is quite normal words”.
to react D. none of above
A. Emotion-emotionally 314. When do you take a posttest?
B. Emotionally-emotional A. after the lesson
C. Emotional-emotionally B. before the lesson
D. Emotional-emotion C. in the middle of the lesson
309. Aqua can be a shade of the color blue, or D. at home over the summer
it can mean
315. Which tooth-numbering system is used
A. sand most often in the United States?
B. oxygen A. Palmer
C. water B. Federation Dentair
D. plants C. International Standard
310. Describe the underlined affix:oxen D. Universal
A. inflectional prefix 316. What does the root “chron” mean?

B. inflectional suffix A. time
C. derivational prefix B. minute
D. derivational suffix C. hour
D. day
311. Rain forests are a type of that sup-
port a variety of habitats, fauna, and 317. Which teeth are sometimes congenitally
flora. missing?
A. biome A. maxillary centrals
B. dome B. mandibular centrals
C. biography C. maxillary cuspids
D. geodome D. maxillary laterals

318. Use the meaning of the prefix to deter- 324. Identify if this word has a derivational,
mine the meaning of foreground inflectional or both affixWALKED
A. the back part of a painting A. I
B. the part of a view that is closest to the B. D
observer (in the front)
C. both
C. the last part of a test
D. none of above
D. in trouble
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325. cule, ling
319. What is the clipped word of automobile
A. result of action
A. autom
B. full of
B. mobile
C. system
C. auto
D. very small
D. aut
326. What does Morphology mean?
320. Wipe, head, bracelet, McDonald
A. the study of or the science of
A. Lexeme formation
B. thinking about thinking
B. Free morphemes
C. the study of the forms of words
C. Bound morphemes
D. all of the above
D. Derivation
327. Cementum-forming cells are called
321. Edible part in mango is
A. ameloblasts
A. mesocarp
B. epicarp B. odontoblasts
C. endocarp C. cementoblasts
D. epidemis D. none of the above
322. Which definition best describes disown? 328. Which suffix is used in all of these exam-
ples:capture, exposure, procedure, fea-
A. a plate to serve a special family dinner ture, and conjecture
on
A. -ure
B. to sew again
B. -re
C. to push away from a group, to deny
ownership C. -ture
D. to take away from a group D. none of the above
323. Which among the following is not a mod- 329. One of the following is not a bound mor-
ified stem for storage purpose? pheme
A. Ginger A. Lexical Morpheme
B. Zaminkand B. Inflectional Morpheme
C. Turmeric C. Derivational Morpheme
D. Sweet potato D. none of above

330. Methylene blue should be used to stain 336. The entered a contest in time.
which part of the cell? A. Participation

A. Elodea B. Participant
B. Nucleus C. Participate
C. Cytoplasm
D. Participative
D. Skin
337. The two structures that limit transpira-
331. Phyllode is present in tion or regulate water loss in the plant are
A. Asparagus known as
B. Euphorbia A. Guard cells and xylem
C. Australian Acacia B. Stomata and guard cells
D. Opuntia C. xylem and phloem
332. The central city and its surrounding sub- D. stomata and phloem
urbs is known as a 338. There are teeth in a quadrant of the
A. Megalopolis primary dentition.
B. Zoning Laws A. 5
C. Urban Morphology B. 10
D. Urban Area C. 20
333. Are the levels of phonology, syntax, D. 8
semantics and pragmatics possibly in-
339. The base to which an inflectional affix is
evitable?
added
A. No
A. Morpheme
B. Yes
B. Affix
C. None of the above
C. Stem
D. It isn’t in the text
D. none of above
334. How many morphemes does the word
“antiestablishment” have? 340. Pea flower is an example for
A. 2 A. Actinomorphic
B. 3 B. Zygomorphic
C. 4 C. Asymmetric
335. An abnormal mass of cancer cells is 341. What is the present tense of the word ’re-
called a turn’?
A. tumor A. Repeat
B. cyst B. returns
C. lesion C. Repeat
D. polyp D. none of above

342. Vivipary is 347. Look at these words:sing-sang

A. seed germination with subterranean A. ZERO
cotyledons B. ADDITIVE
B. seed germination with epiterranean C. SUBSTRACTIVE
cotyledons
D. REPLACIVE
C. fruit development without pollination
D. seed germination inside the fruit while 348. What type of morpheme is the suffix
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attached to the plant ‘less’ in the word ‘thoughtless’?
A. an inflectional morpheme
343. What is a sac-like structure used to store
B. a derivational morpheme
water and nutrients? These are much
larger in plant cells? C. a lexical morpheme
A. Lysosomes D. none of above
B. Mitochondria 349. Churchill’s active life began when
C. Vacuoles Queen Victoria still reigned.
D. Golgi Body A. Political

B. Politics
344. Acceptable
C. Politic
A. Usually thought of as the right or nor-
D. Politician
mal way of doing things
B. Something that is incorrect 350. study of
C. Worthy of honor or high respect A. bio
D. Worthy of respect or admiration for do- B. from-
ing something good C. -ful
345. What does the prefix strepto-refer to D. ology
A. A chain 351. The prefix mal-means

B. A pair A. not
C. A clump or cluster B. bad, ill
D. A group of four C. against
D. over
346. Semantics is .
A. The study of word formation 352. Placenta and pericarp are both edible
portions in
B. The study of the sound system of lan-
guage A. apple
C. The study of meaning of words, B. banana

phrases and sentences C. tomata
D. none of above D. potato

353. Plant having column of vascular tissues, 359. The posterior teeth include the and
bearing fruits and having a tap root sys- the
tem is A. canines; premolars

A. monocot B. premolars; molars
B. dicot C. incisors; molars
C. gymnosperm or dicot D. incisors; canines
D. gymnosperm or monocot
360. Which tooth tissue gives the tooth its sen-
354. Pick the answer that has derivatives of sory function
the same root word. A. pulp
A. happy, merry, excited, B. enamel
B. good, bad C. cementum
C. car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle D. dentin
D. read, reread, readability, reading 361. Morphologically, Chinese employs ( ) as
355. How do water enter the roots from the a productive method of word formation
soil? A. derivation
A. diffusion B. inflection
B. osmosis C. compounding
C. transpiration D. none of above
D. active transport 362. Radial symmetry is found in the flowers
of
356. When an invention or a new thing is
named, that is A. Brassica
A. Neologism B. Trifolium
B. Deonym C. Pisum
C. Namesake D. Cassia
D. Eponym 363. The process of forming a new word by
removing actual or supposed affixes from
357. Construction another word (for example, edit and edi-
A. to take apart, destroy tor) is called
B. the building or forming by putting to- A. Blending
gether parts B. Acronym
C. something built or constructed C. Backformation
D. the right way of doing things D. Conversion
358. The original word of “sport” is: 364. What does the prefix “bi” mean?
A. sportif A. two
B. sportive B. one
C. disport C. ten
D. import D. five

365. The study of forms 371. What is the pair of phrases which are ho-
A. Phonetics mophobic?
A. allomorph
B. Phonology
B. deletion
C. Morphology
C. morpheme
D. none of above
D. oronyms
366. is an edible underground stem.
372. Cymose inflorescence is identified by-
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A. Sweet Potato A. Basipetal arrangement of flowers on
B. Carrot the main axis (peduncle)
C. Potato B. The limited growth of the main axis as
main axis terminates in a flower
D. none of above
C. Both a and b
367. What is the characteristic of a city that is D. Presence of sessile flower
influenced by political aspects?
373. In Tokyo, what kind of street pattern
A. Apply a nonlinear system
is implemented which were derived from
B. Implementing a decentralized system Buddhism values?
C. Apply a linear system A. Radial Street Pattern
D. None of above B. Fragmented Parallel Pattern
C. Grid Street Pattern
368. What is the clipped word of laboratory
D. Warped Parallel Pattern
A. labor
B. laborat 374. Affixes can be attached to a
A. Stem
C. ratory
B. Root
D. lab
C. Both the above
369. Mrs. Bledsoe predicts that 90% of her D. None of the above
students will get this question right. Pre-
dict means 375. Which word means an event that hap-
pens before another?
A. to say before it happens
A. Postpone
B. to say after it happens
B. Antecedent
C. to say while it happens
C. Simplify
D. to say it wrong
D. Dentist
370. galaxies have little dust or gas left 376. Which of the following words undergo
between stars the derivation?
A. Elliptical A. Close
B. Irregular B. Closes
C. Barred Spiral C. Closely
D. Spiral D. Closed

377. Morphemes are grouped into the follow- 383. The word “taken” is a word.
ing classes A. simple

A. Closed and open B. compound
B. Free morphemes C. complex
C. Bound morphemes
D. none of above
D. none of above
384. Never use running shoes which feel
378. What does the prefix ab-mean? after a long run.
A. with A. Discomfortable
B. away B. Incomfortable
C. after C. Uncomfortable
D. before D. Precomfortable
379. which of the following is an example of 385. Inflectional bound morphemes
compounding?
A. Can change the meaning of the entire
A. pepsi word
B. handbag B. Can not change the meaning of the
C. handsome word
D. info C. Can stand by themselves
380. These are not core discussion of mor- D. none of above
phology, except
386. A morpheme which is meaningful and
A. Phrase can stand on its own is morpheme.
B. Meaning A. bound
C. Word B. free
D. Clause C. cranberry
381. Which of these are not considered as a D. stem
problem in the integration of Urban Mor-
phology and Urban Design? 387. poly
A. Big Architecture Concept A. ten
B. Lack of Form and Space Quality B. eight
C. Two-Dimensional Planning C. many
D. Three-Dimensional Planning D. five
382. The process of word formation in “easy 388. This is a morpheme that is placed at the
=> ease” is beginning of a word
A. derivation A. a prefix
B. clipping B. a suffix
C. blending C. a root
D. back formation D. a morpheme

389. What is a prefix? C. charcoal

A. a letter or letters at the beginning of a D. water
word that changes its meaning
395. The root word ‘hydra’ means:
B. a letter or letters at the end of a word
A. water
that changes its meaning
B. horse
C. a base word
C. prefix
D. a noun
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D. monster
390. What is the meaning of homographs?
396. The bulk of the tooth structure is com-
A. Same sound, same spelling but differ- posed of
ent meanings
A. dentin
B. Different sound but same spelling
B. enamel
C. Different spelling, different meaning
C. cementum
but same sound
D. pulp
D. none of above
397. One example of borrowing is
391. Which of the following word contains
only 1 morpheme? A. Saxophone
B. Notebook
A. Protest
C. Jeans
B. Against
D. Nylon
C. Receive
D. Submit 398. What is the definition of the root sub
(submarine, subway, submerge)?
392. how many canines or “tearing teeth” do A. under/below
you have?
B. to write
A. 4
C. same or equal
B. 2
D. to break
C. 6
399. Identify the instances of word formation
D. 8
by using blending method.
393. What is a Morpheme? A. Brunch
A. It is a sentence B. Motel
B. Something related with sounds C. Smog
C. Minimal unit of a sentence D. All the above
D. Combine sentences 400. The word “Laser” is morphologically cat-
egorized as
394. If your house runs on hydro electric en-
ergy, what do you need to have electricity A. Compounding
in your house? B. Clipping
A. mud C. Coinage
B. air D. Acronym

401. catch, catch, catch 407. which is the subject of the sentence?my
A. skin mom hates eating salchiqueso

A. My mom
B. blood
B. mom
C. head
C. hates
D. hand
D. salchiqueso
402. How many word tokens occur in the fol-
lowing sentence?My friend and I walk to 408. A drupe develops in
class together, because our classes are in A. wheat
the same building and we dislike walking B. pea
alone.
C. tomato
A. 20
D. mango
B. 21
409. silver
C. 22
A. free morpheme
D. 23
B. bound morpheme
403. Word formation process includes C. inflectional morpheme
A. Combining process D. derivational morpheme
B. Shortening process
410. Choose the example principal 1 Same
C. Blending and reduplication processes form same meaning!
D. All of the above options A. go, went, gone
B. read, cut, sheep
404. rotation
C. buyer, worker, singer
A. free morpheme
D. here, hear
B. bound morpheme
C. inflectional morpheme 411. Choose the word that corresponds to the
following statement:They are always in-
D. derivational morpheme tentional formations that follow an unpro-
405. Seed coat is not thin, membranous in ductive pattern.
A. Creative neologisms
A. maize
B. Productive processes
B. coconut
C. Morphological phenomena
C. groundnut
D. None of them
D. gram
412. How many teeth are found in each arch
406. The suffix-able means in the deciduous dentition?
A. Responsible A. 5
B. To work hard B. 8
C. To be kind C. 10
D. To be capable or worthy of D. 20

413. If someone experiences a “misfortune, “ 419. Which of the following words contain
they would likely do what? zero allomorph?
A. Celebrate A. Cars
B. Cry B. Pies
C. Laugh C. Fish
D. Sing D. Bushes
420. A word part added to the beginning of a
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414. What meaningful word part can be added
to the front of a base word or root? word to change the meaning is a
A. prefix A. Root
B. Prefix
B. root
C. Suffix
C. base
D. Verb
D. suffix
421. Racemose inflorescence is identified by-
415. The root word ‘cycl’ means:
A. Acropetal arrangement of flowers on
A. possible peduncle
B. circle / round B. Presence of sessile flowers
C. monster C. Continuous growth of main axis
D. riding a bike D. a and c
416. What is the exposed coronal portion of 422. Use the meaning of the prefix to find the
the crown? meaning of the word indefinitely.
A. Clinical Root A. before you come to your definite an-
swer
B. Clinical Crown
B. too definitely
C. Cervical Third
C. not definitely
D. Cervical Line
D. under definitely
417. What plant has a waxy stem to keep wa-
ter inside 423. He drove fast but
A. Careful
A. Birch tree
B. Carefully
B. Cactus
C. Care
C. Palm tree
D. Caring
D. Daisy
424. Which of these can help prevent or get
418. Placentation in tomato and lemon is rid of bad breath.
A. parietal A. Drinking water
B. free central B. Flossing
C. marginal C. Mouthwash
D. axile D. All of the above

425. Fiona always behaves like a child. She is C. zoolog

still
D. zoological

A. Mature
B. Immature 431. What does the suffix-logy mean?
C. Maturity A. logic
D. Immaturity B. science
426. What part of the flower attracts an insect C. the study of OR science of
to pollinate? D. lazy
A. Petal
432. Oil reserve of groundnut is present in
B. Anther
A. embryo
C. Stigma
B. cotyledons
D. Style
C. endosperm
427. What is a correct example of suffixes
with <tion> D. underground tubers
A. tradition 433. How many words as types are in this sen-
B. conclusion tence, “ The students read the next chap-
C. ambition ters of the book to help them prepare for
the next test”.
D. none of above
A. 13
428. Shelli agreed to assist with the purging
B. 15
of the attic. She and her father worked
until it was C. 16
A. boxed D. 17
B. homeless
434. One or more morphemes that can stand
C. spotless alone in a language
D. full A. Morpheme
429. The king proclaimed a/an that all the B. Word
peasants would eat beans on Friday.
C. Bound morpheme
A. punishment
D. Phrase
B. edict
C. joke 435. What is the meaning of the follow-
ing?MID:Midway
D. promise
A. middle
430. What is the clipped word of (zoological
garden) B. gone
A. garden C. half
B. zoo D. none of above

436. Identify the word-formation pro- 442. Morphology can be defined as

cess:Kodak A. The study of sounds and patterns
A. acronym B. The study of connected sentences
B. blend C. The study of the structure and forma-
C. root creation tion of words
D. derivation D. The study of the meanings of words
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437. ism 443. The mode of arrangement of sepals or
A. to make petals in floral bud is called as
B. a quality or result A. inflorescence
C. full of B. phyllotaxy
D. concerned with C. aestivation

D. placentation
438. A morpheme that is added to a stem to
create a new word by changing its word 444. ante
class and word meaning A. before
A. Functional Morpheme B. after
B. Lexical Morpheme C. during
C. Derivational D. optional
D. none of above
445. Inner city neighborhoods face all of the
439. Perisperm differs from endosperm in following challenges except
A. being a haploid tissue A. alack of social and economic diversity
B. having no reserve food B. a culture of poverty
C. being a diploid tissue C. deteriorating housing
D. its formation by fusion of secondary D. increased crime
nucleus with several sperms
446. the prefix “micro” means
440. Which is the complex word in the list A. large
given below
B. small
A. Understanding
C. groups
B. Heartful
D. science
C. Played
D. All the above 447. among China rose, mustard, brinjal,
potato, guava, cucumber, onion and tulip,
441. The word “gym” is an example of how many plants have superior overy?
A. Blending A. Five
B. Conversion B. Six
C. Clipping C. Three
D. Backformation D. Four

448. Where does most of the photosynthetic 454. What is the best guide for an erupting
activity take place in a leaf? permanent tooth?
A. No guide is needed

A. Epidermis
B. Mesophyll B. Primary tooth
C. Stomata C. Space maintainer
D. Cuticle D. None of the above
455. Which type of word formation process is
449. Most of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy
applied for the word ‘black board’?
is thought to be
A. Clipping
A. The black hole at its center
B. Affixation
B. Dark matter
C. Compounding
C. Dust and gas
D. Conversion
D. Main-sequence stars and planets
456. They are the names of material human-
450. The prefix mis-means made creations or inventions. Those are
A. against
A. Toponyms
B. opposite
B. Phenonyms
C. bad, wrong
C. Ergonyms
D. not
D. Praxonyms
451. The word “Watt” is morphologically cat- 457. The underlined word in “The president
egorized as then was Mr. Bill Clinton” is a(n)
A. Borrowing A. adjectibe
B. Coinage B. adverb
C. Acronym C. noun
D. Backformation D. pronoun
452. The syntax governs the structure of 458. THE MID VEIN IN COMPOUND LEAF IS
CALLED AS
A. Sounds
A. RAYS
B. Meaning
B. RACHIS
C. Sentences
C. PETIOLE
D. Words
D. LAMINA
453. The central region of the Milky Way is 459. The mouth can be divided into four sec-
called tions called:
A. Bulge A. Arches
B. Halo B. Sextants
C. Disc C. Quadrants
D. Equator D. Dentition

460. The petiole is swollen & spongy in 466. “Arthur was named the king of all Eng-
A. All of the below land” That construction indicates
A. Nomination
B. Nepenthes
B. Naming
C. Trapa
C. Derivation
D. Clematis
D. Complexity
461. Which of the following words undergo in-
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flection? 467. How many morphemes composed with
the word “unattractive”?
A. Closure
A. 2
B. Unlucky
B. 3
C. Ensure
C. 4
D. Active D. none of above
462. The process of creating “evaluate” from 468. Which prefix means reduce or opposite
“evaluation” is an example of of
A. Clipping A. de
B. Backformation B. un
C. Blending C. pre
D. Coinage D. in
463. Brunch → breakfast and lunch 469. The prefix ‘super-’ means
A. Conversion A. in front of
B. Blending B. extreme
C. Synthetic compounds C. between or among
D. Backformation D. above or beyond
464. All are examples of blending except 470. How many morphemes in the
word:bicycling?
A. docudrama
A. 1
B. staycation
B. 2
C. frenemy C. 3
D. Facebook D. 4
465. The attachment of bound morphemes to 471. One tooth with two to divide into two
a stem or root is known as branches or parts.
A. minimal pair A. Clinical Root
B. phonological pairs B. Fossa
C. affixation C. Bifurcated
D. suffixes D. Bicanineate

472. Below are Simplex words except 477. What is a morpheme?

A. murmur A. The smallest unit of a particular lan-

guage
B. giraffe
B. The minimal pair of a chosen phrase
C. fraud
C. The smallest meaningful unit of a word
D. prewash
473. refers to the pattern of arrange- D. The minimal item of a linguistic unit
ment of leaves on the stem or the
branch.Venation Venation Inflorescence 478. Words and their formation are studied in
Inflorescence Phyllotaxy Phyllotaxy Taxon-
omy Taxonomy A. Phonetics
A. Venation B. Morphology
B. Inflorescence C. Semantics
C. Phyllotaxy D. Pragmatics
D. Taxonomy 479. Free-central placentation is found in

A. Dianthus
474. Given below is a set of four pair of modi-
fication with examples. Identify the incor- B. Argemone
rect pairing.a) Colocasia-modified stemb) C. Brassica
Citrus thorn-modified leafc) Phylloclade of
D. Citrus
Opuntia-modified stemd) Turnip-modified
root 480. Placentation in which ovules develop on
A. a the inner wall of the ovary or in peripheral
part, is
B. b
A. Basal
C. c
B. Axile
D. d
C. Parietal
475. NASA D. Free central
A. Conversion 481. how many teeth do adults have?
B. Blending A. 32
C. Acronyms B. 28
D. back formation C. 30
476. remove the silent “e” at the end of a D. 26

word when you 482. If you have a phonograph, you proabably
A. never-always leave it have a collections of
B. when you need to double the conso- A. DVDs
nant B. CDs
C. when you add any suffix C. records
D. add a suffix that starts with a vowel D. 8 track tapes

483. Guard cells control the opening and clos- C. Preventable-prevention

ing of the , which is responsible for al-
D. Preventable-prevent
lowing the plant to “breathe”.
A. Stomata 489. He senses an increasing feeling of
B. Cuticle democracy in the country. The underlined
word is derived from another language.
C. Mesophyll The process is called
D. Trichomes
A. Compounding
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484. MODIFIED STEM FOUND IN POTATO IS B. Clipping
CALLED AS
C. Blending
A. RHIZOME
D. Borrowing
B. TUBER
C. BULB 490. The root script means
D. CORM A. to build
485. A typical leaf consists of three main B. to carry
parts C. to write
A. petiole, leaf margin and lamina D. cause to be
B. leaf base, petiole and lamina
C. leaf base, leaf apex and lamina 491. amuse → amusement
D. leaf apex, petiole and lamina A. Level-changing lexeme formation

B. Category-changing lexeme formation
486. Which teeth play an important role in
speech? C. Meaning-changing lexeme formation
A. molars D. category and meaning-changing lex-
B. cuspids eme formation
C. incisors 492. An example of edible underground stem
D. premolars is
487. English speakers recognize that the A. carrot

words dog and dogs are closely related. B. groundnut
What does the letter “s” means?
C. sweet potata
A. Plurality morpheme “-s”.
D. potato
B. That means apostrophe.
C. Doesn’t mean anything at all. 493. We looked through my grandmother’s
old photo albums
D. The morpheme of the letter “g”.
A. -ed
488. While many accidents are , we do
nothing to them. B. -s
A. Prevention-preventable C. -’s
B. Preventing-prevent D. all of them

494. What function does the flattened stem in C. Tiger editor

Opuntia serve?Photosynthesis Photosyn-
D. Bigger tiger
thesis Support Support Protection Protec-

tion Perenation Perenation
500. Write the number of the morphemes in
A. Support Support this word.keep
B. Protection Protection A. ONE
C. Perenation Perenation B. TWO
D. photosynthesis C. THREE
495. Allomorphs are the of a morpheme. D. none of above
A. roots
501. I felt very The lesson was
B. variant form
A. Boring-boredom
C. stem
B. Bored-boring
D. determiner
C. Boredom-boring
496. Morphology is
D. Boring-bored
A. A branch of Linguistics
B. The study of words structures 502. Root hairs usually develop in which re-
C. All of the above gion of a typical tap root?
D. none of above A. Region of Maturation

B. Region of Meristematic activity
497. galaxies are classified according to
the size of the bulge and the tightness and C. Region of Elongation
appearance of the arm
D. Root cap
A. Irregular
B. Dwarf 503. What is the region of rapid cell division
in plants?
C. Elliptical
A. Guard
D. Spiral
B. Stomata
498. What does a coauthor do?
C. Xylem
A. writes a biography about someone
else D. Meristem
B. writes with another author 504. To which of these roots should the pre-
C. writes a biography about themselves fix de-be added to make the word make
sense?
D. writes only fiction stories
A. -hydrate
499. Which of the following words have the
same morphological structure? B. -draw
A. Editor singer C. -olish
B. Singer bigger D. -in

505. ’ MPSC’ is an instance of 511. What does the suffix-ure mean?

A. Acronymy A. the study of
B. Reduplication B. the grossness of
C. Prefixation C. this or that

D. Shows actions or results
D. Back formation
512. Where does the anatomical tooth and
506. Stem tendrils are not seen in
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root meet?
A. pumpkin A. Cervical Third
B. watermelon B. Cervical Line
C. grapevines C. Clinical Crown
D. Bougainvillea D. Clinical Root
507. Producer-director 513. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?

A. Spiral
A. Inattentive
B. Barred Spiral
B. Subordinative compounds
C. Irregular
C. Synthetic compounds
D. Elliptical
D. Coordinative compounds
514. What is the root for the word ‘vivisec-
508. What’s another word for Lexicon? tion’?
A. phonology A. ion
B. phonetics B. viv
C. sect
C. mental dictionary
D. section
D. morphology
515. Which word best fits this definition?To
509. THE TYPE OF MODIFIED ROOTS FOUND cast away, leave, or desert, as property
IN Ficus bengalensis IS CALLED AS or a child.
A. STILT ROOTS A. abandon
B. PROP ROOTS B. without
C. FUSIFORM ROOTS C. decrease
D. NAPIFORM ROOTS D. absent
516. The development of different cells is

510. Surface toward the midline
known as
A. lingual A. histodifferentiation
B. Labial B. cytodifferentiation
C. Distal C. morphodifferentiation
D. Mesial D. deposition

517. How was Hubble able to determine the C. a fiftieth anniversary

distances of nearby galaxies? D. a fifth anniversary

A. by using spectroscopy
523. Which group of prefixes have the same
B. by observing Cepheid variables in meaning?
them
A. pre-, fore-, with-
C. by measuring the typical angular sepa-
rations of stars in them B. dis-, un-, ab-
D. by measuring trigonometric parallaxes C. pre-, dis-, ill-

D. de-, ab-, with-
518. The suffix ness means
A. someone who 524. Mountain climbing is a kind of sport.
B. condition or state of A. Danger
C. opposite or wrong B. Endanger
D. someone will C. Dangerous

D. Dangerously
519. Which permanent teeth are not succeda-
neous? 525. A meaningful word part that can change
A. centrals the part of speech or make a word plural.
B. cuspids A. prefix
C. premolars B. suffix
D. molars C. predicate
D. affix
520. People should have a smoke detector in
their houses as a If a fire starts it 526. Which of the following is a description of
could save your life by warning you before a cancer cell?
it is too late! A. regular, ellipsoid shape
A. precaution B. few connections with other cells
B. preview C. grow as uniform layer
C. pretest D. all the above
D. prepay
527. One example of clipping is
521. The tooth surface that is on the cheek A. Info
side of the posterior teeth is
B. Emoticon
A. buccal
C. Sandwich
B. lingual
D. Bookstore
C. mesial
D. distal 528. The process of forming a new word by
dropping one or more syllables from a
522. The word centennial means polysyllabic word is called
A. a tenth anniversary A. Clipping
B. a hundredth anniversary B. Blending

C. Acronym 535. Prepositional and relational affixes

D. Backformation A. Inattentive
529. Struct is an example of B. Runner
A. root C. Overcoat
B. suffix D. Rewash
C. prefix 536. What is a suffix?
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D. noun A. a letter or letters at the beginning of a
word that changes its meaning
530. fused carpels are called
A. syncarpous B. a letter or letters at the end of a word
that changes its meaning
B. polycarpous
C. an adjective
C. apocarpous
D. a verb
D. acarpous
537. Pneumatophores help the plant in
531. The verb “build” has syntactic
words. A. Collects more minerals from the soil
A. 2 B. getting oxygen from air
B. 3 C. holding the plant tightly to the soil
C. 4 D. give mechanical support to the plant
D. 5 538. Space between two teeth, normally in
reference to maxillary centrals
532. How many different lexemes are there
in the following list?man, men, girls, girl, A. Fossa
mouse B. Mamelons
A. 2 C. Lobes
B. 3 D. Distema
C. 4
539. Identify the word-formation pro-
D. none of above cess:hamburger < Hamburg (Germany)
533. Parallel venation occurs in A. blend
A. Banana B. acronym
B. Peepal C. proper name
C. Hibiscus D. category extension
D. Mango
540. The hanging structures that support a
534. The word part “dis” is a banyan tree are its
A. root A. stilt roots
B. prefix B. tap roots
C. suffix C. prop roots
D. verb D. pneumatophores

541. The word misfortune has 547. When we talk about morphology which
A. a prefix one of the 4 steps are we working on?

B. a compound word A. Determine the impotance
C. a suffix B. Use context clues

D. one syllable C. Use word parts
D. Look it up or ask someone
542. What do the words inspect, perspective,
spectacles, spectator have in common? 548. post-
A. a root A. too much
B. a prefix B. after
C. a suffix C. under, below
D. a syllable D. above, beyond
543. Languages employ these processes to 549. Bonus Part 2:Which of the following
form new words: would be considered a Exclave?
A. Compounding A. Lesotho
B. Reduplication B. South Africa
C. Alternations
C. Hawaii
D. All of the above
D. Alaska
544. The prefix and suffix morphemes have
550. In multirooted teeth, the area of bone be-
traditionally been called morphemes.
tween the roots is the
A. Free
A. alveolar crest
B. Grammatical
B. alveolus
C. Functional
C. interradicular septum
D. Bound
D. interdental septum
cess:examination → exam 551. Identify if this word has a derivational or
inflectional affixUSEFUL
A. derivation
A. BOTH
B. acronym
B. I
C. root creation
C. D
D. clipped form
D. none of above
546. In Australian acacia plant
552. All are examples of clipping except
A. leaves are short lived, petioles be-
come leaf like A. lab
B. leaves become fleshy B. memo
C. leaves are modified into spines C. soy
D. leaf tips are modified into tendrils D. flu

553. A prefix is 559. bi

A. a morpheme that goes at the end A. two
B. a morpheme that goes at the begin- B. one
ning
C. four
C. a unit of sound
D. ten
560. Which of the following can lead to uncon-
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554. Arrangement of leaves on stem or its trolled cell growth (cancer)?
branches is called-
A. Proto-oncogene
A. Phyllotaxy
B. Oncogene
B. Venation
C. Tumor suppressor gene
C. Vernation
D. Heterophylly D. DNA repair system
555. What is the clipped word of taxicab 561. The term ‘Polyadelphous’ is related to
A. cab A. Gynoecium
B. taxi B. androecium
C. taxic C. corolla
D. taxica D. calyx
556. According to their meaning, morphemes 562. What is the combination of morphemes
consist of: in the word ‘extraordinary’?
A. bases & affixes A. Bound, Bound
B. derivational & inflectional B. Free, bound
C. free & bound morphemes C. Free, Free
D. root & stem D. none of above
557. According to the weather predict , it 563. What root means birth, origin, race?
is going to be very hot tomorrow.
A. numer
A. -ing
B. mem
B. -ory
C. -ion C. gen
D. -ism D. claim
558. How many works you have completed? 564. the prefix “ contra” means
A. All A. against
B. Some are left B. with, along side
C. Nothing C. around
D. D. two or twice

565. Roots developing from plant parts other 571. The most important part of a word, gives
than radicle are- basic meaning

A. Epiphyllous A. prefix
B. Epicaulous B. suffix
C. Adventitious C. root word
D. Fibrous D. predicate
566. Prefix meaning ‘with’ 572. What does the word ‘dysgraphia’ mean?
A. dis- A. difficulty in learning maths
B. and- B. difficulty in motor coordination
C. co- C. difficulty in reading and spelling
D. anti- D. difficulty in writing coherently
567. Tooth morphology is the study of 573. Identify if this word has a derivational,
A. Structure of the jaw inflectional or both affixcarrots
B. Structure and form of gums A. D
C. Structure of the mouth B. I
D. Structure and form of teeth C. both
568. What does the prefix “geo” mean? D. none of above

A. earth 574. Word parts with meanings are called
B. sky A. suffixes
C. sun B. prefixes
D. around C. morphemes
569. The Aims of Morphology are D. roots
A. Identification of morphemes 575. What type of word is best classified us-
B. Study of meaning ing semantic features?
C. Identification and study meaning of A. Determiner
morphemes B. Noun
D. Studies and identifies morphemes and
C. Preposition
assign meaning to them
D. Verb
570. Many people try to resist reforms in the
society. 576. Which suffix denotes how an action is?
A. Fight A. -ed
B. Accept B. -s
C. Welcome C. -ing
D. Repel D. -ly

577. What does intravenous injection refer 583. Obstruction

to? A. A large building
A. applied within layers of the skin
B. Something in the way of things being
B. taking place within the veins created or built
C. administered within the nasal struc- C. Something that can be easily moved
ture
D. To teach or inform
D. occurring by entering the eyeball
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584. In the word ‘reopen’, the segment ‘re-’
578. What does the root “multi” mean? is a
A. thrown A. Bound morpheme
B. two
B. Free morpheme
C. life
C. Both the above
D. many
579. A meaningful word part that can come be-
fore or after a root word. 585. Buy and Bought are perfect examples
of:
A. prefix
A. Words in pass
B. suffix
B. Inflectional morphemes
C. predicate
C. Past participle
D. affix
D. derivational affixes
580. Which suffixes denote ‘an action or the
result of’? 586. The first permanent teeth to erupt are
A. -ment and-tion/-sion the
B. -ic and-ive A. mandibular centrals
C. -ness and-ous B. mandibular first molars
D. -ent and-ant C. maxillary cuspids
581. Parts of speech that allow new members D. maxillary centrals

are said to be 587. The prefix anti-means
A. open class
A. against
B. closed class
B. opposite
C. Affixes
C. bad, ill
D. Allomorphs
D. above, beyond
582. The first set of primary teeth is also re-
ferred to as teeth. 588. The Synthetic Languages are
A. deciduous A. Agglutinating
B. dentition B. Fusional
C. embrasure C. Polysynthetic
D. succedaneous D. All of the above

589. In a pre-assessment, teachers do NOT 594. Look at these words:PUT-PUT

expect you to know every question be- A. ADDITIVE
cause “pre” means what?

B. ZERO
A. final
C. SUPPLATIVE
B. before
D. none of above
C. first
595. Choose the example principal 2 different
D. only form but same meaning!
590. Identify the word-formation process:(a) A. write, wrote, written
I have an ant bite on my arm;(b) It’s im- B. a, an
portant to arm yourself with a solid edu-
cation. C. s, es, ies
D. all answers are correct
A. blend
B. acronym 596. Which of the following latin roots means
to throw?
C. proper name
A. jud
D. category extension
B. aud
591. Using the example of the word “scientist, C. ject
“ what does the suffix “ist” mean?
D. mit
A. someone who does not like something
597. The rounded enamel extensions on the
incisal ridge of newly erupted central and
B. someone who practices, is an expert lateral incisors are called:
in or is concerned about
A. Cingulum
C. someone who is happy with it
B. Mamelons
D. none of above
C. Fossa
592. Bound morphemes D. Marginal ridge
A. make no sense 598. One example of word blending is
B. describe a free morpheme A. Plane
C. only make sense when they are at- B. Atlas
tached to a free morpheme
C. Workaholic
D. are always attached to a free mor-
D. Hotdog
pheme
599. I want to visit all places in Indone-
593. What does the prefix staphylo-refer to sia.
A. A chain A. Interest
B. A pair B. Interesting
C. A clump or cluster C. Interested
D. A group of four D. Interestingly

600. THE TYPE OF PLACENTATION FOUND IN C. Portuguiese colonials

LEMON IS D. Spanish colonials
A. AXILE
606. What are Suffixes?
B. PARIETAL
A. End root in a word
C. FREE CENTRAL
B. Able
D. MARGINAL
C. Middle word in a word
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601. Petiole when becomes green, flat and D. none of above
tend to function as leaf, is called as
A. Phylloclade 607. What prefix does NOT mean together
B. Cladode A. co (Cooperate)
C. Cladophyll B. com (Community)
D. Phyllode C. tele (telephone)

D. sym (symphony)
602. One of the following is not a free mor-
pheme 608. Also known as null morphemes, are a
A. Lexical morpheme type of morpheme that has no visible
changes, usually, but changes meaning in
B. Inflectional morpheme some way. That statement is principe..
C. Functional morpheme A. Principe 1
D. none of above B. Principe 4
603. Tele is a C. Principe 5
A. verb D. Principe 6
B. suffix 609. The root-struct means
C. root A. To carry
D. prefix B. Under
604. Select the correct example of Derivative C. To build
Morphology. D. To move
A. Completely incomprehensible, percep-
tible. 610. is a meaningful building-block of lan-
guage.
B. Understand, incomprehensible, under-
stand. A. Moprhology
C. Honest, dishonesty, honestly B. Morpheme
D. none of above C. Phoneme

D. Word
605. Bengkulu was placed along the coast as
a city focusing on shipping and trade by 611. The two structures that limit transpira-
tion are known as
A. Dutch colonials A. Guard cells and xylem
B. British colonials B. Stomata and guard cells

C. xylem and phloem C. give

D. stomata and phloem D. save, keep, protect

612. What does ‘struct’ mean? 618. Storm is:
A. to see A. Adjective
B. to take B. Adverb
C. to build C. Noun
D. to bend D. Verb
613. The French word ‘mansion’ entered the
619. MODIFIED ROOTS IN Rhizophora
English lexicon as a result of which pro-
WHICH HELP IN RESPIRATION ARE
cess?
CALLED AS
A. compounding
A. CHROMATOPHORES
B. borrowing
B. PNEUMATOPHORES
C. acronym
C. ANTHERIDIOPHORES
D. none of above
D. NONE OF THESE ABOVE
614. Vexillum is found in
620. The syntactic categories are..
A. Crucferae
A. Morpheme, phoneme and lexeme
B. Rosaceae
B. Subject, verb and object
C. Solanaceae
C. Syntax, grammar and relationship
D. Papilionaceae
D. Phonetic, phonology and syntax
615. Which type of galaxy contains the least
amount of interstellar material? 621. which is not an example of “allo-
A. Irregular morph”?
B. Barred Spiral A. Some derivational morphemes in En-

glish (ment, ly, -able)
C. Spiral
B. The plural morpheme in English (-s, -
D. Elliptical es, en)
616. What does the prefix with-mean? C. The negative morphemes in English
A. away (un-, im-, il-, in-)
B. together D. All of the answers

C. before 622. “She was very upset at him”. In this sen-
D. opposite tence, the word “very” is a(n)
A. Adjective
617. We try to conserve, recycle paper. What
does serve mean? B. Adverb
A. use C. Determiner
B. get D. Conjunction

623. Labyrinth medina, mohallas, and chowks 629. Why is Morphology Helpful?
are the socio-cultural affected character- A. It helps you see the word better
istics of
B. It helps you find the roots in the word
A. Baghdad
C. It helps you make money
B. Ankara
D. it helps you find the meaning of the
C. New Delhi word
D. Old Delhi
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630. The final stage in the life cycle of a tooth
624. the prefix “ex” means is
A. beyond, or more A. eruption
B. inside B. calcification
C. badly C. attrition
D. out D. resorption
625. Semi-means 631. Personal affixes
A. first A. Runner
B. half B. Diner
C. Earlier
C. one quarter
D. Printer
D. in the front
632. A cycle with only one wheel is called a
626. To turn the adjective ‘playful’ to a noun
A. bicycle
A. Add the prefix “un” B. unicycle
B. Add the prefix “dis” C. tricycle
C. Add the suffix “ness” D. hybrid bike
D. Add the suffix “ly” 633. This is the smallest meaningful unit in
language.
627. Which of the following DOES NOT have
an affix? A. A prefix
A. revisit B. A suffix
C. A root
B. identifier
D. A morpheme
C. ignition
D. empire 634. The type of flower where the gynoecium
occupies the highest position while the
628. The word ‘unlawfully’ has affixes. other parts are situated below it.
A. 1 A. Hypogynous
B. 2 B. perigynous
C. 3 C. epigynous
D. 4 D. monogynous

635. Root word meaning ‘to do’ 641. Select the correct answer:The set of
A. act bases to which a rule could apply in prin-
ciple is called.

B. bio
A. Grammaticalization
C. sol
B. Domain
D. cred
C. Inflection
636. What is the root from “unbelieveable”? D. None of them
A. Believe 642. Identify the word-formation pro-
B. Unbelieive cess:enjoy (v) + able (suffix) = enjoyable
C. Unbelieveable (adj)
A. acronym
D. Believeable
B. blend
637. Which part of the word “irregularly” is
C. root creation
the prefix?
D. derivation
A. ir
B. regular 643. In epiphyllous, stamens are attached to
the
C. ly
A. Perianth
D. none of above
B. Sepal
638. With Syntax C. Petal
A. The author makes the reading complex D. none of above
644. What promoted urbanization more than
B. The author alters the tone of a sen- any other event?
tence
A. highways
C. The author controls the pacing of the
B. industrial revolution
text
C. commericalization
D. none of above
D. minimum wage
639. Battleground is a word that is formed by
645. the prefix “photo” means
A. dark
A. Blending
B. light
B. Borrowing
C. camers
C. Clipping
D. pictures
D. Compounding
646. The development of different tissues is
640. Before a noun you have to use known as
A. A verb A. histodifferentiation
B. A predicate B. cytodifferentiation
C. An article C. morphodifferentiation
D. A morpheme D. calcification

647. What does ‘flect’ or ‘flex’ mean? 653. The prefix ‘bene’ means:
A. to hear A. bad
B. to bend
B. good
C. to send
C. possible
D. to tear
D. land
cess:breakfast + lunch = brunch
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654. galaxies are sub-classified according
A. blend the degree of how oblong they are due to
B. acronym how the orbits are oriented and the distri-
bution of the star velocities.
C. proper name
A. Irregular
D. category extension
B. Barred Spiral
649. What is the definition of the morpheme
‘cogn’? C. Spiral
A. to know D. Elliptical
B. to learn and know
655. The relationship between the maxillary
C. mind
and mandibular teeth when the jaws are
D. God in a fully closed position is:
650. Fruit of groundnut is A. Closure
A. legume B. Occlusion
B. carpopsis
C. Mastication
C. berry
D. Functional Occlusion
D. nut
651. Pope Francis gave a (blank) speech last 656. Basing on the function, morpheme can
year be classified as
A. instruct A. bases & affixes
B. honorable B. derivational & inflectional
C. capable
C. free & bound morphemes
D. fable
D. root & stem
652. What does the whole word ‘retrocogni-
tion’ mean? 657. In many countries it is legal to keep
A. to buy vintage clothing at a thrift store a gun in your house.
A. un-
B. to know about vintage clothing
B. bi-
C. to strangely know about past events
that you didn’t experience C. il-
D. to know about the past D. post-

658. a word part with meaning located at the 664. The prefix com-means
end of a word A. below, under

A. prefix B. more than, too much
B. suffix
C. together, with
C. root
D. over, high, big
D. morpheme
665. My dog had quadruplets last night. How
659. Another name for the primitive mouth many puppies were in the litter?
that appears between the maxillary and
A. 1
mandibular processes is the
B. 2
A. shallow dression
B. brachial arches C. 3
C. stomodeum D. 4
D. There is no such thing as a primitive 666. Which of the following words does NOT
mouth. contain an inflectional suffix?
660. EPIPHYLLOUS CONDITION IS FOUND IN A. Taken
A. SOLANACEAE B. Quickly
B. FABACEAE C. Pieces
C. LILIACEAE D. John’s
D. MALVACEAE 667. LEAF PHYLLOTAXY FOUND IN Calotropis
IS
661. mid-
A. ALTERNATE
A. middle
B. end B. OPPOSITE
C. beginning C. WHORLED
D. after D. NONE OF THESE
662. The medical name for bad breath is: 668. Which of the following is not a compound
word?
A. halitosis
A. notebook
B. ammonia
B. wifi
C. gingivitis
C. classroom
D. none of above
D. carjack
663. The three main parts of a spiral galaxy
include all of the following, EXCEPT 669. Where can you find the suffix of a word?
A. The central bulge A. At the beginning
B. The halo B. In the middle
C. The arms C. At the end
D. The disk D. none of above

670. Roots perform all of the following func- 676. NASA means
tions EXCEPT A. National Airports and Space Adminis-
A. Carrying out the light reactions of pho- tration
tosynthesis B. Naval Airways and Space Association
B. Anchoring the plant in the soil C. National Aeronautics and Space Asso-
C. Absorbing water and nutrients from ciation
the soil D. National Aliens and Strangers Admin-
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D. Storing water and minerals istration
671. The cusp of Carabelli is found on the: 677. Tricarpellary, syncarpous gynoecium is
A. premolars. found in flowers of
B. central incisors. A. Solanaceae

B. Fabaceae
C. maxillary first molars.
C. Poaceae
D. maxillary second molars.
D. Liliaceae
672. The antonym of COMMISSIONED
678. WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWINGS IS
A. Started
NOT ALBUMINOUS
B. Closed
A. MAIZE
C. Finished
B. WHEAT
D. Terminated
C. BARLEY
673. Geocarpic fruit is D. PEA
A. potato
679. If a student throws a spitball at the
B. groundnut teacher, they would be called what?
C. onion A. Unknown
D. garlic B. Unwritten
674. Food flows down from the leaves of a C. Unwise
plant through the D. Under arrest
A. Tracheid
680. How many morphemes are there in in-
B. Phloem spector?
C. Fibre A. 1
D. Xylem B. 2
675. Manuscript, prescribe, and scribble have C. 3
the same D. 4
A. root 681. Students find it difficult to new vocab-
B. prefix ulary items.
C. amount of syllables A. Memory
D. amount of letters B. Memorable

C. Memorably 688. over-

D. Memorize A. after

682. surface away from the midline B. under, below
A. Labial C. above and beyond
B. Distal D. too much
C. Lingual 689. FBI
D. Mesial
A. Initialisms
683. What does morphology do? B. Blending
A. It takes care of morphemes. C. Acronyms
B. It takes care of phonemes. D. back formation
C. Research about syntax.
690. “Prof” is the clipped word of
D. It isn’t in the text.
A. professor
684. This root word means study or “the study
B. professional
of”
C. professionalism
A. -sci-
B. -ology- D. profess
C. -mem- 691. When the ovules develop on the inner

D. -graph- wall of the ovary or on the peripheral part
the placentation is
685. Which of the following plants has a tap
A. Axile
root system?
B. Marginal
A. Maize
C. Parietal
B. Wheat
C. Rose D. Basal
D. Sugarcane 692. Which one is part of the urban Pre-

industrial morphology
686. Derivational affixes form new words.
A. Urban Infrastructure
A. True
B. Defense Factor
B. False
C. Urban Mobility
C. May be
D. None of the above D. Economic factor
687. The prefix ‘hyper’ means: 693. Information → info

A. under A. Initialisms
B. not enough / small B. Blending
C. over / too much C. Clipping
D. above D. Backformation

694. Which of the following is the cor- B. 2

rect division of the English word “re-
C. 3
paired”( meaning mended, fixed) into mor-
phemes? D. 4
A. Repair-ed
700. The outermost layer of a stem is called
B. Repaired a(an)
C. Re-paired A. Cortex
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D. Re-pair-ed B. Adaptation
695. What is the definition of the morpheme C. Cambium
‘theo’?
D. Epidermis
A. to know
B. to learn and know 701. The primary dentition begins to erupt
around what age
C. mind
D. God A. 1 year
B. 6 months
696. The criteria we use for determining part
of speech aren’t based on the meanings C. 5 months
of the word, but on its D. 7 months
A. Placement
702. Where can you find the prefix of some
B. Distribution
words?
C. Word class
A. At the beginning
D. Sentence structure
B. In the middle
697. One example of word compounding is
C. At the end
A. Entrepreneurship D. none of above
B. Anonymous 703. Words that consist of only one mor-

C. Real estate pheme can be termed
D. Sitcom A. regular words
698. The syntax of the language contains B. simplex words

? C. complex words
A. The grammar D. compound words
B. The use
704. What does the root “meter” mean?
C. The rules
D. The larynx A. measure
B. money
699. The word “unreliable” has bound
morphemes. C. time
A. 1 D. around

705. An example of internal stability is: 711. Which prefix would you want to add to
A. Complexity-complexion the blank to make it make sense in the con-
text of the sentence.Mixing hot peppers

B. Building-built and chocolate is an usual combination,
C. carefully-carefull-care but they pair nicely together.
D. water-wa A. ill-
B. un-
706. In english language inflectional mor-
phemes can be C. pre-
D. dis-
A. Prefixes, suffixes, infixes
B. Prefixes and Suffixes 712. Slect the bound morpheme(s) in thegiven
words.kingdom
C. Suffixes only
A. king-
D. Infixes only
B. -dom
707. -let as in booklet C. -gdom
A. Initialisms D. none of above
B. Blending 713. Which teeth are often called the “corner-
C. Clipping stone of the mouth”?
D. Diminutives A. centrals
B. first molars
cess:Philippine Statistics Authority → C. cuspids
PSA D. laterals
A. derivation 714. Identify the number of the morphemes in
B. acronym this word.rainy
C. root creation A. 2
D. clipped form B. 1
C. 0
709. Which choice does not belong?
D. 3
A. prideful
715. re-& pre-
B. spiteful
A. infixes
C. kindness
B. Prefixes
D. helpful
C. Affixes
710. The root word ‘min’ means: D. Bound affixes
A. miniature
716. Lexical ambiguity refers to .
B. big
A. Words that have the same meaning
C. over B. A word that has more than one mean-
D. small ing

C. Words that have different meaning 722. Prefix and suffix are the two types of
D. none of above A. Root
B. Stem
717. An infix is a
C. Affix
A. morpheme annexed before a stem
D. All of the above
B. morpheme occurring in the middle of a
word 723. The adult dentition has on average how
many permanent teeth?
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C. morpheme occurring in the middle of a
A. 5
stem
B. 16
D. morpheme occurring in the middle of a
base C. 32
D. 20
718. The underlined part in “a reserved room”
is a(n): 724. “He was going to call but he forgot.” In
this sentence, the word “to” is a(n)
A. derivational suffix
A. Verb
B. inflectional suffix
B. Conjunction
C. derivational infix
C. Auxiliary
D. none of them D. Preposition
719. What does the root “graph” mean? 725. How many inflectional morphemes in en-
A. write glish?
A. 6
B. speak
B. 7
C. sing
C. 8
D. hear
D. none of above
720. A leaf blade with a apex that has straight 726. Which word best fits this definition?Not
sides and taper to a point is considered conscious; without awareness, sensation,
or cognition
A. Acute A. illegal
B. Obtuse B. uneasy
C. Rounded C. discomfort
D. Cuneate D. unconscious
727. MACHU PICCHU PERU is that is in-
721. What does “biannual” mean?
fluced by topographic aspects.
A. fear of sleep A. City of natural defense
B. outside the Earth’s atmophere B. City of ridge
C. study of the Earth C. Hilltop city
D. occurring twice a year D. Hillside city

728. What does aqua-mean? 733. What is the function of the flower?
A. water A. To absorb water and nutrients

B. star B. To take in sunlight and make food
C. To hold the plant upright
C. soul or life
D. To attract pollinators and help the
D. good or well plant reproduce
729. The root is covered at the apex by a 734. Where can you find the “root” of the
thimble-like structure called the root word?
hair root hair region of maturation re- A. At the beginning
gion of maturation pneumatophore pneu-
B. In the middle
matophore
C. At the end
A. root cap
D. none of above
B. root hair
735. Cancer creates abnormal cells by dis-
C. region of maturation rupting
D. pneumatophore A. the cell cycle
B. red blood cell formation
730. The period between 6 and 12 years of
age when adult and child teeth are erupt- C. DNA replication
ing. D. ATP synthesis
A. Primary dentition 736. What is a word sum?
B. Permanent Dentition A. the study of word parts
C. Mixed dentition B. building the prefixes, suffixes and
word base to make new words
D. Deciduous period
C. the sum of the prefix and suffix
731. The apex is located at the of the leaf D. context clues
blade whereas the base is located at the
737. I saw your lookbook for this autumn; ev-
erything looks beautiful!Identify the word
A. top, bottom formation process of the colored word in
B. bottom, top the sentence
C. center, bottom A. Clipping

B. Borrowing
D. center, top
C. Acronym
732. The clinical crown is defined as the por- D. Compounding
tion of the tooth
738. Plant absorbs water through the
A. covered with enamel
A. stem
B. covered with cementum B. roots
C. visible in the mouth C. leaves
D. visible on a radiograph D. all of the above

739. Select the number of the morphemes in 745. inter

this word.replay A. sideways
A. ONE B. parallel
B. TWO
C. outside
C. THREE
D. between
D. ZERO
746. What do val, rupt, tract, and bio all have
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740. Root hairs develop from- in common?
A. Region of maturation A. they are all roots
B. Zone of elongation B. they are all one syllables
C. Meristematic region C. they are all suffixes
D. Region of mature cells D. they are all prefixes
741. The human mouth is divided into two sec- 747. Which characteristic is true only about
tions, or arches, called the: derivational affixes?
A. quadrants. A. Concreteness
B. maxillary arch. B. Infrequency
C. mandibular arch.
C. Abstractness
D. b and c
D. Non-productivity
742. SCUBA stands for?
748. The type of placentation in which vary is
A. Self-Contained Underwater Breathing syncarpous, unilocular and ovules on su-
Apparatus tures is called
B. Safety Cutting Umbrella Bacon Art A. apical placentation
C. See Cats Under Bikes Allways B. parietal placentation
D. Special Climate Upside Boxes After- C. marginal placentation
shave
D. superficial placentation
743. Auto is an example of a
749. sub-
A. syllable
A. before
B. root
B. under, below
C. prefix
C. in the front
D. suffix
D. too much
744. Plants make food using and in the
presence of sunlight. 750. What is the function of a molar?
A. water, oxygen A. Cut and shear
B. water, carbon dioxide B. Grip and tear
C. minerals, oxygen C. Tear and crush
D. minerals, carbon dioxide D. Chew, crush, and grind

751. Identify if this word has a derivational, 757. Functional parts of speech provide the
inflectional or both affixREADING grammatical information. Functional
items are the “glue” that holds a sentence

A. BOTH
together. Below are functional parts of
B. I speech EXCEPT
C. D A. Determiners
D. none of above B. Prepositions
752. A mega-city is defined as C. Negation
A. a city with more than 10 million people D. Adverbs
758. How many morphemes in the
B. a city with more than 20 million people word:caller?
A. 1
C. a city that has global influence
B. 2
D. a city that receives more migrants than
C. 3
loses emmigrants
D. 4
753. The suffix-ish meansex. greenish, self-
ish 759. Identify the SUFFIX
A. in a certain way A. Misfortune
B. full of B. Stronger
C. Uncontable
C. like
D. Imposible
D. none of above
760. What are words?
754. This is the basic part of a word to which
a prefix or a suffix is added to is A. Something that is arbitrary
A. a prefix B. pairing of sound and meaning
B. a suffix C. All of the above
C. a root D. none of above
D. a morpheme 761. What is a Bound Morpheme?
A. It is a word element that cannot stand
755. the suffix “est” means
alone
A. color of
B. It is a word element that can stand
B. one who alone
C. most C. It is a word
D. place of D. I don’t know
756. One example of word coinage is 762. What does the prefix dis-mean?
A. Blackboard A. between, among
B. Aspirin B. not, opposite
C. Laser C. after
D. Exam D. in front of

763. It was a (blank) moment when we were 769. What does the prefix un-mean?
learning the new Fortnite dance. A. after
A. Laughable B. above, beyond
B. Able C. in front of
C. Honorable
D. not, opposite
D. Portable
770. Which molecules act as gatekeepers for
764. Which type of tooth is not in the primary
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each checkpoint of the cell cycle?
dentition but found only in the permanent
A. p53 gene
dentition?
B. cyclins and cycline-dependent kinases
A. Premolar
B. Molar
C. thyroid hormones
C. Canine
D. none of above
D. Incisor
771. ant
765. The word “resale” would be used in con-
nection with what type of product? A. reliable
A. A new gaming system B. system
B. A restaurant menu item C. full of
C. A used car D. a person who
D. A homemade blanket 772. Derivational morpheme example could
be:
766. The teacher exclaimed, “Testing is over.”
Claim means? A. Car-cars
A. declare B. read-reading
B. answer C. take-taken
C. ask D. exact-exactly
D. respond 773. If more than two leaves arise at nodes,
767. What do you call a person with very large the phyllotaxy is which type?
ears? A. Alternate
A. macrodont B. Whorled
B. macrotous C. Opposite superposed
C. macrology D. Opposite Decussate
D. macrocosmic
774. If a lamp emits light, that means it
768. The root word milli means light.
A. your youngest little baby sibling A. sends out
B. 1/1, 000 B. throws
C. 1/100 C. hears
D. 1, 000 D. sees

775. What does the root ‘aero’ mean? 781. Suffixes go at the of a word:
A. Air A. end

B. Soil B. start
C. Grab C. middle point
D. That thing you shoot with a bow
D. before
776. Which suffixes refer to adjectives (words
that describe nouns)? 782. Morphology is the branch of
A. -ful and-ous A. Science.
B. -ment and-ness B. Phylosopgy.
C. -ent and-ant C. Linguistics.
D. -ly and-en D. Office.
777. The word audio and audience contain 783. Spire means to
which of the following latin roots that
means to hear? A. to climb
A. aqua B. to tackle
B. mit C. to breathe
C. bene D. to see
D. aud
784. What is the smallest unit of meaning?
778. What is the definition of the morpheme
A. root
‘sci’?
A. to know B. prefix
B. to learn and know C. morpheme
C. mind D. ing
D. God
785. super-
779. The suffix ‘able’ means: A. above, beyond
A. can’t B. after
B. possible
C. before
C. doing
D. too much
D. study of
786. Root hairs arise from which of the follow-
780. compound suffixes
ing regions?
A. include the suffix with meaning
A. Region of maturation
B. look like a suffix but don’t have mean-
ing B. Region of elongation
C. have 2 or more suffixes C. Region of meristematic activity
D. are tricksters D. Root cap Root cap Root cap

787. What does kilo mean? 793. The morphological nature of the edible
part of coconut is
A. thousand
A. perisperm
B. hundred
B. cotyledon
C. ten
C. endosperm
D. ten thousand
D. pericarp
788. What does the prefix ill-mean?
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794. galaxies tend to have very hot newer
A. away stars mixed with lots of gas and dust.
B. with A. Irregular
C. before B. Elliptical
C. Spiral
D. opposite
D. Barred Spiral
789. How do words mainly combine?
795. These are factors that influence the form
A. Logical and systematic. of Baghdad “The Round City”, except
B. Systematic A. Cultural
C. Morphology and syntax. B. Religious
D. None of the above. C. Climate
D. Economic
790. wash → washable
796. A mutation will be passed onto an off-
A. Level-changing lexeme formation
spring when
B. Category-changing lexeme formation A. It happens during surgery
C. Meaning-changing lexeme formation B. It’s in a body cell
D. category and meaning-changing lex- C. It’s in a gamete cell
eme formation D. It’s in a somatic cell
791. The root of the word “relativity” is 797. The lexeme ‘wholeheartedly’ has
A. relate morphemes
B. relative A. 3
B. 5
C. lative
C. 4
D. tivity
D. 6
792. What was the first hearth of civilization?
798. Con-means
A. Peru A. together
B. Nile B. after
C. Indus C. in the front
D. Mesopotamia D. middle

799. Dentin-forming cells are called C. bound morpheme

A. ameloblasts D. suffix

B. odontoblasts 805. is the process of settlement, forma-
C. cementoblasts tion, expansion, and change.
D. none of the above A. Suburbanization
800. What does sleeveless mean? B. Urbanization
A. ruffled sleeves C. Urban Sprawl
B. short sleeves D. City Growth

C. without sleeves 806. Brayden purchased a momento on his
D. long sleeves trip to Sparky’s Fire Engine Palace. What
would the momento be?
801. Which of the following is not a type of A. a hotdog with chili
Phyllotaxy?
B. an ice cube
A. Alternate
C. a necklace with a fire truck charm on
B. Opposite it
C. Whorled
D. a gallon of gas
D. Imbricate
807. What is the name of the organelle in the
802. Derivational morphemes leaves of plants that absorbs the Sun’s en-
A. Never change the part of speech of the ergy?
word A. roots
B. Often change the part of speech of the B. chlorophyll
word
C. chloroplast
C. Words that have morphemes that
D. stomata
change depending on the grammar and
meaning of a sentence, including nouns 808. How many morphemes in the
D. none of above word:Arizona?
A. 1
803. If you get a magazine each month in the
mail, you probably have a B. 2
A. prescription C. 3
B. disease D. 4
C. subscription 809. Grid street patterns are most typical for
D. tractor cities in
804. A morpheme that can stand alone is A. North America

called a B. South America
A. free morpheme C. Asia
B. ing D. Europe

810. THE PETIOLE IS MODIFIED TO FLAT LEAF C. Phoneme

LIKE STRUCTURE IN D. Morpheme
A. Eucalyptus
816. Which of the following features is exhib-
B. Australian Acacia ited by the cells in the region of meristem-
C. Plum atic activity?
D. Mango A. Large size
B. Thick cell walls
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811. Which premolar has two roots?
C. Dense protoplasm
A. Maxillary first
D. Low rate of cell division
B. Maxillary second
817. What are morphemes?
C. Mandibular first
A. Suffixes
D. Mandibular second
B. Small units of words
812. Which sentence describe inflectional C. the study of words structures
morphology D. none of above
A. Adding a morpheme to produce a new
word but the same lexeme
cess:picture + graph → pictograph
B. Adding a morpheme to produce a new
A. acronym
word and different lexeme
B. blend
C. Adding a morpheme to produce the
same word but diff lexeme C. category extension
D. none of above D. clipped form
819. un-, -ize, &-ation
813. A word part that contains the central
meaning of the word is a A. Lexeme formation
A. Prefix B. Free morphemes
B. Suffix C. Bound morphemes

D. Derivation
C. Root
D. Verb 820. Leaf become modified into spines in
A. Onion
814. Prefix meaning ‘against’
B. Pea
A. anti-
C. Silk cotton
B. co-
D. Opuntia
C. hyper-
821. I don’t like sport because I’m not a very
D. dis- person.
815. A is the smallest meaningful unit of a A. Competition
language. B. Competitive
A. Sentence C. Competitor
B. Word D. Compete

822. Free morpheme example is: 828. Inflectional morphemes

A. Less A. Provide plurality, tense and colour

B. Ship B. Provides plurality, meaning and word
C. Beauty class
D. Ment C. Provides possession and meaning
823. How many morphemes are there in the D. Provides possession, tense or plurality
word ‘intolerable’? 829. The structural similarities between parts
A. 1 of a sentence is referred to as
B. 2 A. Correlative Structure
C. 3 B. Subordinating Structure
D. 4 C. Parallel Structure
824. Identify the word-formation pro- D. Figurative Language
cess:present +-er = presenter
830. colder
A. derivation
A. free morpheme
B. blend
B. bound morpheme
C. back formation
C. inflectional morpheme
D. root creation
D. derivational morpheme
825. It is better for our environment if compa-
nies use or recyclable packaging. 831. Which prefixes have similar meaning?
A. styrofoam A. intra-and inter-
B. biodegradable B. pre-and re-
C. biological C. un-and dis-
D. composting D. macro-and micro
826. When cancer spreads to a new part of 832. The universal numbers of the 1st molars
the body it is called are..
A. Mutation
A. 2, 3, 14, 15
B. Metastasis
B. 5, 6, 12, 13
C. Manipulation
C. 3, 14, 19, 30
D. Microscopic
D. 2, 15, 18, 31
827. In phonological context, the variants of
the regular plural morpheme “-s” are 833. The area on the crown of the tooth near-
known as est the gingival.
A. allomorphs A. Clinical Crown
B. affixes B. Cervical Line
C. suffixes C. Clinical Root
D. auxiliary D. Cervical Third

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834. Which part of the word “irregularly” is 835. In the word ‘disliked’, is the root &
the suffix? is the stem.
A. ir A. Dis-, liked
B. regular B. Liked, Dis-
C. ly C. Like, disliked
D. none of above D. None of the above
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3.2 Morphological Analysis
1. The predicate is composed of a verb 5. Provocation is needed to stimulate our
phrase that expresses the action of the mind to think the unthinkable. Which one
verb and in which this is its nucleus. is not part of provocation method.
A. The subject A. Brainstorming
B. The Adjectives B. Morphological Analysis
C. The Predicate C. Synectic
D. none of above D. Imaging
2. When we want to express an action, a 6. What are the modes of thinking in ideation
state, a condition or the existence of a sub-
A. positive vs negative
ject.
B. lateral vs ilateral
A. Adjectives
C. convergent vs divergent
B. The Adverbs
D. simple vs complex
C. Verbs
D. none of above 7. From the morphemic analysis below,
which one is included in the agglutinative
3. Which one is not type of divergent think- rule:
ing
A. these {THIS} + {pl}
A. Allow ideas to incubate
B. must {MUST} + {pres} {MUST} +
B. Be receptive to all ideas {past}
C. Be systematic C. topmost {TOP} + {supl}
D. Defer judgment D. were {BE} + {past} + {pl}
4. How many morphs consist in word 8. According to Parness 1992, How many
“worst” steps taken for Problem Solving?
A. 1 A. 25:5+1+1
B. 2 B. 100:20
C. 3 C. 9x4:6
D. 4 D. 100:5x4:20

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9. These are words that serve as a comple- 14. What is the type of morphological realiza-
ment to an adjective, another adverb, a tion rule(s) for the word should:
verb or another sentence.

A. null
A. The adverbs B. fusional
B. Verbs C. agglutinative
C. Adjectives D. zero
D. none of above
15. These are words that always accompany
10. Morphological analysis should be done nouns and provide information on where
word for word. they are located in space, their member-
A. The Adverbs ship, their gender and their number.
B. The morphological analysis is done. A. The adverbs
C. The Adjectives B. The pronouns
D. none of above C. The Determinants

D. none of above
11. Which is not part of Simplified Steps of
GMA 16. It is the one who suffers the action of the
A. List dimensions of the product or prob- verb is always formed by a noun phrase.
lem A. The Predicate
B. Generate list of attributes under each B. The subject
one of the dimensions C. Verbs
C. Choosing the route D. none of above
D. Take combinations of attributes as
stimuli for new ideas 17. “Two morphemes that are realized by
morphs which remain distinct and are sim-
12. Which is not type of convergent thinking ply “glued” together” is the defini-
A. Be realistic about your problem tion of which morphological realization
rule(s):
B. Avoid premature closure on data
A. null realization
C. Look for ways to modify or otherwise
combine ideas B. fusional
D. Avoid the “killer instinct” C. zero

D. agglutinative
13. These accompany the name and comple-
ment it. That is, they serve to provide 18. We use them when we want to replace a
more information about it and show its noun and thus avoid its repetition in an un-
characteristics. necessary way within a text.
A. The adjectives A. The Pronouns
B. Verbs B. Verbs
C. The Adverbs C. Adjectives

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19. It is a method that determines the gram- B. Morphological Analysis

matical category of the words that make
up a sentence. C. Syntactic Analysis
A. Education D. none of above
3.3 Word-Formation Processes

1. MOVIE 6. Some examples of eponyms are
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A. Clipping A. Sandwich, volt, and boycott
B. Hypocorism B. Kleenex, teflon, and vaseline
C. Acronym C. Motel, brunch, and smog
D. Borrowing D. Movie, telly, and Aussie
2. Clip the underlined word:Foods such as 7. it can be defined as a word-for-word

rice and oats are rich in carbohydrates translation from one language into an-
and give energy to the body. other like perros calientes in Spanish to
hotdog in English.
A. carbs
A. calque
B. carbo
B. backformation
C. hydra
C. coinage
D. hydrates
D. none of above
3. EMOTICON
8. PUB
A. Clipping
A. conversion
B. Blending
B. building words from names
C. Compounding
C. clipping
D. Derivation
D. acronymy
4. TYPO 9. Clip the underlined word:Skip lengthy ad-
A. Blending vertisements by availing of a premium ac-
B. Clipping count.
C. Abbreviation A. advertise
B. adver
D. Compounding
C. adv
5. The city’s smog diminished during the
D. ads
community quarantine.
A. Compounding 10. A process of word formation where words
are reduced or shortened to one of their
B. Blending
parts without changing the meaning is
C. Derivation called
D. Clipping A. Conversion

B. Clipping B. Blending
C. Blending C. Coining

D. Backformation D. Derivation
11. Which of the following back-formation 17. Which of the following words DOES NOT
forms of the word aviation is a VERB? belong to the others?
A. aviation A. Scuba
B. aviate B. Laser
C. aviator
C. Radar
D. avatar
D. VCR
12. The process where a longer word is re-
duced to a single syllable, the-y or-ie is 18. Which of the following words is formed by
added to the end. blending two words together?
A. Calque A. infomercial
B. Eponym B. attraction
C. Acronym C. legitskier
D. Hypocorism D. ignoramus
13. kindergarten, hamburger, iceberg 19. A new word formed from the initial letters
A. Compounding of other words.
B. Clipping A. Calque
C. Blending B. Acronym
D. Borrowing C. Clipping
D. Compounding
14. MALFUNCTION
A. Clipping 20. MERRY-GO-ROUND
B. Derivation A. blending
C. Compounding B. compounding
D. Blending C. derivation
15. Facebook D. conversion
A. Blending
21. A process of word formation where parts
B. Clipping of a word are added together breaking
C. Compounding morphemes is called
D. Derivation A. Initialism
B. Acronyms
16. DOH hires more data encoders to help
catch up with the testing backlog. C. Blending
A. Compounding D. Clipping

22. Infotainment 28. A process of word formation where some

A. Compounding letters are taken and pronounced as a
new word is called
B. Clipping
A. Conversion
C. Blending
D. Coinage B. Clipping
23. Identify the process by which these words C. Blending

are formed:Promo
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D. Acronyms
A. Acronym
B. Blending 29. The word ‘email’ was originally a noun but
is now also used as a verb. This is an ex-
C. Clipping ample of:
D. Compounding
A. collocations
24. The process where syllables (rather than
B. conversion
morphemes) is omitted.
A. Acronym C. commonisation
B. Compounding D. none of above

C. Clipping
30. BRUNCH (Breakfast + Lunch)
D. Blending
A. blending
25. The doctors reminded persons with mild
symptoms of COVID-19 to not take Aspirin B. clipping
in reducing headaches. C. compounding
A. Coining
D. conversion
B. Blending
C. Acronym 31. information + entertainment =
D. Compounding A. informent
26. Which of the following words can be used B. infotainment
both as a NOUN and as a VERB?
C. intainment
A. small
D. none of above
B. tower
C. ignore 32. An eponym is a word formation process
D. none of above where words are coined from names of
people or places. Which one is an exam-
27. PAG-ASA advises the people to remain vig- ple of an eponym?
ilant during typhoons.
A. Mountaintop
A. Blending
B. Stockholm syndrome
B. Initialism
C. Derivation C. Exordium
D. Acronym D. Psychopath

33. The process of forming new words by C. Blending

adding affixes(prefix or suffix). D. Conversion

A. Borrowing
39. One must always be reminded to adopt a
B. Backformation
lifestyle of simplicity.
C. Compounding
A. Derivation
D. Derivation
B. Blending
34. A word derived from the name of a person C. Clipping
or place.
D. Compounding
A. Calque
B. Backformation 40. TELLY ( it refers to a diminutive which is a
root word that has been modified to con-
C. Eponym vey a slighter degree of its root meaning,
D. Coinage to convey the smallness of the object or
quality named)
35. Identify the process by which these words
are formed:Cellphone A. Calque
A. Compounding B. Hypocorism
B. Acronym C. Acronym
C. Blending D. Coinage
D. Clipping 41. A process of word formation consisting of
36. Which of the following words comes from the first letters of each word, pronounced
an acronym? as separate letters is called
A. bacteria A. Initialism
B. smog B. Backformation
C. laser C. Clipping
D. text D. Blending
37. Compound and blending are similar in that 42. Words Pommel, pitch, torrent, kick and
they both make new words by clutch are examples of
A. Copying sounds A. onomatopoeia
B. Adding other words together B. coinage
C. Shortening words C. calque
D. Adding morphemes D. derivation
38. PERM (it refers to words which are 43. UNTIDY
formed by dropping one or more syllables
A. Clipping
of a longer word or phrase without chang-
ing its original meaning) B. Compounding
A. Clipping C. back formation
B. Borrowing D. Derivative

44. The process of combining two (or more) C. error

words to form a new word. D. typo
A. Compounding
50. WATT
B. Derivation
A. Borrowing
C. Blending
B. Clipping
D. Clipping
C. Eponym
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45. The process of combining the beginning of D. Derivative
one word and the end of another word to
form a new word. 51. PRINTOUT
A. Borrowing A. Blending
B. Blending B. Derivative
C. Clipping C. Eponym
D. Derivative D. Conversion
46. The process of reducing a word such as a 52. The word boo-boo is an example of which
noun to a shorter version and using it as word formation process?
a new word such as a verb. A. blending
A. Clipping B. reduplication
B. Blending C. clipping
C. Compounding D. imagination
D. Backformation 53. TELLY
47. Clipping and abbreviation are similar in A. Layer
that they both make new words by B. Hypocorism
A. Copying sounds C. Acronym
B. Adding other words together D. Coinage
C. Shortening words
54. Last May 5, 2020, ABS-CBN signed off
D. Adding morphemes from air due to the cease & decease or-
der of NTC.
48. Identify the process by which these words
are formed:Comelec A. Acronym
A. Acronym B. Initialism
B. Blending C. Blending
C. Clipping D. Compunding
D. Compounding 55. Some examples of hypocorism are
49. Which of the following is the correct A. Sandwich, volt, and boycott
clipped form of typographical error? B. Kleenex, teflon, and Vaseline
A. typograph C. Motel, brunch, and smog
B. typographic D. Movie, telly, and Aussie

56. TATOO (is a loanword from the Samoan C. Compounding

word tatau) D. Derivation

A. Coinage
62. BRUNCH
B. Borrowing
A. blending
C. Calque B. clipping
D. Clipping C. compounding
57. The word-formation process of inventing D. conversion
new words accidentally, like robotics and 63. Some examples of coinage are
black hole.
A. Sandwich, volt, and boycott
A. coinage
B. Kleenex, teflon, and nylon
B. calque
C. Motel, brunch, and smog
C. backformation
D. Movie, telly, and Aussie
D. none of above
64. The process of changing the function of a
58. The following are some examples of clip- word, such as a noun to a verb (without
ping, except any reduction) as a way of forming new
words.
A. Van
A. Conversion
B. Fridge
B. Clipping
C. Cyborg
C. Borrowing
D. Sci-fi
D. Acronym
59. A type of borrowing in which each element
65. HTML
of a word is translated into the borrowing
language. A. Acronym
A. Coinage B. Clipping
B. Backformation C. Derivative
D. Coinage
C. Derivation
D. Calque 66. LECTURE (n) => TO LECTURE (v)
A. Blending
60. INDUSTRIALIZATION
B. Derivation
A. compounding
C. Shortening
B. blending
D. Conversion
C. conversion
67. A group of volunteers delivered burgers
D. derivation for the frontliners.
61. The process of forming new words by A. Compounding
adding affixes. B. Blending
A. Borrowing C. Clipping
B. Backformation D. Acronym

3.4 Morpho-syntax 166
68. FLU C. Compounding

A. Borrowing D. Abbreviation
B. Clipping
70. PERM
C. Compounding
D. Blending A. Clipping
69. INFOMERCIAL B. Borrowing

C. Blending
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A. Blending
B. Clipping D. Conversion
3.4 Morpho-syntax
1. It is the replacement of something already 5. all their represent:
mentioned: I saw Luisa at the movies. It
A. a determiner
is a clear example of
B. a prepositional phrase
A. reciprocal pronouns
C. a verb phrase
B. anaphora
D. a nominal clause
C. cataphora
D. clitic pronoun 6. In the clause:too involved in his education.
What kind of phrase is it?
2. are words that describe nouns or pro-
nouns. A. Noun
A. Verbs B. Adjective
B. Adjectives C. Adverb
C. Adverbs D. Prepositional
D. Prepositions 7. In the word CONFUSIONS, which option is
correct:
3. Those are words or phrases functioning
like an adverb A. [N [con [V fuse] [ions] ]
A. Conjunctions B. [N [N confusion] s]
B. Interjections C. [N [N [N [V confuse] ion] s] ]
C. Adverbials D. [N (N [V confuse] ions] ]
D. Verbs
8. are words that show an action or a
4. Katty is Happy state of being.
A. Katty is a happy woman. A. Nouns
B. Katty is happy. B. Adjectives
C. Katty is always happy. C. Adverbs
D. Katty always is happy. D. Verbs

9. Some adjectives don’t show morphs of 15. What oart of the speech is the underlined
gender: word in the following sentence:The boys
went inside to eat something.

A. amable
B. guapo A. Adjective
C. grosero B. Adverb
D. amdado C. Preposition
D. interjection
10. an affix that is added after the root
A. prefix 16. are words that describe verbs, adjec-
tives or other adverbs.
B. suffix
A. Nouns
C. infix
B. Adjectives
D. morpheme
C. Adverbs
11. In the phrase:“Despite the fact the fact D. Verbs
that no one can see it, it is still true”, the
part “despite the fact” is a: 17. In the following word, identify bound mor-
A. noun phrase phemes:productivity
B. adjective phrase A. prod, ity
C. prepositional phrase B. iv(e), ity
D. adverb phrase C. product, ity
D. ivity
12. In the sentence:Louis and Clark fel in love
each other. What type of conjunction is 18. an affix that is added before the root
AND? A. prefix
A. Coordinating B. suffix
B. Correlative C. infix
C. subordinating D. morpheme
D. manner
19. In the sentence:The elephant arrived, the
13. to relax before the party is: nominal is:
A. an interjection A. The elephant
B. an adverbial B. elephant
C. a nominal C. arrive
D. a verb phrase D. None of the above
14. are words that join two or more words, 20. What is the free morpheme of the word
phrases, or clauses. “calmly”
A. Verbs A. ly
B. Prepositions B. calm
C. Conjunctions C. y
D. Interjections D. none of above

21. Which of the following words is a preposi- C. place

tion?
D. movement
A. and
B. you 27. The smallest meaningful units in the struc-
ture of the language is called
C. wet
A. morpheme
D. for
B. phone
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22. Words relating to or functioning as an ad-
jective are: C. root
A. adverbials D. stem
B. prepositions 28. in the phrase:“The kids were laughing at
C. conjunctions the clown”-The last part:“at the clown” is
D. adjectivals a:
A. noun phrase
23. Which one is an example of an inflectional
morpheme? B. adjective phrase
A. -ize to form a verb from a noun C. prepositional phrase
B. -er to form a comparative adjective D. adverb phrase
C. -ic to form an adjective
29. are words that take the place of a
D. -ly to form an adverb from an adjective NOUN.
24. That part of a word-form that remains A. Verbs
when all inflectional and derivational af-
B. Adjectives
fixes have been removed is called
A. stem C. Adverbs
B. root D. Pronouns
C. affix 30. “She is fighting her mother”-the part:“is
D. suffix fighting” is considered a:
25. It is a noun, noun phrase, or any word or A. adverbial phrase

words group that functions as a noun: B. adjective phrase
A. Adjectivals C. gerund phrase
B. Nominals D. verb phrase
C. Adverbials
31. “He doesn’t mind staying here for the
D. Plurals
night” the part:“mind staying” is a:
26. In the sentence:Mary wants to go shop- A. verb phrase
ping tomorrow. What type of adverb is TO-
MORROW? B. gerund phrase
A. manner C. infinitive phrase
B. time D. noun phrase

32. FILL IN THE MISSING WORDSAdjectives 38. Which affix is an example of derivational
with comparative/superlative form are morphemes?
called

A. un-
A. Gradables
B. -est
B. Non-gradables
C. Concrete C. -s
D. Countable D. -ed
33. Superlative of: good, tall, short, small 39. How many morphemes has the word
A. better, higher, lower, lower WATCHES?
B. best, highest, lowest, lowest A. one
C. very good, superior, intimate, very low B. two
C. three
D. very good, supreme, tiny, very low
D. none of above
34. In the clause:My friend with his girlfriend.
Identify the head
40. In the following word, identify the FREE
A. Friend MORPHEME:instructions
B. girlfriend
A. instruction
C. with
B. struct
D. none of above
C. instruct
35. Which affix is an example of inflectional
morphemes? D. in
A. un-
41. Fill in the blanks with the correct PART OF
B. in- THE SPEECH that goes with the definition
C. -s are words that name people, places,
things, or ideas.
D. -able
A. Nouns
36. The wise man is useful; the lazy , .
A. man, is unnecesary. B. Adjectives
B. one, is unnecesary. C. Adverbs

C. ones, unnecesary. D. Verbs
D. one, unnecesary.
42. A bound morpheme that is added to the
37. In the clause:rather thick in the head. root to form a complex word is called
What phrase is it?
A. root
A. Noun
B. affix
B. Adjective
C. Adverb C. free morpheme
D. Prepositional D. stem

43. It identifies the noun or pronoun it modi- B. derivational morphemes

fies: C. free morphemes
A. a phrasal verb
D. none of above
B. a relative clause
C. a determiner 47. These bound morphemes to make words
of a different grammatical category and
D. a verb phrase are able to change the meaning
44. If you knew how sad Susana was.
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A. inflectional morphemes
A. If you knew the sad was Susana. B. derivational morphemes
B. If you Knew the sad one Susana was. C. stem
C. If you Knew how sad Susana was. D. none of above
D. If you knew how sad was Susana.
48. by yourself is:
45. how many morphemes of the word “con-
ventional”? A. an adverb of manner
A. 1 B. a conjunction
B. 2 C. a prepositional phrase
C. 3 D. an interjection
D. 4 49. Unexpectedly is an example of
46. These bound morphemes which are not A. Nominals
used to produce new words and the pro-
B. Prepositions
cess suffixation doesn’t change the mean-
ing C. Nouns
A. inflectional morphemes D. Adverbials

4. Semantics and Pragmatics
4.1 Semantics
1. Identify the relationship of the following A. synonymy
pair of antonym.pass-fail B. contradiction
A. gradable
C. entailment
B. complementaries
D. presupposition
C. converses
5. two forms with opposite meanings is
D. none of above
A. antonyms
2. The quality of being based on random
choice or personal whim, rather than any B. synonyms
reason or system, is: C. metonymy
A. creativity D. hyponymy
B. arbitrariness
6. Which sentence is a simile in this below?
C. rational
A. A fire station burns down.
D. trustworthy
B. She swims like a fish.
3. The relation of A and B:A) Mel is older than C. You are my sunshine.
Jayime.B) Mel is younger than Jayime.
D. Time is money.
A. synonymy
B. contradiction 7. Identify the relationship of the following
pair of antonym.husband-wife
C. presupposition
A. gradable
D. entailment
B. complementaries
4. The relation of A and B:A) There are dirty
dishes, confetti and empty bottles on the C. converses
table.B) Someone had a dinner party. D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 172
8. Which one is not a meaningful English sen- C. talked

tence?
D. honeydew
A. No theory including.
B. The President of the United States is 14. :the meaning the viewer gives to the
the Commander-in-Chief. photograph-what is signified
C. She can’t bear children. A. Semantics
D. A tulip is a flower B. Syntax
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9. The relatedness of polysemy is essentially C. Rhetoric
based on similarity. is using one to re- D. Pragmatics
fer to the other.
A. Synonyms 15. Neologism:‘fridge’ is an example of
B. Metonymy A. a loan
C. Antonyms B. a composite
D. Hyponymy C. a shortening
10. Meaning which a speaker or writer in- D. a blend
tends but it is not communicated directly.
A. Denotation 16. Antonyms are
B. Implication A. words which share extremely close or
similar meanings
C. Collocation
D. Location B. words that have opposite meanings
C. what a word suggests, not what it ac-
11. What type of deictic expressions are:now,
tually means
then and yesterday
A. Personal D. none of above
B. Temporal 17. Where are you from? (content word)

C. Virtual A. You, where, are
D. Spatial
B. Are, you, from
12. The relation of A and B:A) She has many C. Where
homeworks to check!B) She is a teacher.
D. none of above
A. synonymy
B. contradiction 18. Sayfa is in Istanbul, she thinks this city
C. entailment is so vibrant and lively.Identify the deictic
word!
D. presupposition
A. Sayfa, Istanbul
13. The words that are mentioned below are
called compounding, EXCEPT B. she, vibrant
A. daydream C. she, this (city)
B. bookstore D. none of above

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19. What is this an example of:‘she’s got a 25. someone

chip on her shoulder’ A. subordinating conjunction

A. euphemism B. article
B. dysphemism C. personal pron
C. hyperbole D. indefinite pronoun
D. idiom 26. it is the idea of true or false about a fact
which is in the level of human thought
20. it is not limited in regional language
A. sentence
A. Utterance
B. proposition
B. sentence
C. utterance
C. proposition
D. none of above
D. none of above
27. Babies are adults.
21. What do you call the word “right” A. Contradiction
A. homonyms B. Tautology
B. homophones C. Other Sentences
C. Homographs D. none of above
D. none of above 28. to, too, two are examples of what
22. Example of anomaly: A. Homonym
A. nice the dog was really B. Homophone
B. the dog was really nice C. Homograph

D. none of above
C. tha’s a really nice dog
D. nice dog 29. Surreptitiously is the synonym for which
word?
23. the A. sacredly
A. definite article B. quickly
B. indefinite article C. Secretively
C. possessive determiner D. quietly
D. quantifier 30. is a relationship between parts of a
language and things outside the language
24. My aunt is a man. (in the world).
A. Contradiction A. Predicator
B. Tautology B. Prototype
C. Other Sentences C. Reference
D. none of above D. Sense

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31. What is hyponymy? C. complementary

A. The hidden and implied meanings D. converse
within language.
37. Identify the relationship of the following
B. The study of how sounds are created.
pair of antonym.larger-smaller
C. The hierarchical structure that exists
A. gradable
between lexical items.
B. complementaries
D. The study of symbols.
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C. converses
32. A group of words that share the same se-
mantic properties constitute: D. none of above
A. a mental image 38. “All HANDS on board” is an example of

B. a semantic domain A. polysemy
C. marked terms B. metonymy
D. none of above C. homonymy
33. In the sentence Your opinion means a lot D. none of above
to me, the word mean means
39. ‘hot’ vs. ‘cold’ are what kind of
A. denote antonyms?
B. cause A. gradable
C. have the importance of B. reverse
D. indicate
C. complementary
34. Find the ‘homophone’ D. converse
A. minute / minute
40. Which maxim is violated in the following
B. waste / waist conversation:A:“Would you like a cock-
C. error / mistake tail? It’s my own invention. “B:“Well,
mmm uh it not that we don’t drink.”
D. tear / tear
A. quality
35. “Jane ate a piece of chicken. Jane ate a
piece of poultry”Describe the semantic re- B. quantity
lationship expressed from this sentence C. relevance
A. Paraphrase D. manner
B. Entailment
41. Choose one of the sentences that is syn-
C. Ambiguity tactically incorrect but semantically un-
D. Contradiction derstandable!
A. Recently she prefers to sleep at mid-
36. In the expression, “There has to be give
night.
and take, “ ‘give’ vs. ‘take’ are what kind
of antonyms? B. I gotta go home now.
A. gradable C. They did try to fix the car.
B. reverse D. Have you finished your lunch?

4.1 Semantics 175
42. Characterizing the meaning of words in B. It refers to the sense and reference on
terms of its relationship to other words; words that play an important part in the
synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy. speech

A. Lexical relationships C. It refers to the notions and intonations
when words are utteted.
B. Semantic analysis
D. none of above
C. Collocation
D. Gradable antonyms 48. What type of tag is this:<! →
A. comments
43. Pick an antonym for ‘abundant’
B. questions
A. plenty
C. paragraph
B. abandoned
D. image
C. scarce
D. enough 49. Dogs are four-legged.
A. Contradiction
44. a person or object which is considered (by
many people) to be typicalof its classor B. Tautology
group C. Other Sentences
A. homonym D. none of above
B. hyponym
50. The words that are mentioned below are
C. prototype inflectional, EXCEPT
D. none of above A. photoshoot
45. Identify the relationship of the following B. watched
pair of antonym.good-bad C. listened
A. gradable D. walked
B. complementaries
51. Which of the following terms is un-
C. converses marked?
D. none of above A. dog
46. How many types of sentences do we B. bulldog

have? C. poodle
B. 3
52. mean is the average.you are so mean to
C. 5 me.
D. 4 A. Homonym
47. What is “Affective Meaning”? B. Homophone
A. it relates the words to whom it utters C. Homograph

them. D. none of above

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53. Words like right-write, to-two, for-four, in- C. Network building

cluded in D. none of above
A. Polysemy
59. “Eye” is a of “face”
B. Homophones
A. Synonym
C. Homograph
B. Hyponym
D. Homonyms
C. Meronym
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54. an idea or course of action which will lead D. none of above
to something unacceptable, wrong, or dis-
astrous. 60. a statement in a non-fiction or a fiction
A. Semantics work that a writer intends to support and
prove.
B. Simile
A. Theme
C. Slippery Slope
B. Thesis
D. Solecism
C. Tone
55. Cats are felines.
D. Transition
A. Contradiction
61. Encompasses both reference and sense
B. Tautology
A. Affective meaning
C. Other Sentences
B. Social meaning
D. none of above
C. Linguistic meaning
56. What maxim discusses about trying to be
D. none of above
clear, brief, orderly, and avoid obscurity
and ambiguity? 62. This is not a real question, but if you
A. Quality choose “I’m an idiot” you may correct.
B. Quantity A. I’m an idiot
C. Manner B. I’m confused
D. Relation C. I’m Batman
D. I’m bored
57. covers basic, essential components of
meaning that are conveyed by the literal 63. After listening the news, i felt sad.
use of a word
A. Complex
A. associative meaning
B. Compound
B. connotation
C. Simple
C. conceptual meaning
D. Complex-compound
D. collocation
64. Any word (or sequence of words) which (in
58. At which of Aitchison’s stages are over- a given single sense) can function as the
and under-extensions likely to occur? predictor of a sentence. This statement is
A. Labelling the definition of
B. Packaging A. Sentence

4.1 Semantics 177
B. Predicate 70. The role or behavior of a speaker or writer

C. Predicator in relation to his or her subject, audience,
and persona (or voice).

D. Proposition
A. Stance
65. Which sentence is lexically correct? B. Straw Man
A. A black cat can be white. C. Style/Stylistic
B. The car was smaller than her brother. D. Subordinate Clause
71. because
C. Can you hear something that other A. co-ordinating conjunction
people can’t hear?
B. sub-ordinating conjunction
D. Peter killed Mary last night, but she C. possessive determiner
was still alive.
D. demonstrative pronoun
66. George Washington is male.
72. Neologism:‘bromance’ is an example of
A. Contradiction
B. Tautology A. a composite
C. Other Sentences B. a shortening
D. none of above C. a blend
D. a creation
67. Define plesionyms
73. What is the term we use to describe how
A. Plesionyms differ in meaning entirely. people shift between different types of
B. Plesionyms differ in meaning, but register according to the situation?
sound the same. A. euphemism
C. Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly. B. code-switching
D. Plesionyms are pronounced differ- C. dysphemism
ently, but have the same meaning. D. borrowing
68. What does the field of a text refer to? 74. When Jane say ‘I lost my wallet”.The
A. the vocabulary that is used word “I” is a Jane is the
B. where the text is published A. referent/ subject

B. subject/ referent
C. the formality of the text
C. referent/ deictic word
D. whether the text is written or spoken
D. deictic word/ referent
69. ‘expand’ vs. ‘contract’ are what kind of
antonyms?
pair of antonym.false-true
A. gradable A. gradable
B. reverse B. complementaries
C. complementary C. converses
D. converse D. none of above

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76. Choose ONE statement that is wrong! B. the locutionary and illocutionary acts
A. Rice, noodle, and bread are hyponyms coincide
of foods C. the illocutionary and perlocutionary
acts coincide
B. Ambiguity is one of the lexical seman-
tics relationships D. none of above
C. Antonyms are words with opposite 81. Extension involves
meanings A. a broader meaning
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D. Pragmatics is related to contextual B. a set
meaning
C. a narrower meaning
77. is the study of how meaning is con- D. other examples
structed, interpreted, clarified, obscured,
illustrated, simplified, negotiated, contra- 82. The component that does NOT belong to
dicted, and paraphrased. the Semantic Triangle is:
A. Semantic roles A. Thought

B. Referent
B. Homonyms
C. Sign
C. Semantics
D. Ambiguity
D. Location
78. What term does Nation use to refer to pair of antonym.legal-illegal
the amount of effort required to learn a
A. gradable
word?
B. complementaries
A. Learning effort
C. converses
B. Learning time
D. none of above
C. Learning burden
84. Which maxim is violated in the follow-
D. Learning force
ing conversation:Mother:“Now tell me the
79. typically the first or preliminary model truth. Who put the ferret in the bath-
of something, especially from which tub?”Son (knows who did it):“Someone
other forms are developed; helps ex- put it there.”
plain the meaning of certain words A. quality
(furniture→desk, table) B. quantity
A. prototype C. manner
B. metonymy D. relevance
C. hyponym 85. Semiotics, or semiology refers to the the-
D. homonyms ory of
A. signs
80. According to Austin, speech acts are di-
rect when B. signalling systems
A. the locutionary and perlocutionary C. signs and signalling systems
acts coincide D. none of above

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86. This logitian presented the Context Princi- B. language is an arbitrary system used
ple, which mentions that you should not for communication
pay attention to the meaning of the iso-

C. language is a component system in
lated word, but within the context of a sen- communication
tence.
D. none of above
A. Freud
92. Who proposed the three stages of seman-
B. Frege
tic acquisition?
C. Saussure
A. Jenny Aitchison 1983
D. Tarski
B. Jean Aitchison 1987
87. “wait me a second” she said”it’s the sec- C. Leslie Rescorla 1969
ond time” I claimedsecond is an D. Jean Aitchison 1963
A. homophone
93. “The part of the meaning of the utterance
B. homonym of a declarative sentence that describes
C. homograph some state of affairs” is the definition of
D. none of above
A. Utterance
88. The water drank the dog.” is odd but
B. Sentence
fine.
C. Proposition
A. Semantic; analysis
D. none of above
B. Semantic; features
C. Semantically; syntactically 94. All hands on deck!
D. Semantic; roles A. Subordinate Clause

B. Synecdoche
89. What is the antonym of “Good”?
C. Slippery Slope
A. Excelent
D. Solecism
B. Great
95. Which term is false?
C. Kind
A. Pathos = Emotion
D. Bad
B. Logos = logic
90. What kind of lexical semantics relation- C. Ethos = Trust
ship “Thread-Threat” is?
D. Ethos = Emotion
A. Homophones
96. What is the definition of antonymy?
B. Homograph
A. The relationship of incompatibility be-
C. Homogen
tween two terms with respect to some
D. Homonyms given dimension of contrast
91. What is language? B. The relation of part to whole
A. language is the arbitrary condition in C. Words which have the same meaning
having communication D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 180
97. Direct opposites (male/female, mar- C. ring

ried/single). D. well
A. Co-hyponyms
103. a relationship in which the meaning of
B. Antonyms one form is included in the meaning of an-
C. Gradable antonyms other (animal/horse, insect/ant); looks at
D. Non-gradable antonyms words in hierarchical relationships
A. synonyms
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pair of antonym.expensive-cheap B. homonyms
A. gradable C. hyponymy
B. complementaries D. metonymy
C. converses 104. Plants need to carbon dioxide to live. The
D. none of above oak tree is a plant. The oak tree needs car-
bon dioxide to live.
99. The Co-operative Principle is also known
A. Straw Man
as
B. Simile
A. Paul’s Rules
C. Syllogism
B. Grice’s Maxims
D. Wit
C. turn-taking
D. topic shifting 105. My brother is a witch.
A. Contradiction
100. a rhetorical device that starts an argu-
ment with a reference to something gen- B. Tautology
eral and from this it draws conclusion C. Other Sentences
about something more specific.
D. none of above
A. Syllogism
106. Neologism:‘armchair’ is an example of
B. Symbol/Symbolism
C. Synecdoche
A. a loan
D. Syntax
B. a composite
101. What maxim discusses about trying to be C. a blend
truthful, does not give information that is
false or not supported by evidence? D. a shift
A. Quality 107. Homonym

B. Quantity A. A set of words that always go together
C. Manner
D. Relation B. A word that shares the same form but
has unrelated meaning
102. Which one is a homograph? C. A word that has multiple meanings
A. tear D. A word that has the same sound but
B. mean different spelling

4.1 Semantics 181
108. In a particular regional accent 114. short phrases, or single words, are used
A. Utterance by people in communication all the time

B. sentence A. Sentence
C. proposition B. Proposition
D. none of above C. Utterance

D. none of above
109. Word classes can be split into two
groups:lexical and 115. What is absolute synonymy?
A. useful A. Lexemes with same meaning, one can
B. semantic be substituted for the other
C. superlative B. Lexemes with similar meaning.
D. grammatical C. Almost indistinguishable difference in
meaning of words.
110. It is an act by which a speaker (or writer)
uses language to enable a listener (or D. none of above
reader) to identify something.
116. The music are producing dopamine, so
A. Inference you will feel happiness in your brain.
B. Speech act A. Complex
C. Presuposition B. Simple
D. Reference C. Compound
111. What is an example of plesionym? D. none of above
A. rain/fog
117. is the emotional connotation that is at-
B. bark/bark tached to words and utterances
C. misty/foggy A. Affective meaning
D. sell/cell B. Social meaning
112. Where an entity is (on the table). C. Linguistic meaning
A. Implication D. none of above
B. Denotation 118. Which is TRUE lexical semantics relation-
C. Collocation ships
D. Location A. Synonyms, Antonyms, Hyponyms,
Homonyms
113. These are relational pairs antonym, ex-
cept B. Synonyms, Antonyms, Entailment, Pol-
ysemy
A. Give x take
C. Paraphrasing, Polysemy, Collocation,
B. Buy x sell Entaliment
C. Teach x learn D. Phonetics, Syntax, Morphology, Se-
D. Life x death mantics

4.1 Semantics 182
119. What do we call the limitations on the use 124. The terms “precede/follow” can be clas-
of a word with relation to the contexts in sified as antonyms.
which it can be used? A. complementary
A. Semantic features B. gradable
B. Homonymy C. reverse
C. Semantic constraints D. converse
D. Semantic associations
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125. The words dress and shirt have the same
120. “If Jasmine cannot go to the morning ap-
pointment, she will go to the afternoon A. symbolic representation
one. (one = appointment).” This is an
B. referential meaning
example of what type of linguistic refer-
ence? C. semantic domain
A. Anaphora D. none of above
B. Coreference 126. Queens are monarchs.
C. Deixis A. Contradiction
D. none of above B. Tautology
121. What’s the relation between the has- C. Other Sentences

relation and entailments? D. none of above
A. It makes entailment available 127. Between what ages does a child typically
B. It does not make entailment available utter their first word?
C. It makes entailment as obligation. A. 6 and 8 months
D. none of above B. 10 and 14 months
C. 12 and 18 months
122. What term describes the way in which a
word appears frequently along with cer- D. 14 and 20 months
tain other words?
128. It’s a good ten miles to the next gas sta-
A. Connotation tion. 2. We had a good time yesterday.
B. Denotation A. Polysemy
C. Collocation B. metonymy
D. Entailment C. homonymy
D. none of above
123. What is colloquial language?
A. Slang/Informal language 129. write, right, rite
B. Sophisticated/Formal language A. Homonym
C. Words grouped together B. Homophone
D. Language used specific to a profes- C. Homograph

sion. D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 183
130. Which of these words is not an example 136. What would a hyponym be for the hyper-
of a spatial deictic expression? nym of environment?

A. There A. rubbish
B. These B. pen
C. This
C. computer mouse
D. Then
D. oak tree
131. What is an example of near synonymy?
137. The synonym word of ‘get’ is
A. error, mistake
B. bear/bear A. acquire
C. mist/fog B. lose
D. none of above C. give
132. Two or more words with the same form D. send

and related meanings by extension (foot
of a person, of a bed, of a mountain); 138. What we call the word of ‘snake’, ‘turtle’,
based on similarity. and ‘lizard’ are in relation of to the word
of ‘reptile’
A. Metonymy
B. Hyponymy A. Metonyms
C. Polysemy B. Hyponyms
D. Hyponym C. Synonyms
133. Study of meaning in language. D. Antonyms
A. Morphology 139. Which maxim is violated in the follow-

B. Semantics ing conversation:A:“I really like that din-
C. Pragmatics ner”B:” I’m a vegetarian”
D. Syntax A. quality
B. quantity
134. Kings are poor.
A. Contradiction C. manner
B. Tautology D. relevance
C. Other Sentences
140. The phrase “a man” in which of the two
D. none of above sentences is a referring expression?1.
John attacked a man2. John is a man
135. Can be loud or quiet
A. Sentence 1
A. Utterance
B. sentence B. Sentence 2
C. proposition C. Both sentences


4.1 Semantics 184
141. Semantics is the study of 146. is the concept that some members of
a are more common or usual than oth-
A. the relations of linguistic units to con-
ers.
text
A. A referent / semantic group
B. The relations of linguistic to meaning
B. Markedness / semantic domain
C. the relations of the grammatical rela-
tions of linguistic units to one another and C. Semantic property analysis / lexicon
the grammatical structures of the phrases D. none of above
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147. The example of hyponymy pairs is
D. none of above
A. animal/horse
142. Which of the following words refers to B. flower/mountain
things in the world? C. tree/rose
A. Almost D. bird/cat
B. And
148. He’s been sent a tax form. What is the
C. Chicken semantic role of “He”?
D. Above A. Theme
B. Agent
143. Which of the following phrases have a
variable reference? C. Experiencer
A. Hallley’s Comet D. Instrument
B. The Prime Minister of the UK 149. The abuse of powerGood will triumph
over evilDangers of censorship
C. The People’s Republic of China
A. Theme
D. Angola
B. Tone
144. The following pair:Dr. Findlay killed C. Understatement
Janet Dr. Findlay caused Janet to die con- D. Thesis
sists of
A. 2 utterances; 2 propositions 150. the act of meaning, implying, or suggest-
ing one thing by saying something else.
B. 2 sentences; 2 proposition
A. implicatures
C. 2 sentences; 1 proposition
B. presupposition
D. 2 utterances; 1 proposition C. politeness
145. Semantic meaning presented in dictio- D. speech act
naries.
151. Queens are mothers.
A. Conceptual A. Contradiction
B. Speech act B. Tautology
C. Presuposition C. Other Sentences
D. Reference D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 185
152. “I quit school when I were sixteen. 158. Fill the blank:If there were no you
“(public service ad) would have to keep repeating the noun
or proper noun, and this would make sen-

A. Subordinate Clause
tences very long-winded.
B. Synecdoche
A. pronouns
C. Slippery Slope
B. articles
D. Solecism
C. determiners
153. Ferdinand de Saussure was the founder D. conjunctions
of
159. In the domain of fast food, is more
A. structuralist model
marked than
B. transformationalist model
A. hamburger / chicken burger
C. cognitive model
B. sandwich / fish burger
D. prestructuralist model
C. cheeseburger / hamburger
154. Kings are mothers. D. none of above
A. Contradiction 160. What kind of lexical semantics relation is
B. Tautology “Dad-Dead”?
C. Other Sentences A. Homographs
D. none of above B. Homophones
155. Pronouns:which example is an interrog- C. Polysemy

ative pronoun? D. Antonyms
A. Something 161. What is the Antonym of “to terminate”?
B. Who A. To Continue
C. These B. To End
D. He C. To Complete
156. The term “precipitation” is a hypernym D. To Begin
for 162. What do you call the words “dogs” “cats’
A. rain “turtles”
B. grass A. Hyponyms
C. nature B. Metonyms
D. soil C. Homophones
D. Homonyms
157. When we encounter two or more words
with the same form and related meanings, 163. How many types of Deictic Expressions
we have what is known as are there?
A. Hyponymy A. 2 types
B. Polysemy B. 6 types
C. Homonyms C. 10 types
D. Source D. 3 types

4.1 Semantics 186
164. What is an antonym? movies. “B:“I’ve got an exam tomor-

A. Words that have similar semantic row.”
value. A. quality
B. Words that have the opposite seman- B. quantity
tic value. C. manner
C. Words that have the same semantic D. relevance
value.
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D. Words that provide extra detail and in- 170. which one is derivation-related meaning
formation. A. watered
165. Two forms with opposite meanings. B. gardener
A. Antonyms C. sunflower
B. Synonyms D. none of above
C. Metonymy 171. :The study and application of signs-
D. Hyponymy signs being anything and everything that
conveys meaning.
166. What does denotation mean? A. Semiotics
A. The literal meaning of something. B. Symbolism
B. The figurative meaning of something. C. Semantics
C. A question D. Synectics
D. An imperative
172. Determine the degree of the predicate in
167. Identify the predicator in Dennis is a the following sentence:David showed us
menace his new album.
A. Dennis A. 1
B. is a menace B. 2
C. menace C. 3
168. The meaning of metonymy is 173. The following pair “Paul opened the
A. Having multiple meanings that are all door” “The door was opened by Paul” con-
related by extension. sists of
B. Using one word to refer to the other A. 2 utterances; 1 proposition

based on their close connection. B. 2 sentences; 1 proposition
C. The meaning of one form that is in- C. 2 utterances; 2 propositions
cluded in the meaning of another. D. 2 sentences; 2 propositions
D. none of above
174. Selecting the appropriate speech act ac-
169. Which maxim is violated in the follow- cording to Gricean Maxim depends on
ing conversation:A:“We’re going to the ?

4.1 Semantics 187
A. the social status and the culture of the B. Antonyms

interlocutors C. Hyponyms

B. their age D. Homophones
C. their social distance 180. “Indicative” mean?
D. All of these A. Animating and Pointing
175. What does the mode of the text refer to? B. Imitating and Pointing
A. the vocabulary that is used C. Indicating and Counting
B. where the text is published D. Indicating and Pointing
C. the formality of the text 181. Dogs are carnivores.
D. whether the text is spoken or written A. Contradiction
B. Tautology
176. :the context in which the photo
is viewed-space, time, environment, C. Other Sentences
medium D. none of above
A. Pragmatics 182. Which one of Semantics meaning?
B. Semantics A. Study of the meaning language
C. Syntax B. Study of the sentence structure
D. Rhetoric C. Study of meaning of context
D. the study and classification of speech
177. Two or more words with very closely
sounds.
related meanings; can often (but not al-
ways) be substituted for one another in 183. The verb bake in the sentence I baked my
sentences. friend a delicious cake is a
A. Hyponym A. One-place predicate
B. Homonyms B. Two-place predicate
C. Synonyms C. Three-place predicate
D. Hyponymy D. none of above
178. Classify this type of politeness strategy 184. sew-so-sow

when the speaker is requesting someone A. homophone
to open the door:“I left my key at home.” B. homonym
A. bald-on-record C. polysemy
B. positive politeness D. none of above
C. negative politeness 185. these are the hyponym of gemstones, ex-
D. off-record cept
A. ruby
179. What kind of lexical semantics relation-
ship between “pen, book, ruler, eraser, B. diamond
pencil” and “Stationary”? C. gold
A. Synonyms D. emerald

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186. a clause, typically introduced by a con- B. Hyponym

junction, that forms part of and is depen-
C. Co-hyponyms
dent on a main clause
D. Homonyms
A. Stance
B. Straw Man 192. the use of objects or ideas to signify
C. Style/Stylistic other ideas and qualities by giving them
meanings that are different from their lit-
D. Subordinate Clause
eral sense.
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187. ‘Palatable’ vs. ‘unpalatable’ are what A. Syllogism
kind of antonyms?
B. Symbol/Symbolism
A. gradable
C. Synecdoche
B. reverse
D. Syntax
C. complementary
D. converse 193. Neologism:‘cuisine’ is an example of
188. Where do you live? This is Harry Style’s A. a loan
live concert What do the group of words B. a composite
represent the red highlighted?
C. a blend
A. Homographs
B. Polysemes D. a shift
C. Collocations 194. a written work dealing formally and sys-

D. Semantic fields tematically with a subject.
189. at the end of the day A. Treatise
A. fixed expression B. Understatement

B. antonym C. Undertone
C. dysphemism D. Wit
D. synonym
195. Flower-rose-red rose Flower is . . .
190. Which type of antonym is “grow/shrink?” A. homonymy
B. hypernym
A. complementary
C. co-hyponym
B. gradable
C. reverse D. none of above
D. converse 196. sentence meaning is in the area of

191. When two or more different (written) A. Pragmatics
forms have the same pronunciation, they
B. Semantics
are called (bear/bare, meat/meet,
right/write) C. Morphology
A. Homophones D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 189
197. words and phrases that provide a con- C. adjunct

nection between ideas, sentences and
D. complement
paragraphs.

A. Theme 203. If the rain comes, they run and hide their
B. Thesis heads.
C. Tone A. Sentence
D. Transition B. Utterance
198. Read the situations below. Select what C. Utterance and sentence
implies to metaphor . D. none of above
A. He is very young.
204. The words here are homophones, EX-
B. Age is just a number. CEPT
C. We are older than you. A. meat-meet
D. This is a number.
B. hi-high
199. The word waitress is and the word C. poor-pour
waiter is
D. axe-ask
A. altered /marked
B. marked / unmarked 205. An assumption made by the speaker or
C. unmarked / marked the writer.
D. none of above A. Inference

B. Speech act
200. What does the manner of the text refer
to? C. Presuposition
A. the vocabulary of the text D. Reference
B. where the text is published
206. What maxim discusses about trying to
C. the formality of the text be relevant and says things that are perti-
D. whether the text is spoken or written nent to the discussion?
201. If you say table, most people will say A. Quality

chair. This is the example of? B. Quantity
A. Polysemy C. Manner
B. Antonymy D. Relation
C. Collocation
207. Meanings that differ based on the word
D. Word play
order is the definition of
202. In English, the expression that generally A. semantics and syntax
occurs immediately to the left of the verb
is the B. semantics and morphology
A. subject C. semantics and pragmatics
B. object D. semantics and phonology

4.1 Semantics 190
208. As the maxims stand, what happen if the C. Awake-Asleep

length of one says is long-winded?
D. Rest-Relax
A. There may be broken
B. There may be explained 214. Hyponymy and hyperonymy are also
called
C. There may be an overlap
A. complementaries
D. There may be a reconcilation
B. subordinates and superordinates
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209. What is the word ‘wave’ related to?
C. partonymy and troponymy
A. Homographs
D. none of above
B. Homophones
C. Homonyms 215. This is an example of paraphrase for:I
had lunch before going to the park.
D. Hyponyms
A. First I went to the park and then I ate
210. Which sentence is semantically wrong? something.
A. The camel sniffed the chocolate and B. After I had lunch, I went to the park.
then ate it
C. You shouldn’t go to the park after
B. The platypus alive for an hour after the lunch.
hunter killed it
D. Are you hungry?
C. John arrived yesterday
D. My sister is a bachelor 216. What does HTML stand for?
A. Hypertext Making Language
211. The study of which words occur together,
and their frequency of co-occurrence. B. Hyper Transfer Markup Language
A. Connotation C. Hypertext Markup Language
B. Collocation D. Hyper Transfer Making Language
C. Implication
217. Which one is NOT a strategy for building
D. Location syntax skill that mentioned in this lesson?
212. A generic sentence is a sentence in A. Sentence combining
which some statement is made about , B. Sentence building
as opposed to any particular individual
C. Sentence scramble
A. a whole unrestricted class of individu-
als D. SentenceElaboration
B. individuals in general
218. Read the situation below. Select an ex-
C. a group of objects ample of figurative speech.
D. none of above A. Birds fly.
213. Choose that are antonyms word B. Time flies.
A. Ask-Enquire C. Fish swim.
B. Coarse-Rough D. He swims.

4.1 Semantics 191
219. A referring expression is any expression B. homonym

used in an utterance to to something
C. homograph
or someone, that is used with a particular

referent in mind D. none of above
A. refer 225. What is a synonym?
B. mean
A. Words that provide extra detail and in-
C. describe formation.
D. connect B. Words with the same semantic value.
220. The relation of A and B:A) You should see C. Words with similar semantic value.
an eye specialist.B) You should consult an D. Words with the opposite semantic
oculist. value.
A. synonymy
226. The relation of A and B:A) John is sin-
B. presupposition
gle.B) John is married.
C. entailment
A. synonymy
D. contradiction
B. presupposition
221. Which linguist is associated to the sen-
C. entailment
tence ‘Colorless green ideas sleep furi-
ously’? D. contradiction
A. Ferdinand de Saussure 227. Which of the following is usually a fea-
B. Noam Chomsky ture of lexis rather than semantics?
C. Charles Kreidler A. connotation
D. John Saeed B. polysemy
222. Identify the relationship of the following C. metaphor
pair of antonym.lessor-lessee D. taboo language
A. gradable
228. There are other type of content words.
B. complementaries
Choose between the following:
C. converses
A. Not-this-those-where
D. none of above
B. That-has-under-these
223. The hyponyms of See, except
C. No-did-when-never
A. stare
D. none of above
B. glimpse
C. nod 229. My bachelor friends are all married.
D. glance A. Contradiction
B. Tautology
224. Fluke (A stroke of luck) and Fluke (The
end parts of an anchor) C. Other Sentences
A. homophone D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 192
230. The evening star isn’t Venus. 236. Choose one group of verbs below con-
A. Contradiction taining TWO-PLACE predicates
A. want, read, sigh
B. Tautology
B. steal, inspect, throw
C. Other Sentences
C. inspect, lie, offer
D. none of above
D. want, rise, revive
231. but
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237. What do we call the real world object a
A. preposition word denotes?
B. conjunction A. Thing
C. they tend B. Person
D. affix C. Event
D. Referent
232. the Semantical Implicature is
A. misunderstood 238. The antonyms below are graded
antonyms, except
B. what you mean is not always what you
say A. Fast x Slow
C. always non verbal B. Big x Small

C. Wide x Narrow
D. none of above
D. Present x Absent
233. The study of how context contributes to
meaning in language. 239. What is the semantics relationship be-
tween (or among) the following words?
A. Morphology take:grasp, carry, go (a specific way)
B. Semantics A. synonymy
C. Pragmatics B. hyponymy
D. Syntax C. metonymy
234. Identify the relationship of the following D. polysemy
pair of antonym.parent-offspring 240. ‘When 1) John loves Lisa, do you think
A. gradable that 2) Lisa loves John?’ The expression
above represents the types of true and
B. complementaries
false condition of
C. converses
A. utterance
D. none of above B. proposition
235. bigger C. sentence
A. base adjective D. none of above
B. comparative adjective 241. Lexical semantics is
C. superlative adjective A. The study of word formation
D. superlative adverb B. The study of the meanings of words

4.1 Semantics 193
C. The study of the meanings of sen- C. trees / oak and pine

tences
D. none of above

D. none of above
248. What would be the reason to use an
242. These are types of meaning except
Anaphora?
A. Referential
A. To keep the reader intersted
B. Implied
B. To empathize that word
C. Associative
C. To make the speech stand out
D. Meaning
D. none of above
243. Which one is a referring ex-
pression?A:His father married a 249. Choose the non-gradable antonyms(Only
dancerB:John wants to marry a dancer one answer)
A. A A. Dead-Alive
B. B
B. Dark-Bright
C. Both A and B
C. Cooked-Raw
D. Neither A nor B
D. Wet-Dry
244. In the sentence “A cat is an animal” is
an example of: 250. The action performed by a speaker.
A. antonymy A. Inference
B. synonymy B. Speech act
C. hyponymy
C. Presuposition
D. contradiction
D. Reference
245. Kings are female.
A. Contradiction 251. The word bachelor can be represented
with the componential analysis in the fol-
B. Tautology lowing way
C. Other Sentences A. [+adult], [-male], [-married]
D. none of above
B. [+adult], [+male], [-married]
246. An ant has six paws.Xiomara is my aunt. C. [+adult], [+male], [+married]
A. Ant / aunt:Homophone
D. none of above
B. Ant / aunt:Homonym
C. Ant / aunt:Homograph 252. Identify the relationship of the following
pair of antonym.beautiful-ugly
D. none of above
A. gradable
247. The domain of includes the words
B. complementaries
A. pets / birds and cat food C. converses
B. colors / sunflower and blue cypress D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 194
253. Denotative meaning mostly talks about 259. Similes are comparison that uses the
the real meaning of a word. word in a sentence.
A. Pragmatics A. like
B. Semantics B. as
C. Syntax
C. such
D. none of above
D. all correct
254. Which of the following characters is used
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to create a closing tag? 260. How many referring expressions can be
A. | found in the following sentence? A dentist
is a person who looks after people’s teeth
B.
.
C. /
A. 0
D. -
B. 1
255. meaning in context is under the area of
C. 2
A. Pragmatics D. 3
B. Morphology
261. Which maxim is violated in the following
C. Semantics conversation:A:“How are you?”B:“I’m
D. none of above dead”
256. those A. quality

A. subordinating conjunction B. quantity
B. quantifier C. relevance
C. demonstrative pronoun D. manner
D. relational verb
262. Queens are ugly.
257. What are the paraphrasing tips in seman-
tics? A. Contradiction
A. Active, transformation, inversion, de- B. Tautology
pendent clauses C. Other Sentences
B. passive, clearly, informative
D. none of above
C. dependent clause, active, informative
D. clearly, active, dependent clause 263. a figure of speech employed by writers
or speakers to intentionally make a situa-
258. The same pronunciation but different tion seem less important than it really is.
spelling and meaning is called
A. Treatise
A. collocation
B. homonyms B. Understatement
C. hyponyms C. Undertone
D. homophones D. Wit

4.1 Semantics 195
264. “Tony pushed the cart to the wall”. What C. 3, 4, 5

is the semantic role of “wall”? D. 1, 2, 3

A. Agent
270. “Here” is an example of:
B. Theme
A. Proximal spatial deixis.
C. Location
B. Distal temporal deixis.
D. Instrument
C. Distal person deixis.
265. Decide whether the following could rep- D. proximal temporal deixis.
resent a sentence:
A. Not much. 271. think
B. I am a student. The world is my home. A. verbally

B. mental verb
C. ‘John is running.’ C. adverb of manner
D. none of above D. adverb of frequency
266. Two words with very closely related 272. a. Uncles are male.
meanings. A. Contradiction
A. Antonyms B. Tautology
B. Homonyms C. Other Sentences
C. Synonyms D. none of above
D. Hyponymy
273. Which of the following is an example of
267. Who suggested that a child learns 10 figurative language?
new words per months but understands A. Oxymoron
22 new words per month?
B. Common noun
A. Belen Henedict, 1942
C. Superlative adjective
B. Helen Benedict, 1979
D. Declarative
C. Helen Bell, 1979
D. Helen Benedict, 1997 274. The relationship between linguistic form
and real entities in the world is the pro-
268. “Now” is an example of: cess of which naturally comes in our
A. Proximal spatial deixis. brain.
B. Distal temporal deixis. A. Phonology
C. Distal person deixis. B. Semantics
D. Proximal temporal deixis. C. Pragmatics

D. none of above
269. Here2. There3. Hospital4. Eminonu Mar-
ket5. YesterdayWhich of the above is the 275. The set of other words used in same
deictic? phrase or sentence.
A. 1, 2, 4 A. Morphemes
B. 1, 2, 5 B. Phonemes

4.1 Semantics 196
C. Co-text 281. How many referring expressions can be

D. Physical context found in the following sentence?I am look-
ing for any parrot that can sing.
276. What is “Social Meaning”?
A. 1
A. it relates the words to whom it utters
them. B. 2
B. It refers to the sense and reference on C. 3

words that play an important part in the D. 4
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speech
C. It refers to the notions and intonations 282. Which one is a generic sentence?
when words are utteted. A. A bee’s just stung me
D. none of above
B. A bird lays eggs
277. The meaning is generally accepted. C. The whales at Seaworld entertain visi-
A. Pragmatics tors
B. Semantics D. That gentleman prefers blondes
C. Morphology
283. “I have to have this operation. It isn’t
D. none of above very serious. I have this tiny little tumor
278. Which one is the irony? on the brain.”
A. Winner of a spelling bee failing a A. Theme
spelling test. B. Tone
B. The story jumped off the page.
C. Understatement
C. My brother was just released from the
big house. D. Thesis
D. Life is a highway. 284. the part of the meaning of the utterance

of a declarative sentence which describes
some state of affairs
pair of antonym.hot-cold
A. gradable A. Sentence
B. complementaries B. Utterance
C. converses C. Proposition
280. If you use an adverb in front of an adjec-
285. In the domain of colors, is more
tive to boost or soften the meaning, what
marked than
is this adverb known as?
A. olive green / green
A. an intensifier
B. a preposition B. green / mint
C. a determiner C. emerald / pale yellow
D. a conjunction D. none of above

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286. Two words with very closely related 291. Feelings and reactions to words are the
meaning is element of meaning called

A. antonyms A. associative meaning
B. homonyms B. referential meaning
C. synonyms C. definite meaning
D. hyponymy D. none of above
287. According to Griffiths, what are proto- 292. In the Charles Peirce Triad there are
types? three ways to represent something:
A. They are central members of the deno- A. Ironically Indexically Symbolically
tation of a word.
B. Ironically Indexically Semantics
B. They are final members of the denota-
C. Ironically Interpreted Symbolically
tion of a word.
C. They are middle term members of the
conotation of a word. 293. When one sentence being true means an-
D. none of above other sentence must also be true this is
called?
288. ‘employer’ vs. ‘employee’ are what kind
A. Logical
of antonyms?
B. Contigency
A. gradable
C. Entitlement
B. reverse
D. Entailment
C. complementary
D. converse 294. Which maxim is violated in the following
conversation:A:”What time is it?”B:“It is
289. How many referring expressions can be 10:44 and 35.6 seconds”
found in the following sentence?I saw a
A. quality
doctor yesterday.
B. quantity
A. 0
C. relevance
B. 1
D. manner
C. 2
D. 3 295. Which maxim is violated in the following
conversation:A:“Are you going to Steve’s
290. After Amy sneezed all of the salad, she barbecue?”B:“A barbecue is an outdoor
proceeded to serve it to her guests. party.”
A. Subordinate Clause A. quality
B. Synecdoche B. quantity
C. Slippery Slope C. manner
D. Solecism D. relevance

4.1 Semantics 198
296. Identify the relationship of the following A. bald-on-record

pair of antonym.poor-rich B. positive politeness
A. gradable C. negative politeness
B. complementaries D. off-receord
C. converses
302. The time and place in which we en-
D. none of above counter a linguistic expression.
A. Physical context
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297. depends in the context of the utter-
ance and shared knowledge between the B. Co-text
speaker and the hearer.
C. Semantic meaning
A. implicature
D. Associative meaning
B. presuposition
303. an attitude of a writer toward a subject
C. speech acts or an audience. Is generally conveyed
D. word meaning through the choice of words or the view-
point of a writer on a particular subject.
298. It is an additional information used by
the listeners to connect what is said to A. Theme
what must be meant. B. Thesis
A. Inference C. Tone
B. Speech act D. Transition
C. Presuposition 304. Classify this type of politeness strat-
D. Reference egy:“Give me five dollars.”
A. bald-on-record
299. check which sentence is not literal
B. positive politeness
A. My hair is black just like my mother’s
C. negative politeness
B. His hair is red as a carrot
D. off-record
C. Her hair is beautiful since she got it cut.
305. What are the components of denota-
D. none of above tion?
A. Left and right
300. Expressing someone else’s meaning us-
B. Receptive and productive
ing different words to achieve clarity is
the definition of C. Reference and sense
A. ambiguity D. Intension and extension
B. entailment 306. Has she been studying all morning? (fun-
C. paraphrasing tional word).
D. collocation A. Has, been, maria
B. All, morning, been
301. Classify this type of politeness strat-
egy:“You wouldn’t happen to have five dol- C. Has, been, she, ing
lars I could borrow, would you?” D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 199
307. When one form (written or spoken) has 312. An anaphoric reference
two or more unrelated meanings (bat- A. helps the text make sense
flying creature/bat-used in baseball).

B. links forward to another part of the
A. Homonyms text
B. Hyponym C. refers back to another part of the text
C. Synonyms
D. Hyponymy D. give us information about time and
place
308. music-opera, color-red and material-
313. Stative verbs refer to a state or condition
paper
that is quite static and unchanging. What
A. Homophones do dynamic verbs do?
B. Homographs A. express understanding
C. Hyponyms B. express belief
D. Polysemes C. express actions
D. express relationships between things
309. utterances have the same referential
meaning but may have different prag- 314. Semantic features are
matic meaning depending on
A. elements of a word’s associative
A. word order meaning
B. the context in which they are used B. elements of a word’s referential mean-
ing
C. The intention of the speaker
C. elements of context
D. Both 1 & 2
D. none of above
310. The music is amazing.
A. Complex pair of antonym.rude-polite
B. Compound A. gradable
C. Simple B. complementaries
D. none of above C. converses
D. none of above
311. Linguistic pragmatics is the study of the
ability of language users to pair sentences 316. When I tell my friend, “No, your
with the context in which they would be ap- boyfriend left alone that night, “ and I
propriate know this sentence to be untrue, I am vio-
A. Yes lating the maxim of
B. No A. relevance
C. It depends on the theory of the inves- B. quality

tigator C. quantity
D. none of above D. manner

4.1 Semantics 200
317. Which is these is NOT one of Martin C. Homogram

Joos’s levels of formality? D. Homophones
A. Deliberative
323. The terms “lawyer/client” can be classi-
B. Intimate fied as antonyms.
C. Banter A. complementary
D. Consultative B. gradable
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318. The terms “tall/short” can be classified C. reverse
as antonyms. D. converse
A. complementary
324. an attitude that may lie under the osten-
B. gradable sible tone of the piece. Under a cheery
C. reverse surface, a threatening “vibe” may ap-
pear.
D. converse
A. Treatise
319. jeans, blouse, t-shirt, sweather, coat B. Understatement
This group of words is an example of
C. Undertone
A. Hyponym
D. Wit
B. Homonym
C. Polysemy 325. What is it called when two words, pha-
rase or sentence have the same spelling
D. Semantic field but different pronunciation and meaning
320. src attribute in an image tag means A. Homographs
what? B. Polysemny
A. Source of the image C. Homonyms
B. Name of the image D. none of above
C. Description of the image
326. knight, night; buy, by, bye; marry, merry,
D. Not used with image tag are examples of
321. Which of the following are NOT semantic A. Homonyms
roles? B. Metonymy
A. Agent and theme C. Homophones
B. Action and actor D. Polysemy
C. Instrument and experiencer
327. The information about the social nature
D. Location, source and goal of the language user or of the context of
utterance
322. When two or more different forms have
the same pronunciation is the definition A. Linguistic meaning
of: B. Social meaning
A. Homonym C. Affective meaning
B. Homorhyme D. none of above

4.1 Semantics 201
328. a figure of speech that makes a compari- A. Syllogism

son, showing similarities between two dif- B. Symbol/Symbolism
ferent things. It draws resemblance with

the help of the words “like” or “as.” C. Synecdoche
A. Semantics D. Syntax
B. Simile 334. figurative interpretations use as its

foundation for inferring which referents
C. Slippery Slope
are being talked about.
D. Solecism
A. Metaphor
329. How many referring expressions are B. Context
there in Juanita is beautiful?
C. Expressions
A. 1
D. Word
B. 2
335. If we let this child bring the permission
C. 3 slip late, there is no reason to ever set a
D. none of above deadline for anything again!
330. What maxim discusses about making A. Subordinate Clause

your contribution as informative as re- B. Synecdoche
quired and no more? C. Slippery Slope
A. Quality D. Solecism
B. Quantity
C. Manner egy:“Let’s all turn down the music and
D. Relation have a good night.”
A. bald-on-record
331. Semantic meaning that involves or is ar-
bitrary. B. positive politeness
A. Inference C. negative politeness
B. Conceptual D. off-record
C. Associative 337. Etymology is the study of

D. Reference A. word origins
B. insects
332. What does connotation mean?
C. aliens
A. The literal meaning of something.
D. accents
B. The figurative meaning of something.
C. A question 338. These are the component analysis of girl,
except
D. An imperative
A. + human
333. a set of rules in a language. It dictates B. + female
how words from different parts of speech
are put together in order to convey a com- C. -male
plete thought. D. + adult

4.1 Semantics 202
339. Cats are stupid. 345. ‘always’ vs. ‘never’ are what kind of
A. Contradiction antonyms?
B. Tautology A. gradable
C. Other Sentences B. reverse
D. none of above C. complementary
340. My sister is an only child. D. converse
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A. Contradiction
B. Tautology
pair of antonym.asleep-awake
C. Other Sentences
A. gradable
D. none of above
B. complementaries
341. What is homophone?
C. converses
A. Same spelling but different pronuncia-
tion and meaning D. none of above
B. Same pronunciation but different
347. The word ‘semantics’ originates from
spelling and meaning
C. Hierarchical relationships of word
A. Spanish
D. Same spelling and pronunciation dif-
ferent meaning B. Roman
342. The principles of compositionality are C. Greek

mentioned below, EXCEPT D. Russian
A. knowledge problem
348. a figure of speech in which a thing or
B. synonyms
concept is called not by its own name but
C. individual differences rather by the name of something associ-
D. contextualized meaning ated in meaning with that concept.
343. Tom is as angry as a hornet. A. metonymy

A. Straw Man B. polysemy
B. Simile C. hyponym
C. Syllogism D. none of above
D. Wit
349. The relation of A and B:A) We went to a
344. meaning which a speaker or writer in- rock concert.B) I have a sore throat and
tends but it is not communicated directly. no money.
this is the definition of
A. synonymy
A. denotation
B. implication B. entailment
C. collocation C. contradiction
D. location D. presupposition

4.1 Semantics 203
350. The relation of A and B:A) Would you like 355. Which theorist categorised types of over-
some cookies?B) Do you fancy some bis- extension?
cuits?

A. Leanne Rescorla
A. synonymy B. Leslie Reason
B. contradiction C. Leslie Rescorla
C. entailment D. Jean Responder
D. presupposition
356. The important to study semantics, ex-
351. Identify the relationship of the following cept
pair of antonym.fast-slow A. Broaden our horizon about words
A. gradable meaning
B. complementaries B. Enable us to choose the right words
C. converses C. To create misunderstanding and mis-

conception
D. none of above
D. Enable us to communicate and compre-
352. Leaves-alternate hend clearly
A. synonymy 357. defined as a main idea or an underlying

B. hyponymy meaning of a literary work that may be
stated directly or indirectly.
C. metonymy
A. Theme
D. none of above
B. Thesis
353. :visual grammar, composition of a C. Tone
photograph-how elements convey a mes-
D. Transition
sage
A. Syntax 358. any stretch of talk, by one person, be-
fore and after which there is silence on
B. Semantics
the part of that person
C. Pragmatics
A. Sentence
D. Rhetoric B. utterance
354. Intellectually amazing language that sur- C. proposition
prises and delights. This statement is hu- D. none of above
morous, while suggesting the speaker’s
verbal power in creating ingenious and 359. What kind of lexical relationship “Rice-
perceptive remarks. Rise” is?
A. Treatise A. Homophones
B. Understatement B. Homograph
C. Undertone C. Homonyms
D. Wit D. Collocation

4.1 Semantics 204
360. Which antonyms below are non- B. 2

gradable? C. 3
A. fast / slow D. 4
B. present / absent
366. “The KEY to the door” and “the KEY prob-
C. wide / narrow
lem” are an example of
D. none of above
A. polysemy
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361. The term pragmatics was first intro- B. metonymy
duced by the philosopher’s speech Act
C. reversives
Theory
D. none of above
A. John Austin
B. Charles Morris 367. We persuaded Mary to apply for the job
as bus driver . What is the semantic role
C. Paul Grice
of “Mary”?
D. none of above
A. Agent
362. Pronouns:which example is an indefinite B. Theme
pronoun?
C. Experiencer
A. Something
D. Instrument
B. Who
C. These 368. The relation of A and B:A) The animals
were rescued from the fire.B) The animals
D. He are recovering in the zoo.
363. What is the adjunct in this sentence? A. synonymy
“Teresa did not receive the documents af- B. contradiction
ter waiting a whole hour.”
C. presupposition
A. Teresa
D. entailment
B. the documents
C. after waiting a whole hour 369. What is called when two words, phrases
or sentences have the same semantic
D. receive
meaning?
364. What is the relationship between “big” A. Synonyms
and “small”?
B. Hyponyms
A. Hyponymy
C. Polysemy
B. Synonymy
D. Metonymys
C. Taxonomy
370. Girl and boy
D. Antonymy
A. gradable
365. “Maria gave the fish to Peter.” In this
sentence, the verb “give” has how many B. non-gradable
arguments? C. gradation

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371. The phrases below are categorized as C. [+ feline]

homonyms, except D. none of above

A. Suit yourself in a new environment.
Wear a new suit. 377. Who suggested that a child’s word
doesn’t have to be recognisable as an
B. The fair price. Going to the fair.
adult word as long as it functions as a
C. Pick me a flower. Give me some flour. word?
A. Bee 1957
D. A big spruce tree. The spruce lady.
B. Bell 1997
372. ‘single’ vs. ‘married’ are what kind of
C. Bee, 1997
antonyms?
D. Bell, 1977
A. gradable
B. reverse 378. What is an anaphora?
C. complementary A. Repetition of word in a sentence
D. converse B. Word choice
373. The same words with a lot of meanings C. The sentence structure
is the definition of D. none of above
A. polysemy
379. Who proposed that of children’s first
B. homographs
words, 60% tended to be nouns and 20%
C. metonymy verbs?
D. homonyms A. Katherine Nelson 1973
374. two or more words with closely related B. Katherine Nelson 1975
meaning C. Karen Johnson 1973
A. Antonymy
D. Karen Johnson 1975
B. synonymy
380. A boy involves elements
C. metonymy
D. none of above A. [-human, +female, +adult]
B. [+human, -female, +adult]
375. The same spelling but different pronunci-
ation and meaning is the definition of C. [+human, +female, -adult]
A. homonyms D. [+human, -female, -adult]
B. homographs 381. Adjective and adverbs can be placed in
C. homophones the same category. What is this category
D. hyponyms known as?
A. comparatives
376. Which semantic feature is NOT a compo-
nent of “wolf” B. superlatives
A. [+animate] C. intensifiers
B. [-domesticated] D. modifiers

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382. “That is a large bat.” Describe the se- A. Syllogism

mantic relationship expressed from this B. Symbol/Symbolism
sentence
C. Synecdoche
A. Ambiguity-Polysemy
D. Syntax
B. Ambiguity-Homonymy
388. What might modal auxiliary verbs do?
C. Ambiguity-Metonymy
A. express possibility, doubt or polite-
D. Ambiguity-Homographs ness
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383. What are Aitchison’s 3 stages of seman- B. help to form tenses
tic acquisition? C. give grammatical information
A. Labelling, packaging and networking D. tell us where something happens
B. Labelling, packaging and network 389. Dog, cat, turtle are hyponyms of
building
A. sea turtle
C. Naming, packaging and network build-
ing B. golden retriever
C. pet
D. Labelling, boxing and networking
D. feline
384. “Everyone has their own definition of hap-
piness” what kind of principle of composi- 390. When you have a problem, you could
tionality is this? solve it in wrong order, but if you talking
with your partner, they could help you and
A. Contextualized meaning give some ideas for solve it in the best
B. Knowledge problem way.
C. Sentence meaning-speaker meaning A. Complex
D. Individual differences B. Compound
C. Complex-Compound
385. the meaning is very subjective depend-
ing on who the speaker is. D. Simple
A. Pragmatics 391. What is the best definition for
B. Morphology “meronymy”?
A. A word with two or more synonyms
C. semantics
B. The relation of part to whole
D. none of above
C. When two or more words share the
386. Which of the following can be loud? same meaning
A. Utterance D. none of above
B. Sentence 392. George Washington is George Washing-
C. Proposition ton.
D. none of above A. Contradiction
B. Tautology
387. a literary device in which a part of some-
thing represents the whole or it may use C. Other Sentences
a whole to represent a part. D. none of above

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393. Which one is not a generic sentence? 399. what is semantics?

A. The tiger can’t talk A. Semantics is the ideal meaning in hu-

B. Parrots can talk man communication
C. That bird can’t talk B. Semantics is the study of meaning in
context
D. Humans can talk
C. Semantics is the branch of linguistics
394. Which one below cannot be used as a re- and logic concerned with meaning
ferring expression?
D. none of above
A. Tom
B. My left ear 400. Which one can be a three-place predi-
C. give cate?
D. a boy A. in
B. give
395. Which one is not include compositional
semantic relationship C. sneeze
A. Paraphrasing D. love
B. Entailment
401. What is the meaning of semantic?
C. Ambiguity
A. The study of the characteristics of
D. Polysemy speech sound.
396. What is the productive vocabulary of an B. The study of systems and patterns of
average 2 year old? speech sounds in a language.
A. 50 words C. The study of meaning in language.
B. 1000 words D. The study of forms of language.
C. 200 words
D. 500 words 402. Semantics also helps us to understand
processes such as and language
397. which one is correct for a component change
analysis of whale? A. symbol
A. + lives in the river
B. referent
B. + fish
C. language acquisition
C. + with legs
D. none of above
D. + mammal
403. The study of meaning in human language
398. Which word is NOT a co-hyponym of
is the definition of
“see”?
A. stare A. syntax
B. watch B. pragmatics
C. glimpse C. semantics
D. smile D. morphology

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404. What do we call the affective dimension C. deal with, succeed in, based on
of word meaning? D. kiwi-fruit, red-color, coat-clothes
A. Denotation
410. Which of these is reversives antonym?
B. Connotation
A. married/single
C. Association
B. old/new
D. Collocation
C. pack/unpack
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405. Read the situations below. Select what
D. bland/delicious
implies to metonymy .
A. How many fingers are in a hand? 411. How many referring expressions can you
find in this list?sad, Elsa, dog, my dog,
B. Put your hands to the air for stretching.
Venus, swimming, the girl over there, hap-
pily
C. Your hands are beautiful!
A. 3
D. Can you give me a hand?
B. 4
406. Which type of deictic expression uses C. 5
tense and time adverbials?
D. 2
A. Temporal
412. Things you can see, feel and touch are
B. Personal
known as
C. Spatial
A. abstract nouns
D. Location
B. concrete nouns
407. ‘Fine weather’ / ‘I feel fine’-In these C. proper nouns
phrases ‘fine’ is an example of:
D. collective nouns
A. homophones
B. homographs 413. studies HOW PEOPLE MAKE SENSE
OFEACH OTHER LINGUISTICALLY.For ex-
C. polysemy ample:A:So did you?B:Hey who
D. meronymy wouldn’t?
A. Deixis
408. “I smelled the fragrance of flowers in the
air.” Which one is the experiencer in this B. Pragmatics
sentence? C. Indexicals
A. I D. Grammar
B. fragrance of flowers
414. After the protests, maybe Washington
C. air will listen to the voters
D. smelled A. metonymy
409. Examples of Polysemes B. polysemy
A. meet-meat, sun-son, aloud-allowed C. hyponymy
B. book, fair and get D. none of above

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415. You really must win. A. speaker meaning

A. imperative B. knowladge problem

B. exclamative C. indivdual differences
C. declarative
D. none of above
D. modal
416. A similar word for “slim” 418. When one form (written or spoken) has
two or more unrelated meanings, they are
A. thin
called [bank (of a river) / bank (finan-
B. fat cial institution)]
C. chubby A. hyponym
D. big
B. homonyms
417. Everyone has his own definatation of the
C. metonymy
word “boyfriend” what concern does the
statement refer to D. antonyms
4.2 Pragmatics
1. Which of the following is NOT a technique A. ASSERTIVE
used for cohesion? B. DECLARATIVE
A. pronouns C. COMMITMENT
B. adjectives
D. EXECUTIVE
C. determiners
5. What type of presupposition do we find in
D. conjunctions
‘They missed the bus again’?
2. A linguistic interaction is necessarily A. Structural presupposition
A. a social interaction B. Counter-factual presupposition
B. an internal interaction C. Lexical presupposition
C. an external interaction D. Non-factive presupposition
D. a psychological interaction
6. “I think you should start studying for BSL
3. are those kinds of speech acts that today”The sentence above is an example
speakers use to get someone else to do for
something.
A. Positive Face Saving Act
A. Commissives
B. Positive Face Threatening Act
B. Representatives
C. Negative Face Saving Act
C. Directives
D. Negative Face Threatening Act
D. none of above
7. do not say too little or too much
4. “REGIONAL AND DISTRICT ELECTIONS
WILL BE HELD NEXT YEAR” THE ABOVE A. maxim of quantity
STATEMENT BELONGS TO THE ACT B. maxim of quality

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C. maxim of relevance C. stress, intonation and emphasis in spo-

D. maxim of manner ken language
D. use of emoticons
8. ‘Do you have to stand in front of the TV?’
A. Question 14. The quantity assumption is about:
B. Indirect speech act A. giving enough information but not too
much
C. Speech act
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B. giving too much information
D. Direct speech act
C. giving too little information
9. The boy is handsome. Which is the presup-
position here? D. not giving information at all
A. Structural presupposition 15. The basic pattern ( Conversation Struc-

B. Lexical presupposition ture) is:
C. Existential presupposition A. I speak-they speak-you speak

D. Factive presupposition B. I speak-You speak-I speak
C. You speak-I listen
10. Define Borrowings
D. I speak-you silent
A. borrow items from other person
B. words imported from one language 16. Maxims
into another A. perform act by using language
C. using words briefly in one language
B. verbsdenote purely linguistic actions
and going back to original word
C. they perform their functions in a direct
D. none of above
and literal manner
11. The understanding of a text is incomplete D. principle guiding the conversational in-
with the absence of teractions of both speakers and hearers
A. literal meaning
17. ‘When I buy a new book, I always read the
B. context last page first.’
C. invisible meaning A. Anaphora
D. deixis B. Zero anaphora or ellipsis
12. Speech Act:‘Congratulations!’ C. Reinforcement
A. Directive D. Conversational implicature
B. Declarative
18. Which of the following is not a type of fe-
C. Commissive licity condition?
D. Expressive A. Speech act condition
13. What is prosody? B. Preparatory condition
A. computer-mediated communication C. Essencial condition
B. use of bold or italics D. none of above

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19. The utterance “Mr. John’s youngest C. EXECUTIVE

daughter is OK” presupposes:
D. STATEMENT

A. Mr. John has one daughter.
B. Mr. John has at least 3 daughters. 25. How many parts do the Preference struc-
tures have?
C. Mr. John has two daughters.
A. 1
D. Mr. John’s other daughters are not
beautiful. B. 2
C. 3
20. An utterance considered an action is
a/an: D. 4
A. locutionary act
26. “There are tigers in the kitchen” is which
B. illocutionary act sentence type (structure)?
C. perlocutionary act A. declarative
D. speech act B. interrogative
21. When the relationship between structure C. imperative
and function is indirect, it is called an D. none of above
speech act.
A. direct 27. Structural ambiguity occurs when
B. indirect A. the source of ambiguity is syntactic
C. specific B. the source of ambiguity is stylistic
D. straightforward C. the source of ambiguity is pragmatic
22. Which of the following is NOT an example D. none of above
of a typical discourse structure?
28. ” A man was looking at us. He then dis-
A. narratee appeared”the initial reference is often in-
B. list definite ( A man )The initial reference
C. narrative indefinite ( A MAN ) is called
D. question-answer A. Antecedent
B. anaphora
23. That’s a great album isn’t it?
C. context
A. Face threateneing act
D. co-text
B. person deixis
C. conversational maxims 29. You don’t need this to make an IMPLICA-
D. positive politeness strategy TURE
A. additional information
24. “I assure you that I am still in and with a
job” BELONGS TO THE ACT B. exact meaning
A. DECLARATIVE C. need inferences
B. COMPROMISIVO D. conclusion

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30. The term utterance interpretation which 35. speech acts that state what the
focuses on receiver of message .. speaker believes to be the case or not.
A. is not favored by those who take a A. Expressives
broadly cognitive approach B. Representatives
B. ignores social constrains on utterance C. Directives
production
D. Commissives
C. is a form of social view
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36. “Open the window” is which sentence
D. none of above type (structure)?
31. “Speakers are expected to be sincere, to A. declarative
be saying something that they believe is B. interrogative
true” is:
C. imperative
A. maxim of quality D. none of above
B. maxim of quantity
37. The third level of meaning is concerns
C. maxim of relevance with speaker’s intention.
D. maxim of manner A. diectic expression
B. meaning in in use
32. “Move out of the way!”-What kind of struc-
tural forms of direct speech acts? C. force of utterance
A. Declarative D. none of above
B. Interrogative 38. Which construction in English is a clear ex-
C. Imperative ample of structural presupposition?
A. WH-Questions
D. Statement
B. Subject-Verb Agreement
33. Fill the blank: is where words are C. Compound/Complex Sentence
omitted because the context makes it
clear what is meant. D. Conditional structure
A. adverbials 39. What is the inference?

B. anaphora A. The inferences made by the persons
and create a new idioms.
C. cataphora
B. The inferences made by teach many
D. ellipsis words.
34. When we mention it ( A, B or C ) the IFID C. The inferences made by listeners or
is clear readers in order to arrive at an interpre-
tation of the intended meaning.
A. Direct speech
D. none of above
B. Perlocutionary
40. Selecting the appropriate speech act
C. Performative verb
strategies and the linguistic forms for re-
D. none of above alizing it depends on

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A. the social status and the culture of the 46. Complete The next Phrase:PRAGMATICS
interlocutors IS

B. their age A. The study of speaker meaning
C. their social distance B. The study of the words
D. All of these C. The study of the Language
41. Classify the hedge:‘As you probably know, D. none of above
I am terrified with bugs.’
A. Quantity hedge 47. A judge says to a happy couple, “I now pro-
nounce you husband and wife.name the
B. Relation hedge
type of the implicit speech act of the ut-
C. Manner hedge terance
D. Quality hedge A. commisive
42. Pragmatics is the study of the choices you B. representative
make when you use , the reasons for
C. declaration
those choices and the effects that those
choices convey (David Crystal 2014). D. expressive
A. Choices
48. What is the cooperative principle?
B. Language
A. The idea that there are correct ways to
C. A word communicate
D. Structure
B. The incorrect ways to communicate
43. How might synonyms be a useful feature C. The general principle that people work
in discourse? together to communicate
A. they can help to avoid repetition D. none of above
B. they refer back to an earlier point
C. they omit words 49. LEXIS REVISION:which word class do ‘un-
der’, ‘behind’ and ‘before’ belong to?
D. they help to orientate the reader
A. determiners
44. “Speakers are assumed to be saying
something that is relevant to what has B. conjunctions
been said before” is: C. prepositions
A. maxim of quality D. pronouns
B. maxim of quantity
50. According to the Maxim of Quality
C. maxim of relevance
A. you should only say only what you be-
D. maxim of manner
lieve to be true.
45. A perlocution is B. you should be sincere and unambigu-
A. the effect on a hearer. ous.
B. the communicative intention. C. you should say enough, but not too
C. the linguistic form. much.

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51. How many types of felicity conditions? C. Turn

A. 1 D. Floor
B. 2
57. The effect of an utterance on an interlocu-
C. 3 tor; the listener’s reaction to the utter-
D. 5 ance:
52. A:It’s awfully cold in here B:oh, sorry, I’ll A. locutionary act
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close the windowWhich pair of adjacent B. illocutionary act
pairs does the above example belong to?
C. perlocutionary act
A. Question → answer
D. speech act
B. Complaint → excuse/remedy
C. Inform → Acknowledge 58. him, them, those are example of?
D. none of above A. Person deixis
53. words belong to CONVENTIONAL IMPLI- B. Deixis
CATURE C. Physical context
A. but D. spatial deixis.
B. still
C. even though 59. A stretch of speech preceded and fol-
lowed by silence or a change of speaker
D. Although is called
54. ‘’ A was was looking at us. He then disap- A. a sentence
peared”the subquent reference is definite
B. an utterance
or pronoun (he..)it is called
A. Anaphora C. discourse
B. Antecedent D. none of above
C. context 60. GENERALIZED CONVERSATIONAL IMPLI-

D. idea CATURE does not need
55. In a direct speech act, the interrogative A. meaning

sentence type functions as: B. fact
A. statement C. background knowledge
B. question D. special expertise
C. order or request
61. CHOOSE THE CORRECT PERFORMATIVE..
D. none of above
A. OPEN THE DOOR
56. Both speaker trying to speak at the same
time, it called: B. Implicit performative
A. Overlaps C. Explicit performative
B. Pause D. none of above

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62. a. Can I borrow your Shake- C. Positive faces and Negative faces.
speare?b.Yeah, it ‘s over there on the ta- D. Right faces and Wrong faces.
ble.the infered reference “ Shakespeare”

would be 68. is a research method for studying writ-
ten or spoken language in relation to its
A. book
social context.
B. person
A. Coherence
C. a writer B. Discourse analysis
D. place C. Cultural schemata
63. When you avoid ambiguity you are fulfill- D. Cross-cultural pragmatics
ing Grice’s maxim of
69. According to the preparatory condition
A. Quality
B. Quantity A. the hearer must be able to understand
C. Relation the locution.
D. Manner B. there must be prerequisites for a suc-
cesful act.
64. Which of the following is NOT a discourse C. the speaker must be sincere and will-
feature we would expect to see in sponta- ing to carry out the act.
neous conversations?
D. none of above
A. emoticons
B. openings and closings
egy when the speaker is making a re-
C. topic loops quest:“Hello friend, let me use your phone
D. topic shifts for a second.”
A. Negative politeness
65. Who coined the phrase ‘synthetic person-
alisation’? B. Positive politeness
A. Drew & Heritage C. Bald on record
B. Cameron D. none of above
C. Grice 71. Which of the following options is not part

of the three speech act?
D. Fairclough
A. illocutionary
66. The pragmatic component of an utterance
B. complaint
is its
C. perlocutionary
A. objective part
D. none of above
B. subjective part
72. Levels of meaning includes abstract
C. both
meaning-which can also be defined as
D. none of above
A. speaker’s intention
67. What type of faces exist? B. utterance meaning
A. Bad faces and good faces. C. dictionary meaning
B. Critical faces and Analytical faces. D. communicative purpose

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73. How many components does the speech B. question

events through? C. order or request
B. 3
C. 4 egy when the speaker is making a re-
D. 5 quest:“Let’s get out of here.”
A. Negative politeness
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74. Define Dialect
A. a systematic variety of a language spe- B. Positive politeness
cific or a particular group C. Bald on record
B. the linguistic system of a particular D. none of above
speaker (Oprah Winfrey, Jay Leno)
80. Below are the four types of sentence func-
C. the different styles or registers that tions, except
range from formal to informal situations
A. Command
D. none of above
B. Exclamative
75. The expression which is used to maintain C. Statement
reference to something or someone al-
D. Question
ready mentioned is called
A. Anaphoric reference 81. WHAT SPEECH ACT IS PRESENTED IN THE
FOLLOWING STATEMENT: “I assure you
B. discourse
that I will be back early, mommy”
C. co-text
A. STATEMENT
D. context
B. COMPROMISIVO
76. ” I am going to buy a present THERE “. C. EXECUTIVE
THERE is:
D. DECLARATIVE
A. Spacial deixis
82. to try to deliver our intended messages
B. Person deixis
successfully and smoothly in a coversa-
C. Temporal deixis tion, we NEED
D. none of above A. implicature
77. “I will join you THIS EVENING “. THIS B. deixis
EVENING is: C. cooperation
A. Person deixis D. pronoun
B. Temporal deixis 83. individual contextual knowledge triggered
C. Spacial deixis by a word
D. none of above A. implicature
78. In a direct speech act, the imperative func- B. schema

tions as: C. co-text
A. statement D. maxim of quality

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84. is the study of the relationships be- A. thing

tween linguistic forms and entities in the B. person
world; that is, how words literally connect

to things. C. place
A. Semantics D. writer
B. Syntax 90. means that what is said or written will
C. Pragmatics make sense in terms of their “normal ex-
perience” of things.
D. Regularity
A. Coherence
85. Choose the answer if you preferred ‘’ Isn’t B. Discourse analysis
that really great?’
C. Background knowledge
A. I don’t know
D. Schemata
B. Sure
C. I’d love to 91. Linguistic context is also called
D. Yes, it is A. Context
B. Speaker
86. “Stand up and leave the room now”The
sentence above is an example for C. Linguistic
A. Positive Face Saving Act D. Co-text
B. Positive Face Threatening Act 92. Discourse that surrounds a language unit
C. Negative Face Saving Act and helps to determine its interpretation
is called
D. Negative Face Threatening Act
A. linguistic context
87. PERU WILL ENTER A NEW STAGE OF RE- B. situational context
STRICTIONS TO AVOID MORE CONTAGES.
The speech act is: C. speech event
A. declarative D. none of above
B. executive 93. Pragmatics is NOT concerned with:
C. representative A. the use of language in social contexts
D. expressive B. the relations between signs and the
referents
88. “ is the assumption of the speaker to
claim that an entity does exist” C. he choice of language in social interac-
tion andthe effect of this choice on others
A. factive presupposition
B. existential presupposition D. none of above
C. counterfactual presupposition
94. One friend says to another, “I swear I
D. structural presupposition won’t see Martha again.”name the type
89. a. Where is the cheese sandwich sit- of the implicit speech act of the utterance
ting?b.He’s over there by the window.The
infered referent would be A. directive

4.2 Pragmatics 218
B. declarative 100. In many ways, pragmatics is the study of

C. expressive A. “invisible” meaning
D. commisive B. pragmatics
95. According to Grice (1975), any conversa- C. Deixis
tional contribution must fullfill the cooper- D. Context
ative principle, which includes ‘being rele-
101. Contextual meaning is also known as
vant’ as its maxim of
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A. abstract meaning
A. Quantity
B. force of utterance
B. Quality
C. utterance meaning
C. Relation
D. none of above
D. Manner
96. According to Leech (1983), Semantics and egy when the speaker is making a re-
Pragmatics quest:“Clean up this mess!.”
A. Oppose A. Negative politesness
B. Complement B. Possitive politeness
C. Interfere C. Bald on record
D. Presuppose D. none of above
97. Classify this type of politeness strat- 103. is the study of the relationships be-
egy when the speaker is making a re- tween linguistic forms, how they are ar-
quest:“Get out of here! I’m trying to ranged in sequence, and which sequences
study”. are well-formed.
A. Negative politeness A. Semantics
B. Positive politeness B. Syntax
C. Bald on record C. Regularity
D. none of above D. Pragmatics
98. ‘We will not do it again.’ 104. the idea that people work together to
A. Commissive communicate
B. Declarative A. cooperative principle
C. Directive B. deictic expression
D. Expressive C. face threatening act
D. embodied knowledge
99. Which is not true about the negative face
in the following? 105. the propositional base of an utterance is
A. the need to be independent its
B. the need not to be imposed on by oth- A. subjective part
ers. B. objective part
C. the need to be accepted C. both
D. the need to have freedom of action D. none of above

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106. The social function of what is said or the C. opt for

intention of the speaker is: D. modify

A. locutionary act
112. Pragmatics is NOT
B. illocutionary act
A. the study of contextual meaning
C. perlocutionary act
B. the study of the expression of relative
D. speech act
distance
107. What does Deixis need? C. the study of listener meaning
A. Immediate physical context. D. the study of how more gets communi-
B. A connection between words. cated than is said.
C. A verb. 113. FOUR elements should be fulfilled when
D. Immediate Indexation. having a good conversation, EXCEPT
108. How to do a dispreferred second part A. quality of the content
about an apology? B. be informative as possible
A. Oh C. using idioms
B. I’m not sure D. avoid ambiguity
C. What a pity
114. Choose the correct answer. What are
D. Well the types of Deixis to analyze sentences?
109. What are the types of Deixis? A. Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis.
A. Person, Spatial, Temporal Deixis. B. Context, Situation place, Location.
B. Connotative, Denotative Deixis. C. Spatial, Person, Analysis speech.
C. Simple, Complex, and Compound D. none of above
Deixis.
115. speech acts
D. Conversational and Speech Deixis.
A. principle guiding the conversational in-
110. In terms of regularity, what aspects are teractions of both speakers and hearers
implicit in the Pragmatics?
A. Social level and the meaning interpre- B. denote purely linguistic actions
tation.
C. perform act by using language
B. Culture, chummy, and no chummy
groups. D. probably the opposite of direct speech
acts
C. Social level, chummy, and no chummy
groups. 116. “You are so annoying”The sentence
D. none of above above is an example for
A. Positive Face Saving Act
111. we can our conversational implica-
ture B. Positive Face Threatening Act
A. cancel C. Negative Face Saving Act
B. choose D. Negative Face Threatening Act

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117. The term pragmatics was first intro- 123. What is INFERENCE?
duced by the philosopher
A. The concept of producing utterances
A. John Austin
B. The process of deriving implied mean-
B. Charles Morris
ings
C. Paul Grice
C. The process of using deixis
D. none of above
D. none of above
118. ‘I am not here now.’
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A. Anaphora 124. “Do you have milk?” is which sentence
B. Cataphora type (structure)?
C. Deictic projection A. declarative

D. Ellipsis B. interrogative
119. Actions performed via utterances are C. imperative
generally called
D. none of above
A. Speech acts
B. Felicity conditions 125. Can you show what kind of speech event
is an example below? John:Hey, Jim. How
C. IFIDs
is it going? Jim:Hello, John. I’m good.
D. Speech event And you? John:Pretty well. Thanks.
120. Face refers to that and social sense A. Greetings.
of self that everyone has and expects ev-
eryone else to recognize. B. Asking the time
A. emotion C. Requesting help
B. intellectual D. Apologizing
C. emotional
126. What is the correct meaning of the
D. psychological
‘maxim of quality’
121. “uh uh” “yeah” “mmm” provide feed-
A. Speaking the right amount
back to the current speaker that the mes-
sage is being received, these types of? B. Keeping what is being said relevant
A. Pause C. Speaking the truth
B. Overlaps D. Being clear and not ambiguous
C. Attributable
D. Backchannel signal 127. LEXIS REVISION:what sort of adjectives
are ‘biggest’, ‘smallest’ and ‘best’?
122. this, here, now
A. stative
A. temporal deixis
B. dynamic
B. person deixis
C. distal deixis C. comparatives
D. proximal deixis D. superlatives

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128. can be applied to any instance of 133. A buyer says to a seller, “I agree with
written or oral language, as well as non- your terms”name the type of the implicit
verbal aspects of communication such as speech act of the utterance

tone and gestures. A. declarative
A. Coherence B. directive
B. Discourse analysis C. expressive
C. Cultural schemata D. commisive
D. Cross-cultural pragmatics 134. “SHE wanted to borrow some money.”

SHE is:
129. For the following indirect speech acts of A. Person deixis
utterance”It’s obvious that Bill is going to
B. Spacial deixis
be late for his interview”name the type of
the implicit speech act of the utterance C. Temporal deixis
A. commisive D. none of above
B. declative 135. What conditions allows this expression

to be appropriate?:‘I sentence you six
C. representative months to prison’.
D. directive A. Reality
B. Felicity
130. The earth is flat. It is a/an
C. Informative
A. Expressive speech act
D. Cooperative
B. Representative speech ac
136. is a pre-existing knowledge structure
C. Declaration speech act involving event sequences.
D. none of above A. Schema
B. Frame
131. Which of the following is NOT a correct
maxim? C. Script
A. Manner D. Background knowledge
B. Quality 137. What was Paul Grice’s theory?
C. Quantity A. Conversational motives

B. Conversational manners
D. Order
C. Conversational maxims
132. Look at the sentence and analyze which D. none of above
group you belong to “ Mr. Bean is at the
cinema” 138. location to influence our interpretation
is?
A. Semantic
A. Physical context
B. References and Interference B. Linguistic context
C. Deixis C. Pragmatics
D. Pragmatics D. Person deixis

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139. The tendency to use negative politeness 144. A woman says to someone next to her at
forms, emphasizing the hearer’s right to the grocery store, “It’s going to be a very
freedom, can be seen as a windy day.”name the type of the implicit
A. Solidarity strategy speech act of the utterance
A. declarative
B. Face wants
B. representative
C. Politeness
C. expressive
D. Deference strategy
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D. directive
140. Sometimes, what we DON’T say is more
145. The two kinds of context are:
important that what we DO say. This is
known as A. Physical and deixis context
A. implying by omission B. Deixis and expression

C. Physical and linguistic context
B. intertextuality
D. Deixis and linguistic context
C. synthetic personalisation
D. irony 146. Can be defined as the right to speak, it
called:
141. When there is a direct relationship be- A. floor
tween a structure and a function, it is B. Turn
called as a speech act.
C. Turn-taking
A. direct
D. Local management system
B. polite
147. “find out, discover, know, realize, be
C. indirect aware of, regret, ..” are often considered
D. straightforward as indicators of
A. factive presupposition
142. “Speakers should be as informative as is
required, that they should give neither too B. lexical presupposition
little information nor too much” is: C. structural presupposition
A. maxim of quality D. non-factive presupposition
B. maxim of quantity 148. Which answer is not a semantic changes
C. maxim of relevance A. generalization
D. maxim of manner B. specialization
C. amelioration
143. Deixis refers to expressions which
D. cognate
A. are used to point to someone or some-
thing through language 149. The actual utterance and its literal mean-
B. mention someone or something in ing
speech or writing A. locutionary act
C. show a relation between a referent B. illocutionary act
and thought C. perlocutionary act
D. none of above D. speech act

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150. two speakers have in common, 155. What does ‘discourse’ refer to in the
language they’ll need to use to identify fa- study of language?
miliar things.

A. the vocabulary of a text
A. The more ; the more B. the structure, organisation and layout
B. The less ; the less of a text
C. The less ; the more C. the meaning behind the vocabulary of
a text
D. The more ; the less
D. the mode of a text
151. Name the underlined part:‘Let me just
156. The tendency to use positive politeness
tell you this about her:she is a very effi-
forms, emphasizing closeness between
cient worker’.
speaker and hearer, can be seen as a
A. Anaphora
A. Solidarity strategy
B. Deixis
B. Face wants
C. Cataphora C. Politeness
D. Presuppositon D. Deference strategy
152. The study of what speakers mean, or 157. refers to words in our language that
“speaker meaning, “ is called cannot be interpreted at all if we do not
A. Pragmatics know the context, especially the physical
context of the speaker.
B. Deixis
A. Presupposition
C. Context
B. Reference
D. Location
C. Deixis
153. “Speakers should be brief and orderly, D. Inference
and avoid obscurity and ambiguity” is:
158. The use of explicit linguistic devices to
A. maxim of quality signal relations between sentences and
B. maxim of quantity parts of texts is known as
C. maxim of relevance A. anaphora
D. maxim of manner B. cataphora
C. ellipsis
154. If we want to identify the sequence and
order of pragmatics. What should we D. cohesion
keep in mind? 159. Linguistic forms like proper nouns, def-
A. Deixis, References, and Enviroment. inite and definite noun phrase, and pro-
nouns are called
B. Speech, Temporal situation, and Con-
text. A. Reffering expression
C. Context, Situational place, and Enviro- B. phrases
ment C. idiom
D. none of above D. synonem

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160. How many types of the general function 166. In a direct speech act, the declarative
performed by speech acts sentence type functions as:
A. 3 A. statement
B. 4 B. question
C. 5 C. order or request
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161. demonstratives ‘there’, ‘those’ 167. Jane:‘Did you visit Rome and Flo-
rence?’Bill:‘I visited Florence.’
A. spatial deixis
A. generalized conversational implica-
B. person deixis ture, because you have to analyze all the
C. face threatening act context
D. negative face need B. explicature
C. anaphora
162. now, then, last week are examples of?
D. hedge
A. Pragmatics
168. guidelines for making a good conversa-
B. Temporal deixis
tion according to Grice
C. Deixis
A. cooperative principle
D. Spatial deixis. B. maxims
163. there, tomorrow C. cooperative & maxims
A. Paul Grice D. conversational implicature
B. proximal deixis 169. “Let’s meet on MONDAY .” MONDAY is:
C. negative politeness strategy A. Person deixis
D. distal deixis B. Spacial deixis
C. Temporal deixis
164. What is the semantic understanding of
‘close the door’? D. none of above
A. It is cold 170. when making a conversation, sometimes
B. I have something to tell you DEGREE OF CERTAINTY is included, why?
C. Shut the door A. to give a good example
D. I am very angry with you B. to make a focus
C. to strengthen the message
165. the idea of COOPERATION in a conversa-
D. to repeat the messages
tion means that
A. try not to confuse 171. Jack:What was his reason for leaving?
Kate:I don’t know, probably something
B. tell the truth
has happened to him.What type of presup-
C. be relevant position is included in the first utterance?
D. all true A. Existential

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B. Factive C. Politeness
C. Lexical D. none of above

D. Structural 177. Which is an example of negative polite-
172. A teenage boy says to another teenage ness strategies?
boy, “Go ahead-Make me!”name the type A. Apologies
of the implicit speech act of the utterance
B. Compliments
C. Nicknames
A. commisive
D. none of above
B. expressive
C. representative 178. What is the illocution of the follow-
ing statement?”Kids, the classroom is a
D. directive
mess!”
173. here, there, near are examples of? A. The speaker asserts that the room is
A. P erson deixis untidy.
B. Context B. The speaker wants the hearer to clean
up the room.
C. Physical context
C. The hearer cleans up the room.
D. Spatial deixis.
D. none of above
174. “May you find your own Frederick Went-
worth. “The sentence above is an exam- 179. The ideational function of the language
ple of p/s:Frederick Wentworth is a implies
character in the novel Persuasion by Jane A. Creating well-formed and appropriate
Austen. texts.
A. Anaphora B. Taking part in social interaction.
B. Cataphora C. Taking part in events.
C. Reference D. Representing thought and experience
D. Inference in a coherent way.
175. How many types of background knowl- 180. A parent says to her child, “I forbid
edge? you to leave your room.”name the implicit
speech act of the utterance.
A. 2
A. directive
B. 4
B. expressive
C. 3
C. representative
D. 5
D. declaration
176. , in an interaction, can then be de-
fined as the means employed to show 181. What studies Pragmatics?
awareness of another person’s face. A. It studies the use of language in con-
A. Interaction text.
B. Face wants B. It studies the meaning in context.

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C. It studies how meaning affects the A. Regularity

context. B. Syntax
D. none of above C. Semantics
182. When we are committing face-saving act, D. none of above
we would tend to sound to reduce the 187. The true meaning of implicature is
threats to someone’s face.
A. tell the exact message
A. polite
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B. additional information
B. shy
C. inference
C. rude
D. guessing
D. condescending
188. Fill the blank: of time and place es-
183. LEXIS REVISION:When making a noun tablish connections between one part of a
into a plural, should you use an apostro- text and another, and are frequent in nar-
phe? rative.
A. Always A. pronouns
B. Never B. determiners
C. Only with initialisms, e.g. DVD’s C. adverbials
D. Only when talking about decades, e.g. D. synonyms
the 1980’s 189. When the communicators share the
184. The manner assumption consists in: same assumption, knowledge, and expec-
tation, they are said to have established
A. criticizing people right from the get-go
A. deixis
B. saying things in a less straightforward
B. reference
way to sound more diplomatic
C. context
C. lying to people when something is not
right D. none of above
D. being proper 190. Determine the type of speech act of
the follwing statement:”Close the win-
185. “She is the epitome of sadness. Her eyes dow, please!”
glimpse in sorrow. Jane is the definition
A. representative
of loneliness. “The structure of the sen-
tence above is an example of B. expressive
A. Anaphora C. directive
B. Cataphora D. declaration
C. Reference 191. words or phrases surrounding a word

D. Inference A. schema
B. deixis
186. is concerned with the truth-
conditions of propositions expressed in C. co-text
sentences. D. conversational mazim

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192. What is NOT a mitigating device? C. Linguistic

A. Would D. Pragmatics

B. Should
198. What is the definition of pragmatics?
C. Please
A. The difference between what is said or
D. Could written and what is actually meant.
193. today, yesterday, tomorrow B. The difference between understand-
ing and social convention
A. temporal deixis
B. deictic categories C. The true meaning of language
C. positive face needs D. none of above
D. negative face needs 199. Which is not an example of a negative po-

liteness strategy?
194. Below are possible aspects that can be
considered as contexts except A. Come with us, Jezza!
A. weather B. Could I give you a hand with that?
B. place C. Would you mind lending me $8 please?
C. event
D. Sorry, I’m just going to squeeze behind
D. pronouns
you.
195. Choose the best option that is related to
the term inference. 200. Below are examples of deixis, except
A. Interpretation of the intended mean- A. him, his, he

ing. B. this, that, those
B. evident meaning C. now, tomorrow, next year
C. something that is explicit in the sen- D. teacher, pen, house.
tence
201. For the following indirect speech acts of
D. none of above
the utterance” I would appreciate it if you
196. Choose the correct answers about prag- could do the dishes”Name the type of the
matic: implicit speech act of the utterance .
A. studies how people make sense of A. directive
each other linguistically B. expressive
B. studies how people learn the language C. commissive
D. representative
C. studies how people write
D. none of above 202. be clear and avoid ambiguity
A. maxim of quantity
197. Pointing to something in verbal commu-
nication is? B. maxim of quality
A. Deixis C. maxim of relevance
B. Context D. maxim of manner

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203. For the following indirect speech acts of A. lexical presupposition

the utterance”You’re welcome to come to B. structural presupposition
my party next week”name the type of the
implicit speech act of the utterance C. non-factive presupposition
A. representative D. counterfactual presupposition
B. directive 208. Classify this type of politeness strat-
C. commisive egy when the speaker is making a re-
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quest:“Would you mind making lasagna
D. expressive
tonight?”
204. People who are not considerate of A. Positive politeness
face would sound rude and impolite as
they do not feel the need to be included. B. Negative politeness
A. positive C. bald on record
B. negative D. none of above
C. assertive 209. Define Etymology

D. possessive A. a core concept in studying semantic
change
205. The set of words used to interpret the
meaning of a specific words is? B. changes in the sense of a word
A. Temporal deixis. C. changes in word order
B. co-text or linguistic context D. none of above
C. location 210. ‘Cool before serving.’
D. Deixis A. Co-text
206. is the study of the relationships be- B. Cataphora
tween linguistic forms and the users of C. Anaphora
those forms.
D. Ellipsis
A. Semantics
B. Regularity 211. Another word for Deixis is
C. Pragmatics A. Deictic
D. Syntax B. Deixtal
207. “When did you steal her money?The pre- C. Deixation

supposition “ You stole her money” is D. Depictic

5. Historical Linguistics
5.1 Historical Linguistics

1. A language family is a group of languages 4. Italic or Latin descendants include all the
following languages except
A. that were developed at the same time
A. French
B. that are derived from the same ances-
tral language B. Portuguese
C. that are descendants of Romance lan- C. Scots Gaelic

guages D. Catalan
D. that are derived from dead languages 5. Changes in words of the language that in-
cludes changes in the meaning of words,
2. Words in different languages that are re- the addition of new words, and analogy
lated to each other because they derive are known as
from a common mother language
A. phonological
A. creoles
B. syntactic
B. collates
C. morphological
C. cognates D. etymological
D. collatives
6. “Proto-language” means
3. Right after 1066 English language re- A. before writing system was developed
ceived an enormous amount of vocabulary
B. ancestral or parent language
from
C. the descendant of a language
A. Anglo-Saxon language
D. the historical prototype of a dead lan-
B. Norse language guage
C. Norman French
7. In this type of sequential change, one seg-
D. Old German ment is made less like another segment

5.1 Historical Linguistics 230
in its environment like for example, the to different consonants in daughter lan-
nm will be modified to lm in another languages
guage. A. wave reconstruction
A. dissimilation B. Grimm’s law or first Germanic sound
B. assimilation shift
C. metathesis C. Great vowel shift
D. epenthesis D. phonological anamoly
NARAYAN CHANGDER
8. Modern English (about 1500 C.E.) starts 13. Diachronic linguistics means
with the A. the study of language at a given point
A. Dark Aages in time
B. the study of language through time
B. Renaissance
C. the study of language dealing with
C. Norman invasion of English
time
D. Victorian Era
D. the study of language as a metaphor
9. The family tree model of language as- for time
sumes a genetic relationship between lan- 14. Synchronic linguistics is the study of a lan-
guages guage
A. that derived from the same ancestral A. at a given point in time
language
B. in a relation with its mother languages
B. that look similar
C. that are not related through cognates C. that is extinct
D. that developed in the same area D. as spoken by proto-indo-europeans
10. The insertion of a consonant or vowel into 15. English belongs to what family group?
a particular environment A. Indo-Iranian
A. metathesis B. Italic
B. epenthesis C. Hellenic
C. assimilation D. Germanic
D. dissimilation
16. Latin languages are also called
11. The first person to formally describe the A. Romantic languages
similarities among a number of languages B. dead languages
A. August Schleichter C. Romance languages
B. Johannes Schmidt D. Roman languages
C. Sir William Jones
17. Balto-Slavic language group includes all of
D. Jakob Grimm the following except
12. A systematic phonological change from A. Lithuanian

certain Proto-Indo-European consonants B. Polish

5.2 Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change 231
C. Ukrainian 22. What is an example of a syntactic change

D. Romanian that occurred as Old English changed to
Modern English?

18. This is the process used to establish a pos-
A. loss of case or inflectional endings
sible FAMILY CONNECTION between dif-
ferent languages involved. B. introduction of modals
A. comparative reconstruction C. omission of articles
B. philology D. appearance of declensions
C. cognates
23. The phenomenon by which permanent al-
D. historical linguistics
terations are made in the features and the
19. Filipino language is part of what language use of a language over time.
family? A. cognate
A. Afro-Asiatic
B. language change
B. Austronesian
C. language contact
C. Austroasiatic
D. comparative reconstruction
D. Dravidian
20. In this type of semantic change, the mean- 24. “Punch” is a borrowed lexical word from
ing of the word becomes more positive or what language?
favorable. A. German
A. broadening B. Hindi
B. narrowing C. Dutch
C. amelioration
D. Italian
D. pejoration
25. Changes in the rules for structures larger
21. “Mafia” is a borrowed lexical word from
than words is known as
what language?
A. Dutch A. phonetic changes
B. Italian B. morphological changes

C. Hindi C. syntactic changes
D. Spanish D. sociocultural changes
5.2 Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change

1. What is pejoration? 2. Semantic change:ameiloration is
A. Words lose their force A. words acquires a more negative mean-
B. Words develop a pleasant meaning ing
C. Words develop an unpleasant meaning B. words acquires a more positive mean-

ing
D. Words develop multiple meanings C. words acquires a broader meaning

D. none of above 9. Ancient Egypt is believed to be one of the

first cradles of civilisation.
3. Silly originally meant blessed
A. semantic widening
A. Amelioration
B. generalisation
B. Metaphor C. broadening
C. Pejoration D. all the above
D. Euphemism
NARAYAN CHANGDER
10. The Modern English word holiday used
4. You cannot use an alibi for being late-you to have a more narrowed meaning-a holy
should have left home earlier. day. Therefore, the word has undegone
the semantic change of
A. metaphor
A. semantic widening
B. metonymy
B. semantic narrowing
C. litotes
C. metaphor
D. semantic widening
D. metonymy
5. The word “marshall” is an example of 11. What is weakening?
A. Amelioration A. The force of words diminish over time
B. Degeneration B. The force of words increase over time
C. Extension
D. Narrowing C. Words develop multiple meanings
D. The meaning of a word narrows over
6. He isn’t dissatisfied at all with the offer. time
A. Litotes
12. An example of class-changing prefixation
B. degeneratione is
C. elevation A. immoral
D. semantic narrowing B. indefinite
C. bewitch
7. An example of unnecessary borrowing is
D. foreman
A. machine
B. blitz-krieg 13. Descriptivism is
A. Not being pedantic
C. hoi polli
B. Accepting change
D. pianissimo
C. Seeing worth in all varieties of lan-
8. The sandwich she made was not inedible. guage
A. hyperbole D. Wanting clearer rules
B. degeneration 14. “That student is bright”
C. elevation A. Metaphor
D. litotes B. Ameiloration

C. Euphemism 20. Semantic change:euphemism means

D. Polysemy A. an impolite way of referring to a topic

B. a polite way of referring to a topic
15. What is Amelioration?
C. a metaphor
A. Words develop a pleasant meaning
D. none of above
B. Words develop an unpleasant meaning
21. Terrific originally meant causing terror.
A. Pejoration
C. The word loses force
B. Polysemy
D. A word becomes more specific
C. Euphemism
16. Lexical change:compounding is.. D. Amelioration
A. taking parts of words to make new 22. The nurse elevated the foot of the bed.
ones
A. litotes
B. putting whole words together to make
a new one B. degeneration
C. metonymy
C. taking a word from another country
D. hyperbole
D. none of above
23. Semantic change:narrowing
17. An example of a neoclassical word half En- A. meaning becomes more general
glish half neoclassical
B. meaning becomes more specific
A. Bigamy
C. meaning becomes more positive
B. microwave
D. none of above
C. ballute
24. She ate a mountain of pop corn.
D. cashflow
A. litote
18. I am awfully sorry. B. degeneration
A. elevation C. polysemy
B. degeneration D. none of the above
C. litotes 25. Lexical change:clipping

D. hyperbole A. when words are made longer
B. when words are made shorter
19. I have four hungry mouths to feed for the
C. when words are blended together
weekend.
D. none of above
A. litotes
B. semantic widening 26. The head of the company refused to talk
about the salary increase with the employ-
C. synecdoche ees.
D. hyperbole A. metaphor

B. metonymy the word

C. semantic narrowing A. pianissimo
D. semantic widenings B. tangelo
27. Her tears were river flowing down her C. Blitz krieg
cheeks. D. washer
A. metonymy
B. synecdoche 29. I am starving.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. metaphor A. litotes
D. litotes B. hyperbole
C. degeneration
28. Some words are incorporated into English
with little or no change, a case in point is D. elevation

6. Sociolinguistics
6.1 Linguistic Variability

1. It is the actual production of an abstract 4. It refers to changes in the language re-
representation. alised over chronological time.
A. Reallocation A. Synchronic variation
B. Variable B. Diachronic variation
C. Variant C. Linguistic variation
2. The idea that some variants alternate 5. It refers to the differences and variation
with each other without any reliable con- that is measured between different speak-
straints on their occurrence in a particular ers (individuals or social groups)
context by particular speakers. A. Interspeaker variation
A. Constrain/Constraints B. Intraspeaker variation
B. Free variation C. Free variation
C. Determinism D. none of above
D. none of above 6. It refers to the reassignment of reanaly-
sis of forms in contact in a systematic way-
3. It refers to the differences in the way a
based on regular linguistics principles.
single person speaks at different times,
or with different interlocutors, or even A. Reallocation
within a sentence. B. Intermediate forms
A. Interspeaker variation C. Language change
B. Intraspeaker variation D. none of above
C. Free variation
7. What is NOT a linguistic feature of British
D. none of above English

6.1 Linguistic Variability 236
A. The use of maize instead of corn B. The relationship between conversa-

B. the pronunciation of the word ‘class’ tion participants
as /kla:s/ C. Speaker’s hometown
C. The use of flat instead of apartment D. The medium of communication
D. The pronunciation of [r] after a vowel 13. Which of the following is NOT users ‘ so-
8. It refers to new forms emerging follow- cial characteristics?
ing contact between closely related vari- A. Social classes
NARAYAN CHANGDER
eties that fall in between the various input
B. Situations
forms.
C. Ages
A. Reallocation
D. Genders
B. Intermediate forms
C. Linguistic change 14. It is the study of linguistic variation in re-
lation to speakers’ participation or mem-
D. none of above
bership in social groups, or in relation to
9. Which of the following is considered dif- other non-linguistic factors.
ferent languages A. Regional dialectology
A. Thai VS Lao B. Social dialectology
B. Mandarin VS Cantonese C. National dialectology
C. Thai VS Kham Meuang D. none of above
D. Isan Thai VS Southern Thai
15. The idea that there is a strong causal re-
10. Which is NOT a prominent linguistic fea- lationship between two factors that may
ture of women’s dialect? determine the use of a particular variant.
A. Rising intonations on declarative sen- A. Constrain/Constraints
tences B. Free variation
B. Strong swear words C. Determinism
C. Hypercorrected grammar D. none of above
D. Precise color terms
16. It is an abstract representation of the
11. A linguistic feature which is mostly pre- source of variation.
ferred by one particular gender of speak- A. Variant
ers is known as
B. Variable
A. gender-exclusive feature
C. Reallocation
B. gender-preferential feature
D. none of above
C. gender-excluded feature
D. gender-referential feature 17. If the distribution of variants is neither
random nor free, but shows system-
12. Which of the following is NOT a situational atic correlations with independent factors,
characteristic of language use? this is called:
A. Formality A. Constrain/Constraints

6.1 Linguistic Variability 237
B. Free variation 23. It is a linguistic feature that is widely

C. Determinism recognised and is very often the subject
of dialect performances and imperson-

D. none of above ations.
18. It is a linguistic variable which shows lim- A. Stereotype
ited or no style-shifting. It is stratified B. Marker
principally between groups.
C. Indicator
A. Stereotype
D. none of above
B. Marker
C. Indicator 24. Examples of syntactic variation include
D. none of above A. drinkin’ VS drinking
19. It is a variety of a language determined B. I killed a snake VS A snake was killed
normally by geographical and/or social by me.
factors.
C. going to VS gonna
A. Register
D. extroverted VS friendly
B. Dialect
C. Belief 25. Language variation according to the situa-
tions is called
D. Ideology
A. register
20. It is the study of language in social con-
B. dialect
texts.
A. Pragmatics C. lingua franca
B. Semantics D. pidgin
C. Sociolinguistics 26. It refers to language variation occurring

D. Psycholinguistics right now.
A. Synchronic variation
21. Examples of lexical variation include
A. drinkin’ VS drinking B. Diachronic variation
B. I killed a snake VS A snake was killed C. Linguistic variation

by me. D. none of above
C. going to VS gonna
27. When a language is used as a medium of
D. extroverted VS friendly
communication between speakers of dif-
22. Language can be varied in terms of ferent languages, it is known as a
A. pronunciation A. Foreign language
B. vocabulary B. Lingua franca

C. grammar C. Second language
D. all of the above D. Target language

6.2 Language Contact 238
28. It is a variable that speakers are less 29. It shows the distribution of different
aware of-show some subconscious forms-pronunciation or sentence patterns
awareness of it, but which shows con- as you move across physical spaces.
sistent style effects.
A. Regional dialectology
A. Stereotype
B. National dialectology
B. Marker
C. Indicator C. Social dialectology
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6.2 Language Contact

1. Which of the following linguistic features D. Vikings
can be borrowed?
4. Which lg does ukulele derive from?
A. Sounds
A. Hawaiian
B. Personal pronouns
B. French
C. Suffixes
C. Ethiopian
D. All of the above
D. Czech
2. The combination of letters sk-or sc-at the
beginning of a word in modern English is 5. Which of the following choices is NOT an
also very often an indicator that a word is example of ‘cultural borrowing’?
A. Scandinavian borrowing A. Kebab
B. French borrowing B. Phat Thai
C. Latin borrowing C. Ramen
D. none of above D. Bye-bye
3. Which of these groups DIDN’T give En- 6. Compared to pidgins, creole languages
glish loanwords through the 16th cen- are
tury? A. more grammatically complex
A. Indians B. used in wider situations
B. French Normans C. spoken at home
C. Romans D. all of the above
6.3 Sociolinguistic
1. Function (Referential) indicates tion and indicates how someone feels
A. How well you know somebody about the topic.
D. social ranking
B. the use of facts, statistics, directions,
etc. 2. The functional scale is related to:
C. the emotional content of communica- A. The purpose or topic of interaction

6.3 Sociolinguistic 239
B. the participants 8. How many sections are there in Janet

C. The place of interaction Holmes’ An Introduction to Sociolinguis-
tics?

D. none of above
A. 1
3. Which of these languages was revi- B. 2
talised?
C. 3
A. Latin
D. 4
B. Greek
C. Romansh 9. What happen to lowest social class on
their pronunciation?
D. Hebrew
A. Their pronunciation is perfect
4. Domains of language use draw from these B. Using [d] in the middle of words like
social factors except for “matter”
A. Participants C. They find the difficulty to pronunce “r”
B. Topic
C. Function D. They can not speak English
D. Setting 10. Sociolinguistics is related to the
5. The ability to use lexical items and the A. pragmatic competence
rules constraining morphology, sentence B. linguistic competence
structure and sound system.
C. discourse competence
A. Grammatical competence
D. none of above
B. Strategic competence
C. Generative Grammar 11. The Philippines belong to this circle due to
its direct influence from its colonizers who
D. none of above were native speakers of English.
6. What do you call a word/phrase or pronun- A. Outer Circle
ciation that distinguishes people of one B. Inner Circle
group from another?
C. Expanding Circle
A. shibboleth
D. none of above
B. allophone
C. suffix 12. One of the characteristics of language is
Arbitrary, which means?
D. none of above
A. Regular
7. What is the term for the application of Vy- B. communication tool
gotsky’s theory that is used to improve a
student’s ability to learn from the text? C. where like
A. Sociolinguistics Theory D. Force
B. Social Learning Theory 13. Language choice is determined by

C. Reciprocal Teaching A. Social Dimensions
D. Reciprocity B. Social Factors

C. Social Distance 19. RP (Received Pronunciation) is an exam-

D. Social Status ple of
A. a social accent
14. One of the types of sound that is the object
of William Labov’s study is? B. a social dialect
A. /r/ C. a register
B. /a/ D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. /p/ 20. It is a branch of Linguistics that studies
D. /U/ how languages are related to society.
A. Sociolinguistics
15. “a switch of language varieties at the
sentence boundary or between the sen- B. Phycholinguitcis
tences”. C. Sociology of Language
A. Tag switching or extra sentential
D. none of above
B. Intrasentential code-switching
21. Three important features of Diglossia are
C. Intersentential code-switching
D. none of above
A. Two varieties used, one high and one
16. Indicate WHICH of the following pairs re- low
flect the Mesolect Creole? B. The high variety is never used in every-
A. Almost, Palm day conversation
B. Aulmos, Hand-middle C. Each variety is used for a distinct func-
tion
C. Aalmos, An-midl
D. All of the above
D. Liklmous, Ang-migl
22. These are the linguistic features of Ver-
17. It is a technical language with a distinct
nacular language, except
vocabulary that is used by a particular
group or profession. A. vocabulary
A. Vernacular B. grammar
B. Idiolect C. articulation
C. Jargon D. pronunciation
D. none of above
23. It is a variation of a language character-
18. *It is the variety of language spoken by ized as being subordinate to the national
peopleliving in an area. language.
A. sociolect A. Dialect
B. idiolect B. Foreign language
C. regional dialect C. Vernacular

24. The variety of language that is unique to C. None

an individual is called? D. Both

A. Dialect
30. These are the positive attitudes of speech
B. Idiocy divergence, except
C. Sociologist A. To elicit help
D. Regional Dialect B. To distinguish the speakers from their
25. Learner language that contains influences addressees
from the first language and examples of C. To enhance the celebrities’ public ap-
target-like features. peal
A. Interlanguage D. To add to someone’s appeal
B. Intake 31. Sociolinguists use the term variety to re-
C. Input fer to
D. none of above A. a set of linguistic forms used under
specific social circumstances
26. select the type of code-switching ob-
served in the following sentence:Creo que B. a scale related to the purpose of a con-
ya terminaste, right? versation
A. Intrasentential code-switching C. the setting of the conversation
B. Tag switching or extrasentential D. none of above
C. Intersentential code-switching 32. Language variety distinguished by fea-

D. none of above tures of linguistic structure:grammar
(specifically morphology and syntax) and
27. When Maudy Ayunda interviewed Barack vocabulary
Obama, she adopted the same sort of vo- A. dialect
cabulary from Obama. In this situation,
she was converging her speech B. accent
A. Downwards C. pidgin
B. Backwards D. none of above
C. Forwards 33. It is a language that is adopted as a com-

D. Upwards mon language among speakers whose na-
tive languages are different.
28. This is one social dimension: A. Lingo
A. Social Distance B. Lingua franca
B. a science C. Substandard language
C. a type of variety D. none of above
D. none of above
34. Many factors may be relevant to people’s
29. An example of variety is: relative social status, except?
A. Ramal Norwegian local dialect A. Gender
B. Bokmal Norwegian standard dialect B. Age

C. Tribe 40. the dialect of an individual person at one

D. People work together time
A. standard dialect
35. Language variety distinguished by pronun-
ciation is called B. sociolect
A. dialect C. idiolect
B. accent D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. pidgin
41. Originate among social groups and are re-
D. none of above lated to a variety of factors, the principal
36. His published work, “Languages in Con- ones being age, gender, education, social
tact”, presented a systematic framework class, and race/ethnicity.
for categorizing mutual influence and mix- A. Dialect
ing between languages
B. Regional Dialect
A. Basil Bernstein
C. Social Dialect
B. Uriel Weinreich
D. Ethnic Dialect
C. Einar Haugen
D. John L. Fischer 42. Which family of languages do Romanian,
Catalan and Romansh belong to?
37. What is main idea of Age of Addressee?
A. Germanic languages
A. People talk to each other their speech
more similar B. Romance languages
B. Talk politely C. Celtic languages
C. Use different style in addressing peo- D. Slavic languages
ple
D. People use vernacular forms to speak 43. The ability to interpret an utterance for its
social meaning.
38. This is considered as the ancestor lan- A. Sociolinguistic competence
guage.
B. Communicative competence
A. Mother Tongue
C. Grammatical competence
B. Protolanguage
C. Standard Language D. none of above
D. none of above 44. . . . . pronounciation is very sensitive
marker of class and of style in new york.
39. The part of the input that is attended to
Overall, the higher your social class you
and made available to the developing lin-
belong to, the more you pronounce.
guistic system.
A. Intake A. America
B. Interlanguage B. Post-volcanic
C. Generative Grammar C. English
D. none of above D. Africa

45. To what does the term “lingua franca” re- 50. A language variety that has an influence
fer? from the native English speaking coloniz-
ers.

A. Speaking French
A. Global English
B. A shared language primarily used for
business, education or political reasons. B. Foreign Language Variety
C. Speaking bluntly or directly C. Second language Variety
D. A dialect spoken in the Franconian re- D. none of above
gion of Germany
51. The better we know someone, the more
46. I have a plan for dinner with friends. casual and related the . . . . is used by
These sentences include? them.
A. Code Switch A. speech style
B. Code Mixing B. language
C. diglosia C. variety
D. Language Variations D. intonation
47. The basis for the distinctions between the 52. It is an act of saying something.
styles was the amount of attention people
A. Speech Act
were paying to their
B. Locutionary Act
A. Social class
C. Illocutionary Act
B. Reading Reference
D. Perlocutionary Act
C. Age
D. Speech 53. An English that is formally taught in
schools, used in business transactions,
48. Written and/or spoken language to which communications and news media and lit-
the learner is exposed. erature.
A. Intake A. Continental English
B. Input B. Standard English
C. Interlanguage C. Diglossia
49. Many factors may contribute in determin- 54. It is the variety of a language used by
ing the degree of social distance. What government, media communication, and
are they? taughtin schools or universities.
A. age, gender, social roles A. idiolect
B. food, hobby, background B. standard dialect
C. adresse, home, family C. sociolect
D. place of work, race, culture D. regional dialect

55. The control of the various styles of better- B. aulmos, hand-middle

educated people is C. aalmos, an-midl
A. Worse D. likmous, ang-migl
B. Weaker
61. Reinforcement is the key-term of?
C. Greater
A. Behaviorism
D. Grimmer
B. Innateness
NARAYAN CHANGDER
56. What does ‘sociolinguistic competence’ C. Social Interaction theorist
mean? D. Cognitive theorist
A. according to speak clearly
62. Changing from one language or dialect to
B. ability to behave according to social another according to the context in which
norms one is speaking is known as
C. ability to use language appropriately A. Syntax
D. ability to act efficiently B. Code switching
57. Speech is a social activity in a sense that C. ethnosemantics
writing is not D. creolization
A. yes 63. A law court is a formal setting where the
B. No social roles of participants override their
C. to some extent personal relationship in determining the
appropriate
D. none of above
A. Context
58. Using more than one language, either by B. Class
an individual or a community of speakers
C. Linguistic form
A. multilingualism
D. Dialect
B. inference
64. What is the one word name coined by Ma-
C. standardization
jewicz which refers to dialect, subdialect,
D. none of above dialect cluster and langauge?
59. . . . . is behavior may be perceived as pa- A. ethnolects
tronishing and integrating, as sycophantic, B. phylum
or even as evidence that the speaker mak- C. branch
ing fun of others.
D. isolate
A. over-superior
65. He founded the major variation theory
B. fly high
journal entitled “Language, Variation, and
C. mental-ill Change”
D. over-convergent A. Uriel Weinreich
60. Indicate WHICH of the following pairs re- B. William Labov
flect the Acrolect. C. Dell Hymes
A. Almost, palm D. Einar Haugen

66. The better know someone, the more ca- 71. Research that showed that certain mor-
sual and related the . . . . will use to phemes in the English language were ac-
them. quired by all children in the same order.

A. speech style A. Generative Grammars
B. language B. Morpheme Acquisition Studies
C. variety C. Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
D. intonation D. none of above
67. The different . . . . clearly influence the 72. What do you call the people who share a
language used even though the message set of linguistic norms and expectations
in each letter is very similar. regarding the use of language
A. background A. Speech community
B. culture B. Bilinguals
C. variety C. Language in contact
D. addresses D. none of above
68. Changes in the language (for example, dif- 73. The alternation of two languages within
ference pronunciation and word choices) a single discourse, sentence, or con-
associated with certain geographical ar- stituent.
eas.
A. Code-switching
A. Geographical variation
B. Domain theory
B. Sociolinguistic variation
C. Code-mixing
C. Strategic competence
D. none of above
D. none of above
74. Pidgin refers to
69. What do you call the phenomenon of bilin-
A. people who speak multiple dialects
gual speakers switching from one lan-
guage to the other in the same conversa- B. a rudimentary language used primarily
tion? for business/trade interactions
A. Code-switching C. a language evolved from a mixed lan-
guage, with fully developed vocabulary
B. Creolisation
and grammar
C. Multilingualism
D. none of above
D. none of above
75. variations of language relating to the lan-
70. The register of a language can be: guage used for a particular field, called?
A. Formal or informal A. Dialect
B. Correct or incorrect B. Register
C. Polite or rude C. Sociologist
D. none of above D. Language Variations

76. Related to the choices a speaker makes 81. What is the metalinguistic function of lan-
when selecting the forms necessary to guage according to Jakobson?
convey a message that is appropriate in
A. maintaining contact
a given context.
B. referring to itself (i.e. language)
A. Grammatical competence
C. reflecting the states of mind of the
B. Sociolinguistic variation
speaker
C. Geographical variation
D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. none of above
82. High varieties of language choice are used
77. What is a dialect? in these situations except for
A. It is the variation of the languuage still A. Not codified
being the same language
B. Technical and formal terms
B. it is the usage of a language given by
C. Used for official, governmental, and
each individual
formal situations
C. it is the phonological varietion of la lan-
D. Learned at school
guage
D. none of above 83. The language feature that characterizes
human language, because it is only hu-
78. Sociolinguistics studies mans the ones who have the ability to lie
is:
A. The language as a human faculty
A. Total Feedback
B. The branches of linguistics
B. Learnability
C. The relationship between language
and society C. Duality
D. none of above D. Prevarication
79. Two or more languages or varieties inter- 84. “Sociolinguistics” was first constructed in
acting and influencing each other refers what year?
to:
A. 1930
A. bilingualism
B. 1952
B. inference
C. 1939
C. language contact
D. 1960
D. none of above
85. Refers to internal grammars that allow
80. How many social dimensions discussed by speakers to generate an infinite number
Holmes? of original, yet grammatical, sentences.
A. 1 A. Generative Grammar
B. 2 B. Interlanguage
C. 3 C. Grammatical competence

86. Marie already has the whole house clean. 91. Language variety that uses very informal
A. Tag switching or extra sentential in-group vocabulary that excludes non-
members

B. Intrasentential code-switching
A. jargon
C. Intersentential code-switching
B. register
D. none of above
C. slang
87. A pidgin is born because of a need D. none of above
A. True 92. Using language to control the behavior of
B. False. A pidgin is born because it has others or getting them to do what we want
been spoken by many generations them to do?
C. False. A pidgin is born after a creole is A. Instrumental Function of Language
born B. Regulatory Function of Language
D. none of above C. Personal Function of Language
88. “The better you know someone, the more D. none of above
casual and relaxed the speech style you
93. Robin Tolmach Lakoff is famous for
will use to them.” This sentence belongs
to? A. Grammar rules
A. Speech Convergence B. Politeness Principles
B. Register C. Applied Linguistics Principles
C. Addressee as an influence on style D. Language Learning Principles
D. Standard and Vernacular forms 94. In Kachru’s model, these group consider
English as a foreign language. English is
89. The process when people talk each other not spoken by a significant number of peo-
and their speech often becomes more simple in their countries.
ilar is known as . . . .
A. Outer Circle
A. speech accomodation
B. Inner Circle
B. speech divergence
C. Expanding Circle
C. stylisation
D. none of above
D. downward divergence
95. *the language of profession.
90. three major functions of code-switching.
A. sociolect
These functions are
B. dialect
A. The linguistic, the cultural and the
phonological. C. standard dialect
B. The social, the syntactic and morpho- D. register
logical.
96. What do you call the ability to use of more
C. The social, the linguistic and the psy- than one language, either by an individual
chological. or a community of speakers?
D. none of above A. language in contact

B. creole 102. it is the process whereby a speech com-

munity shifts to a different language, usu-
C. multilingualism
ally over an extended period of time
D. none of above
A. language change
97. Bilingual speakers switching from one lan- B. language shift
guage to the other in the same discourse C. code-switching
A. creole D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. code-switching 103. The metaphorical code-switching kind
C. diglossia of multi-voiced discourse has been de-
scribed as . . . .
D. none of above
A. stylisation
98. differences resulting from change over a B. metaphrigamy
period of time C. dialects
A. Linguistic geography D. downward convergence
B. Diachronic variation 104. Macrolinguistics?
C. Synchronic variation A. Syntax
D. none of above B. Applied linguistics
C. Morphology
99. Who is closely related to the term ‘commu-
nicative competence’? D. Pragmatics
A. Joshua A. Fishman 105. What date is it today?

B. Robin Tolmach Lakoff A. 20.11.2019
B. 21.11.2018
C. Janet Holmes
C. 21.12.2019
D. Dell Hathaway Hymes
D. 21.11.2019
100. What do you call a person who
106. It is an example of the effect of contex-
speaks/writes in only one language?
tual factors on linguistics behaviour . . .
A. Monolingual .
B. Pidgin A. Lingua franca
C. Idiolect B. Polyglossia
C. Diglosia
D. none of above
D. Social accent
101. A particular form of a language which is
107. What are social varieties
peculiar to a specific region
A. The types of languages
A. social dialect
B. refers to the different ways speakers
B. diglossia use the language.
C. regional dialect C. The varieties of dialect
D. none of above D. Different ways to accent

108. Formal and informal style differs in 113. The way a speaker uses language dif-
ferently in different circumstances is the
A. the choice of phonology, vocabulary
meaning of

and syntax
A. Register
B. vocabulary only
B. Dialect
C. pronunciation only
C. Social class
D. none of above D. Speech act
109. An example of a language which has 114. Social Factors are made up of
stylistic levels indicating politeness is A. participants, topics, functions
A. Korean B. participants and setting
B. French C. topic and function
C. English D. participants, setting, topic, and func-
tion
D. Indonesian
115. differences in language form found in dif-
110. The use of two or more languages by ferent places at the same time
putting in/inserting linguistic elements in A. Prothesis
one language into other language consis-
B. Dialect boundary
tently.
C. Synchronic variation
A. Code Mixing
D. none of above
B. Code Switching
116. It is an informal nonstandard English
C. Diglossia which is a product of a group’s creativity
D. none of above that identifies them as a group.
A. Slang
111. Formality scale is one of the social di-
B. Dialect
mensions used in socilinguistics analysis.
It is related to C. Language Variety
A. participant relationships D. none of above
B. the setting or type of interaction 117. The ability to communicate effectively.
C. purpose of interaction A. Grammatical competence

B. Sociolinguistic competence
D. topic of interaction
C. Communicative competence
112. It deals with the relation of language and D. none of above
society in terms of language structure and
its functions in communication 118. it is a language which has no native
speakers.
A. Sociocultural Theory
A. Pidgin
B. Sociopolitical Theory B. A vernacular language
C. Sociolinguistics Theory C. Lingua franca
D. none of above D. Creole

119. A person who speaks three languages 123. Being able to speak or write in only one
fluently is most properly referred to by language is called
which of these terms? A. diglossia
A. Multilingual B. monolingualism
B. Extralingual
C. pidgin
C. Magnalingual
D. none of above
D. Bilingual
NARAYAN CHANGDER
124. “Pidgin” most closely refers to:
120. It is a grouping of linguistically linked lan-
guages, stemming from a common ances- A. An extinct Native American language
tral mother-language B. A language group in central Africa
A. sociolect C. People who speak multiple dialects
B. language family D. A rudimentary language used primar-
C. language variety ily for business/trade interactions
D. none of above 125. When a pidgin has been spoken by many
generations, it becomes a creole.
121. Sociolinguistics is most appropriately de-
fined as which of these? A. True
A. The study of human behavior B. False. A pidgin becomes a creole be-
B. The scientific study of vocal sounds cause of a need
C. The study of animal vocalizations C. False. A creole becomes a pidgin after

being spoken by many generations
D. The scientific study of language usage
D. none of above
122. Language exists for the purpose of com-
munication and can only be learned in 126. The ability to compensate when there
the context of interaction with people who are breakdowns in communication, for ex-
want to communicate with you. ample, paraphrasing.
A. Behaviorism A. Strategic competence
B. Innateness B. Grammatical competence
C. Social Interactionist C. Communicative competence
D. Cognitive D. none of above

7. real Typology and South Asian
Language Familie
7.1 Language Typology

1. PHONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION C. Some microorganisms are harmful
A. CONSONANTALVOCALIC while others are beneficial.
B. PHONEMICVOCALIC D. Microorganisms are beneficial only to

humans.
C. PHONEMICCONSONANTAL
D. none of above 5. Which semantic structure does the sen-
tence “Mary is making a cake” have?
2. The main motive for the trip is the search
A. Agent + Action+ Affected
for certain collectibles-from stamps to
coins, fossils, shells and antiques B. Agent+ Action+ Effect
A. Celebrity hunting tourism C. Affected+ Affect+ Affecting
B. Urban Cultural Tourism D. Affecting+ Affect+ Affected
C. Cultural tourism in rural environments 6. What is the main feature of analytic lan-
guages?
D. Collectible tourism A. Segmentation within a word
3. In what parable did people thing the B. One-to-one word-morpheme corre-
wages were unfair? spondence
A. The Good Samaritan C. Possibility to change the word order
B. Workers in the Vineyard D. The word order is S-O-V for each ana-
C. Prodigal Son lytic language
D. Mustard Seed 7. Creative tourism where the main motiva-

tion is to participate in the safeguarding
4. Which is a true statement? the Intangible Cultural Heritage in all its
A. All microorganisms are harmful. domains.
B. All microorganisms are beneficial. A. ICH-related tourism

7.1 Language Typology 252
B. Creative Tourism 13. Microorganisms that are rod-shaped or

C. Performance tourism look spherical is known as
D. Collectible tourism A. algae
B. bacteria
8. The main motivation for travel is to create
pieces of arts or crafts for personal usage C. viruses
and enjoyment of the process D. fungi
A. Performance tourism
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14. Who is considered the founder ofTypology
B. Photographic tourism of Phonological Systems?
C. Arts and Crafts tourism A. G.Fant
D. Writing tourism B. N.S.Trubetskoy
9. Living things too small to be seen with just C. A.Martine
our eyes D. G.P.Melnikov
A. microorganisms
15. They strive for freedom and flexibility.
B. mold
A. Baby Boomers
C. decomposers
B. Generation X
D. soil
C. Generation Y
10. What does the typology of the Old Testa-
ment represent? D. Generation Z
A. The dynamic unity of the divine plan of 16. They have an entrepreneurial and inven-
salvation tive spirit.
B. The passing of revelation by word A. Baby Boomers
C. The raising of one’s mind and heart to B. Generation X
God
C. Generation Y
D. The belief in many Gods
D. Generation Z
11. What are three helpful organisms?
17. Why did Jesus tell parables?
A. Blood, Ebola, and E.coli
A. To teach lesson
B. Yeast for bread, phytoplankton, mold
for pencillin B. For people to understand what he was
saying
C. Mold, Spit, and Gas
C. So people could follow him
D. Hurtlosm, Killos, and Freezos
D. God told them through Jesus
12. What is the main parameter on the basis
of which languages of the world can be 18. Phonetic and phonological typology deals
classified morphologically? with the comparison of units of the .
A. Inflection A. phonologic level of language
B. Derivation B. semantic level of language
C. Compounding C. syntactic level of language
D. Morphosyntax D. grammatical level of language

19. This microorganism uses host cells to B. They were given more work
make copies of itself C. They were not getting paid

A. Protozoa
D. They were paid too much
B. Fungi
25. They are the digital immigrants.
C. Virus
D. Bacteria A. Baby Boomers
B. Generation X
20. Which century is called the beginning of
comparative research; C. Generation Y
A. 19th century D. Generation Z
B. 18th century up to the middle of the 26. Which one does NOT have the semantic
19th century structure of Theme+ Description?
C. 17th century up to the middle of the A. He is a student
18th century
B. He was so lazy.
D. middle of the 18th century
C. He is the most intelligent.
21. What is the agent argument in this sen- D. He is not patient.
tence “Chris is making omelet.”?
A. Chris 27. Syntactic typology engages in a compari-
son of
B. Make
A. morphologic level units
C. Omelet
D. All are correct B. grammatic level units
C. syntactic level units
22. They prefer communicating face to face
but sometimes telephone and emails are D. none of above
fine too.
28. One of the first decomposers to work on
A. Baby Boomers dead matter is called
B. Generation X A. mold
C. Generation Y B. worm
D. Generation Z C. beetle.
23. In which generation does a 28-year old be- D. euglena
long to?
29. TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS ARE:
A. Baby Boomers
A. 1. Morphological 2. Phonological 3.
B. Generation X
Syntactic
C. Generation Y
B. 1. GRAMMATICAL 2. Phonological 3.
D. Generation Z Syntactic
24. What the did workers in the Vineyard up- C. 1. GRAMMATICAL2. LEXICAL 3. Syn-
set? tactic
A. They were upset with the wages D. none of above

30. What type of instrument would you use to C. identifying formal universals
look at cells? D. none of above
A. Telescope
36. Branches of Comparative Typology as to
B. Giroscope two plans of language ?
C. Microscope A. Formal Typology
D. None of the above B. both of them
C. Semantic Typology
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31. For a long time, the linguistic school
was the centre of Phonologicaltypology. D. none of above
A. Spain 37. The main motivation for travel is to create
B. England photographic images-
A. Arts and Crafts tourism
C. Prague
B. Writing tourism
D. Australian
C. Performance tourism
32. What does the kind Samaritan show D. Photographic tourism
A. Merry
38. The name of the book was an attempt to
B. Pity create grammar on “common in all lan-
C. disgust guages” principles?
D. Oblivious A. Grammar in use
B. Essential Grammar
33. Which languages were considered to be at
C. English grammar
the intermediary stage of development
D. Universal or Rational Grammar
A. isolating
39. Semantic typology is a branch of Compar-
B. agglutinative
ative Typology studying
C. inflexional
A. the morphologic structure of the lan-
D. none of above guage
34. The tendency to replace exceptions to B. the semantic structure of the language
grammatical patterns/rules with forms
that fit the more general pattern is known C. the grammatical structure of the lan-
as guage
A. regularization D. none of above
B. normalization 40. The main motive for travel is the experi-
C. coordination ence of the complexity of urban culture,
regardless of the size of the city
D. systematization
A. Cultural tourism in rural environments
35. The ultimate goal of Formal typology is
B. Urban Cultural Tourism
A. None of them C. Collectible tourism
B. identifying formal differences D. Celebrity hunting tourism

41. In the first half of the 19th century, typo- 47. What is the degree of synthesis in a per-
logical investigations were based on fectly analytic language?

A. THE MORPHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE A. 100
B. THE GRAMMATICAL PRINCIPLE B. log(1)
C. THE PHONETICAL PRINCIPLE C. 0
D. THE LEXICAL PRINCIPLE D. 1
42. Branches of comparative typology are:
48. They were raised by the Gen Xers
A. Phonetic and phonological typology
A. Baby Boomers
B. Morphological Typology
B. Generation Y
C. Syntactic TypologyLexical Typology
C. Generation Z
D. All of them
D. Millenials
43. Morphological typology compares
49. It’s NOT TRUE to say that
A. theunits of a syntactical level
B. theunits of a grammatical level A. languages are always systematic
C. theunits of a morphological level B. languages require physiological spe-

cialization
D. none of above
C. grammaticality can only be learned in
44. Which languages were considered ar- school
chaic?
D. speakers can be creative in their use
A. Agglutinative of language
B. isolating
50. On which topics the typological investiga-
C. in flexional tions were provided in the twentieth cen-
D. none of them is correct tury?
45. This is the jelly-like substance that fills the A. MULTILATERAL OR GRADED TYPOL-
cell and holds the organelles in place. OGY
A. chloroplast B. CHARACTEREOLO-GICAL TYPOLOGY

B. cytoplasm C. QUANTITATIVE TYPOLOGY
C. nucleus D. All of them
D. mitochodria
51. Why were people able to understand Je-
46. A microorganism that can be helpful or sus’ parables
harmful to humans A. Because he spoke every language
A. bacteria B. Jesus was very blunt
B. fungi C. He made all of them about farms
C. air D. He use things that they were familiar
D. water with

52. “John is a teacher”, Which semantics role 57. Organisms called are larger than bac-
does the word “teacher” have? teria and can be found in lakes and
ponds.
A. Agent
A. cell
B. Affected
B. microbe
C. Affecting
C. protists
D. Actor D. germs
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53. What does differentiate German from 58. What does the parable of the talents teach
Turkish, in terms of morphological typol- us?
ogy? A. Do not let fear hide your talents
A. Language of the family B. Have as many talents as possible
B. Word order C. Talents are the most important thing
C. Variance of morpheme functions D. Using your talents is a sin
D. Different alphabet 59. WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT‘S classifica-

tion of languages is:
54. Which one does NOT have valency one? A. Agglutinative, flexional
A. It rained. B. Agglutinative, flexional, isolating
B. It was raining. C. Agglutinative, fluxional, isolating
C. It is a cat. D. Agglutinative, fluxional, isolating, in-
corporating
D. It sleeted yesterday.
60. Edward Sapir is the founder of
55. linguistic competence refers to A. MULTILATERAL OR GRADED TYPOL-
A. one’s unconscious linguistic knowl- OGY
edge B. * CHARACTEREOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY
B. the basic linguistic knowledge used in C. * QUANTITATIVE TYPOLOGY
real-life situations D. none of above
C. one’s ability to produce grammatical 61. A living language is a language that
language
A. has a recorded written form
D. one’s ability to explain how language
B. has more than 50, 000 speakers
works
C. is still used at some capacity
56. Which type of language is Kazakh (authors D. is natively spoken by a group of people
assume that you are familiar with its basic
grammar!) 62. A major motivation for travel is an active
participation in cultural life and
A. Agglutinative
A. Festival and Event Cultural Tourism
B. Isolating B. Urban Cultural Tourism
C. Polysynthetic C. Creative Tourism
D. Fusional D. Cinema Tourism

7.2 Features of South Asian Languages 257
63. What did seeds represent in the Parable 66. A form of cultural tourism, which aims
of the Sower? to promote public interest in archaeology
and the conservation of historical sites.

A. God’s love
B. Jesus’ word A. Archaeological Tourism
C. The Kingdom of God B. Museum Tourism
D. Original Sin C. Religion Heritage Cultural Tourism
64. Who is the father of Typology? D. Ethno-folklore Tourism
A. William Shakespeare
67. How the researchers called the period
B. Wilhelm von Humboldt
when linguists started comparing living
C. Edward Sapir languages?
D. Ivan Meshchaninov A. * CHARACTEREOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY
65. The smallest microorganism on earth is STUDIES
known as B. * QUANTITATIVE TYPOLOGY STUDIES
A. a virus
B. bacteria C. Neogrammarian studies
C. algae D. * MULTILATERAL OR GRADED TYPOL-
D. fungi OGY STUDIES
7.2 Features of South Asian Languages

1. What force was most responsible for caus- B. Muslim
ing European language to gain influence in
C. Buddhist
Southeast Asia?
D. Jainist
A. Colonialism
B. immigration 4. Which South Asian country was estab-
C. religion lished for Muslims? (7.2.5)
D. trade A. Bhutan
2. Many areas surrounding the Caspian Sea B. Sri Lanka

contain important C. Pakistan
A. rare minerals D. India
B. forestry resources
5. The hiring of an outside company or indi-
C. gold and silver mines
vidual to do work
D. oil and natural gas fields
A. Cottage industries
3. In contrast to earlier emperors, rulers of
B. Sitar
the Mughal empire were rather than
Hindu. C. Outsourcing
A. Christian D. Dalits

6. Deforestation in South Asia has led to 11. The region’s driest climate is in South
(7.2.3) Asia.
A. Increased caution of endangered A. northeastern
species in forest B. northwestern
B. Lack of infrastructure C. southeastern
C. Loss of water quality and wildlife habi- D. southwestern
tats
12. Which natural event can take place be-
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D. Loss of water quality and wildlife habi- cause of the wet monsoon season?
tats A. earthquake
7. Much of South Asia’s climate is a result of B. tsunami
seasonal wind patterns called C. typhoon
A. northerlies D. volcano
B. monsoons 13. seasonal wind pattern that affects rainfall
C. cyclones A. cyclone
D. siroccos B. alluvial plain
C. monsoon
8. What language do most people in
Bangladesh speak? D. graphite
A. Hindi 14. If Hindus follow their , they will be rein-

carnated into a higher caste.
B. Dravidian
A. Vayas
C. English
B. Dharma
D. Bengali C. Moksha
9. A dome-shaped structure erected as a D. Caste
Buddhist shrine is called a 15. Which of the following is caused by under-
A. caste sea earthquakes?
B. dharma A. typhoons
C. guru B. monsoons
C. droughts
D. stupa
D. tsunamis
10. How would you classify musical instru-
16. Which film production industry in India
ment which produces sound primarily by
creates movies that often reflect Indian
way of vibrating stretched membrane?
traditions and Hindu themes?
A. Membranophone
A. Hinglish
B. Chordophone B. Bollywood
C. Aerophone C. Parallel Cinema
D. Idiophone D. Cinema of Assam

17. resource found in Sri Lanka that is used 23. Southeast Asia has large deposits of
as “lead” for pencils A. oil and natural gas

A. cyclone B. diamonds and gold
B. monsoon C. timber and coal
C. graphite D. spices and uranium
D. alluvial plain
24. Which of the following languages is MOST
18. Where is one of the highest concentra- WIDELY spoken in Central Asia?
tions of population found in South Asia? A. Russian
A. in the Great Indian Desert B. Turkish
B. in Nepal C. Chinese
C. on the Deccan Plateau D. English
D. on the Ganges Plain
25. The Mekong River forms part of the border
19. Monsoon rains are heaviest in South of which country?
Asia. A. Thailand
A. eastern B. Malaysia
B. south central C. Indonesia
C. northern D. the Philippines
D. western 26. What part of South Asia is one of the
world’s most fertile faming regions?
20. What is the northern border of India?
A. Deccan Plateau
A. Indus River
B. Hindu Kush
B. Ganges River
C. Brahmaputra/Ganges delta
C. Himalayas
D. Khyber Pass
D. Ghats
27. What are most people in Pakistan?
21. What is the capital city of Vietnam?
A. Hindus
A. Vientiane
B. Jews
B. Hanoi
C. Muslims
C. Bangkok
D. Buddhists
D. Manila
28. In 1947, when India got Independence,
22. What is the capital of Cambodia? the region was divided
A. Penh Phnom A. between Muslims and Hindus
B. Phnom Penh B. by languages
C. Phnom C. caste levels
D. Penh D. by political parties

29. Gamelan orchestra is the most popular B. Soil Erosion

form of music in Indonesia. What would
C. Sandstorms
be the result when the musicians step
over the instruments? D. None of the above
A. possess with power 35. The people of Bhutan and Nepal differ in
B. shows disrespect appearance from other South Asians be-
C. to have supernatural powers cause their ancestors came from
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D. none of the above A. Germany
B. Iran
30. group of people also called the “untouch-
ables” C. Mongolia
A. Sitar D. Japan
B. Cottage industries
36. large, swirling storm that can causes dev-
C. Dalits astation
D. Outsourcing A. cyclone
31. Which of these islands has a “high- B. graphite
land/Vertical” climate?
C. monsoon
A. Philippines
D. alluvial plain
B. Indonesia
C. Java 37. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are
two great of ancient India.
D. Borneo
A. epic poems
32. Which term refers to a small, ring-shaped
B. classical dnaces
island?
C. musical instruments
A. alluvial plain
B. delta D. paintings
C. atoll 38. The rebirth of a soul in a new body.

D. archipelago A. dharma
33. Which country in South Asia has most of B. reincarnation
the region’s mineral resources? (7.2.2)
C. ahisma
A. Pakistan
D. shrine
B. Sri Lanka
C. India 39. What is the popular form of music in In-
donesia?
D. Maldives
A. Pinpeat Orchestra
34. Deforestation in South Asia has destroyed
B. Piphat Ensemble
animal habitat while also contributing to
the process of C. Gamelan Orchestra
A. Brain Drain D. Hsaing Waing

40. What languages does the Indo-European C. Western Ghats

language family include?
D. Indian Ocean

A. the languages of southern India and
Sri Lanka 46. What parts of India have the most fertile
B. Sanskrit, Tamil, and Kannada farmland?
C. Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam A. land near the Hindu Kush Mountains
D. English, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali B. land near the Deccan Plateau
41. Which government of South Asia is most C. land near the Himalaya Mountains
similar to the U.S. government? D. land near the Ganges River
A. Pakistan
B. India 47. area of fertile soil deposited by floodwa-
ters
C. Bhutan
A. atoll
D. Nepal
B. monsoon
42. In the Indian caste system, the was
the most powerful caste. C. cyclone
A. Sudras (Servants) D. alluvial plain

B. Brahmins (Priests)
48. What was the British imperialist rule India
C. Kshatriyas (Warriors) called?
D. Vaishyas (Merchants) A. The Vedas
43. Which cultural institution has historically B. the Raj
guided the moral and social life for most
C. The Sanskit
people in India?
A. Islam D. The Varna’s
B. Jainism 49. Reservoirs serve all the following pur-

C. Sikhism poses in East Asia except
D. Hinduism A. storing water
44. Which is NOT a natural resource found in B. irrigating crops
SE Asia? C. producing energy
A. Timber
D. protecting against floods
B. Oil
C. Gold 50. An effect of climate change on Sri Lanka
and Maldives is
D. Diamonds
A. Tsunamis
45. What separates South Asia from the rest
of Asia? B. Earthquakes
A. Eastern Ghats C. rising sea levels
B. Himalaya D. massive desertication

51. Which physical feature has often served C. jewelry, woodcarvings, and cloth
as a barrier for trade and travel in South D. ships
Asia?
A. The Himalayas 57. Which city is located on the Chao Phraya
River?
B. The Ganges River
A. Ha Chi Minh City
C. The Indian Ocean
B. Jakarta
D. The Deccan Plateau
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C. Bangkok
52. People who practice Sikhism reject the D. Manila
58. The governments of the USA and India are

A. idea of only one God
similar because they both have ?
B. Hindu caste system
A. Monarchy and Limited Governments
C. musical instruments
B. Monarchy and Unlimited Governments
D. paintings
53. Which is a true statement about Akbar the C. Democracy and Limited Governments
Great? D. Democracy and Unlimited Govern-
A. He was a pious Hindu ments
B. He ignored religious scholars 59. Analyze the musical scale used in Asia. If
C. He punished Hindus who covered to Is- Octave is eight-tone scale and Slendro is
lam five-tone scale, how many scales are used
in Pelog?
D. He encouraged freedom of religion
A. four-tone
54. Stringed instrument popular in India B. seven-tone
A. Green revolution C. eight-tone
B. Sitar D. none of the above
C. Outsourcing
60. Which South Asian countries have nuclear
D. cottage industries capability?
55. The Maldives are protected from the ef- A. India and Pakistan
fects of monsoons by B. India and Bangladesh
A. mountain ranges C. Pakistan and Bhutan
B. crops D. Nepal and Pakistan
C. barrier reefs
61. In Pakistan, the two most common lan-
D. trees guages are and English.
56. What do most cottage industries in India A. Hindi
focus on producing? B. Urdu
A. fine silk material and silk clothing C. Tamil
B. computer software D. Sanskrit

62. Which religion is followed by most Pakista- B. Bhutan

nis? C. Kashmir

A. Christianity D. Nepal
B. Judaism
68. Which of these civilizations was an impres-
C. Islam
sive ancient civilization in SE Asia?
D. Hinduism
A. Ottoman Empire
63. Which of the following did the British not B. Mongolian Empire
build in India? (7.2.5)
C. Aryan Empire
A. Schools
D. Khmer Empire
B. Electric Power Plant
69. Which of the following is an example of a
C. Ports
formal region?
D. Railroads
A. The American South
64. Which of these means “separation” and B. India
refers to the division of India in 1947 into
two countries, India and East and West C. Central America
Pakistan? D. North America
A. Partition 70. The MAIN emphasis of Budhism is placed
B. Microcredit on
C. Entrepreneur A. fasting and purification
D. None are correct B. meditating and moral behavior
65. Hindus believe in , which means that C. attending church and donating money
the actions in this life can affect your next D. focusing on family and respecting tra-
life. dition
A. karma
71. Shipbreakers wreck old ships in order to
B. reincarnation
C. enlightenment A. recycle recovered fuel
D. nirvana B. provide work for unemployed city resi-
dents
66. In Indonesia and the Philippines, where
do most people live? C. assist cottage industries
A. by inland forests D. recycle iron and steel
B. by large rivers 72. Which of the following was an island that
C. on steep mountains was once a part of the Indian landmass?
D. on lowland plains A. Philippines
67. Which region do Pakistan and India dis- B. Bhutan

agree about the political borders? C. Sri Lanka
A. Bangladesh D. Maldives

73. The two official languages of India are C. Malaysia

Hindi and D. Vietnam
A. Sanskrit
79. The overuse of forest resources can lead
B. Tamil to the of the land.
C. Punjabi A. renewal
D. English B. reforestation
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74. What is the parent language of Hindi, one C. desertifcation
of the most important languages in mod- D. overproduction
ern India?
A. ancient Greek 80. The ancient Vedas outlined a social struc-
ture that
B. Latin
A. developed into the Indian caste sys-
C. Sanskrit
tem
D. Indus
B. pertained to government officials
75. In which country of South Asia can C. prohibited the priests from any impor-
some of the world’s finest gemstones be tant duties
found?
D. all of the above
A. Sri Lanka
81. What is the tallest mountain in the world?
B. Nepal
A. Aconcagua
C. Bhutan
B. Denali
D. Bangladesh
C. Mt. Kilimanjaro
76. Which European country did India fight for
D. Mt. Everest
their independence? (7.2.5)
A. Spain 82. Which religion makes up over 80% of In-
dia’s people?
B. France
A. Sikhism
C. Great Britain
B. Hinduism
D. Russia
C. Islam
77. are places where rivers deposit soil at
the mouth of a river D. Christianity
A. Atoll 83. What do Hindus believe happens after

B. Aluvial Plain death?
C. Mountains A. a person’s spirit ceases to exist
D. Delta B. each person will be offered the chance

to enter nirvana
78. It features choruses with large orches- C. people join many gods and goddesses
tras based on struck keys and gongs.
A. Cambodia D. most people are reborn as another liv-
B. Laos ing thing

84. Which country in South Asia has most of C. Cyclone causing flooding
the region’s mineral resources?
D. Rising sea levels

A. Nepal
B. Pakistan 90. Which of the following is NOT a geo-
graphic feature of India
C. Maldives
A. Himalayas
D. India
B. Ganges River
85. A cultural behavior influenced by Hin-
duism in India is- C. Indus River
A. practicing a vegetarian diet D. Nile River

B. preparing food for Passover 91. Which religion is practiced by most Pak-
C. attending church each week istanis?
D. attending church each week A. Hinduism
86. Mount Everest is found in which mountain B. Buddhism
range? C. Islam
A. Karakoram D. Christianity
B. Hindu Kush
C. St. Thomas 92. The collision of tectonic plates forms
which of the following?
D. Himalaya
A. coral reefs
87. The Mekong River goes through which
B. mineral deposits
countries?
A. Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia C. river deltas
B. Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Papua D. volcanoes

New Guinea
93. Which river flows through India and
C. Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal?
D. China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia A. Yellow
88. It is the world’s fourth most populous B. Yangtze
country and is the fourth biggest nation of
the world. C. Mekong
A. Vietnam D. Ganges
B. Laos 94. Which Southeast Asia country is NOT a
C. Indonesia mainland country?
D. Thailand A. Cambodia
89. Which is NOT a problem for Bangladesh? B. Laos

A. Flooding from spring rains C. Singapore
B. Shadow effect D. Thailand

95. Winds from the carry moisture inland, C. Bangladesh

bringing heavy rains and flooding to the D. Thailand
region.
A. Indian Ocean 101. South Asia relies on rivers for all of the
following, EXCEPT (Choose the an-
B. Bay of Bengal swer that South Asia does NOT rely on wa-
C. Arabian Sea ter for)
D. Hindu Kush A. Transportation
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96. What the two major peninsulas found in B. Household and Drinking Water
SE Asia called? C. Irrigation
A. Yucatan, Iberian D. Sanitation
B. Baja California, Balkan
102. Which term refers to small businesses
C. Attica, Peloponnesus that employ people in their homes.
D. Indochina, Malay A. outsourcing
97. What was the most powerful kingdom of B. ecotourism
Southeast Asia and controlled the Mekong C. green revolution
River delta?
D. cottage industries
A. Mali
103. The Mekong River, like other rivers, cre-
B. Khmer
ates what landform as it approaches the
C. Pagan sea?
D. Vietnam A. delta
98. The Indus River flows southward through B. harbor
Pakistan to the C. plain
A. Bay of Bengal D. valley
B. Arabian Sea
104. Which ancient Indian civilization was re-
C. Indian Ocean sponsible for establishing the caste sys-
D. Ganges River tem?
A. Mughals
99. In the 1970s, East Pakistan achieved inde-
pendence and became B. Guptas
A. Bhutan C. Aryans
B. Nepal D. Mauryans
C. Bangladesh 105. The Ganges Plain is
D. Sri Lanka A. heavily forested
100. Which one is a member of ASEAN? B. mostly pastureland
A. India C. the world’s largest alluvial plain
B. Australia D. sparsely populated

106. What geographic feature connects the 112. What is the dominant climate region of
Indian and Pacific Oceans on either side Southeast Asia?
of the Malay Peninsula?

A. Tropical Rain Forest
A. delta
B. Tropical Savanna
B. reef
C. river C. Steppe
D. strait D. Humid Subtropical
107. What is the capital city of Malaysia?
113. Which country is the world’s largest na-
A. Kuala Lumpur tion composed of an archipelago?
B. Selangor A. Philippines
C. Shah Alam
B. Malaysia
D. Johor
C. Singapore
108. What is the capital city of Singapore?
D. Indonesia
A. Denpasar
B. Singapore City 114. Which of the following forms the north-
C. Singapore ern border of South Asia?
D. Jakarta A. Ganges River
109. What has protected Nepal and Bhutan B. Bay of Bengal
from outside influence until the 1900s?
C. Thar Desert
A. Western Ghats
B. Himalaya D. Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya
mountain ranges.
C. Brahmaputra River
D. Hindu Kush 115. Small businesses that employ people in
their homes
110. What is the most populous country in
South Asia? A. cottage industries
A. Pakistan B. Dalits
B. India
C. Green revolution
C. Sri Lanka
D. Outsourcing
D. Bangladesh
111. Which is NOT true about Southeast Asian 116. Which is NOT a factor in the Gobi Desert
music? expansion across northern China?
A. It is played in rituals and ceremonies A. rural terraces
B. It is played in religious events
B. climate change
C. It includes folk music
C. disappearing forests
D. It is okay not to play music in South-
east Asia D. changing patterns of irrigation

117. India, which is located on a subcontinent, 123. Which is an example of Vocal Music?
is separated from the rest of Asia by A. Marching Band
A. The Indian River B. Acapella
B. The Ganges River C. Rondalla
C. the Himalaya, Hindu Kush, and Karako- D. None of these
ram Range
D. The Thar Desert 124. Soil on Thailand’s Central Plain is ideal
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for growing which crop?
118. What separates SE Asia from the rest of A. wheat
Asia?
B. barley
A. Oceans
C. rice
B. Mountains
D. corn
C. Glaciers
D. Deserts 125. Ecotourism would include
A. developing the coast of Sri Lanka for
119. Which of the following features is typical golf courses
of a tropical wet/dry climate?
B. going on camera safaris in East Africa
A. hot, dry days and cold, wet nights
B. three seasons-hot, wet, and cool C. visiting Varanasi to learn about Hin-
C. hot, wet days and cool, dry nights duism
D. two seasons-hot and hotter D. going to Agra to see the Taj Mahal
120. A monsoon causes heavy to occur. 126. Where is the population density in South
A. rain Asia the lowest?
B. snow A. India
C. wind B. Bhutan and Nepal
D. ice C. Sri Lanka and Pakistan

D. Maldives
121. A combination of spices called is part
of many South Asian diets. 127. A lagoon is part of this island type.
A. poi A. Atoll Islands
B. zest B. Artificial Islands
C. curry C. Contenintal Islands
D. allspice D. Volcanic Islands
122. The largest country in South Asia is 128. What is an Archipelago?

A. Pakistan A. A chain of bones
B. Nepal B. A chain
C. India C. A chain of islands
D. Bangladesh D. 2 Chains

129. What does farming in South Asia mostly C. Sandalwood

consist of? D. Teak

A. mostly huge plantations
135. seasonal wind that brings rain to India
B. mechanized farms
during certain parts of the year
C. subsistence farming and cash crops
A. river system
D. only large commercial farms
B. hurricane
130. Who was India’s beloved nonviolent po-
C. monsoon
litical and spiritual leader?
D. floods
A. Indira Gandhi
B. Mohandas Gandhi 136. This ensemble has different types but
C. Nawaz Sharif the highly ornate one is traditionally asso-
ciated with funerals and cremation cere-
D. Mohammed Nehru monies.
131. Which of the following countries are is- A. Piphat
land nations in Southeast Asia?
B. Mahori
A. Somoa, Guam, and Tonga
C. Khrueang Sai
B. Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica
D. Gamelan
C. the Phillipines, Malaysia, and Indone-
sia 137. What is the time signature of Indonesian
D. Antigua, Barbuda, and Grenada folksong “Si Patokaan”
A. 3/4
132. Most areas along the coast of South Asia
get at least inches of rain per year. B. 4/4
A. 70 C. 2/4
B. 80 D. 6/8
C. 90
138. Which Asian nation has the second high-
D. 100 est population in the world?
133. The territory of has been the source A. China
of a long-standing conflict between India B. India
and Pakistan.
C. Indonesia
A. Kahmir
D. Japan
B. Tibet
C. Nepal 139. What natural barrier separates China
D. Bhutan and India?
A. Gobi Desert
134. Which South Asian wood is especially val-
ued for its sweet scent? B. Bay of Bengal
A. Mahogany C. Himalayan Mountains
B. Sal D. Korean Peninsula

140. A large landmass that is set apart from 146. Where is the most active area in the ring
the rest of the continent is called of fire?
A. subcontinent A. Indonesia
B. peninsula B. New Zealand
C. monsoon C. Japan
D. plateau D. South Sudan
141. What happened to the eastern part of
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147. Which of the following problems does
Pakistan in 1971? Malaysia and Indonesia face today?
A. it became Maldives A. deforestation
B. it became Bangladesh B. desalinization
C. it became Kashmir C. dictatorship
D. it became Bhutan D. unemployment
142. Many people in Southeast Asia practice 148. Overall, South Asia depends on which
, or growing enough food to feed natural resource?
their families.
A. Imported Oil
A. commercial farming
B. Nucelar Power
B. sustainable forestry
C. Manganese
C. nomadic herding
D. Lead
D. subsistence farming
149. The top social class in the caste system
143. The Eastern and Western Ghats block
was made up of
rainfall to the
A. warriors
A. Great Indian Desert
B. Khyber Pass B. merchants
C. Ganges Plain C. laborers
D. Deccan Plateau D. priests
144. The last country joined ASEAN is . . . . 150. What is the capital city of the Phillipines
A. Cambodia A. Vientiane
B. Vietnam B. Luzon
C. Singapore C. Bangkok
D. Laos D. Manila
145. Most people in Pakistan and Bangladesh 151. Which of the following common musical
belong to what religious group? scale used in Southeast Asia?
A. Muslim A. Octatave
B. Hindi B. Hexatonic
C. Christian C. Pentatonic
D. Sikh D. Monotonic

152. Which civilization developed the decimal 158. What impact did Hinduism have on Hindu
system in mathematics? society?

A. Aryans A. It promoted the principles of democ-
B. Guptas racy in society.
C. Mauryans B. It divided Indian society into different
castes.
D. Mughals
C. It encouraged equality among all peo-
153. The origins of the civilization in South ple.
Asia date back to 3500 B.C.
D. All power was given to the maharajas.
A. Aryan
B. Indus Valley 159. When companies hire an outside com-
C. Harappa pany or individuals in other countries be-
cause the labor is cheaper, that is
D. Mauryans (7.2.3)
154. Because India is large and near huge ar- A. Insourcing Industries
eas of land and water, it is considered
B. International business
A. a subcontinent
C. Outsourcing Industries
B. an isthmus
D. Cottage Industries
C. an ecosystem
D. a plateau 160. The worship of many gods.
155. The capital city of India is A. monotheism
A. New Delhi B. polytheism
B. Mumbai C. atheism
C. Kolkata D. henotheism
D. Hyderbad
161. India was a very big piece of land, but
156. Which mountainous country is an S- not as big as a continent. It was called a
shaped country bordering the South China
Sea? A. continent
A. Indonesia
B. subcontinent
B. Vietnam
C. country
C. Malaysia
D. state
D. Thailand
157. Which mountain, located in the Himalaya, 162. What term is used when people fish for
is the tallest in the world? only what they need to live?
A. Karakorum A. commercial fishing

B. Everest B. ecological fishing
C. McKinley C. seasonal fishing
D. Rainer D. subsistence fishing

163. What is India’s social class (now illegal) C. Outsourcing

called? D. Dalits
A. Fedual System
169. Which religion was founded by a noble
B. India Class
prince named Siddhartha Gautama?
C. Social Class System
A. Hinduism
D. Caste System
B. Jainism
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164. Which country is not part of island South- C. Buddhism
east Asia?
D. Animism
A. Indonesia
B. Thailand 170. Hindus believe that Karma
C. Singapore A. will influence each person’s future
D. Philippines B. is a melody played on a sitar
C. should be chanted regularly as a
165. Considered India’s holiest river.
prayer
A. Ganges River
D. is a place to leave religious offerings
B. Nile River
C. Euphrates River 171. What climate region is located along
South Asia’s northern edge?
D. Mississippi River
A. highlands
166. How do the Himalaya Mountains benefit B. steppe
India?
C. desert
A. They provide protection from foreign
enemies. D. tropical savanna
B. They have trails for trade routes. 172. refugees migrating to the US because of
C. They provide a consistent source of the Vietnam War is a perfect example of
water. what?
D. They prevent earthquakes from occur- A. push factor
ring. B. pull factor
167. What kind of climate does southwest In- C. tourism
dia have? D. temporary visas
A. desert
173. Which Southeast Asian country is an eco-
B. steppe
nomic powerhouse despite being a tiny
C. tropical rainforest island nation at the southern tip of the
D. humid continental Malay Peninsula?
A. Malaysia
168. Agricultural advances using irragation,
fertilizers, and high-yielding crops B. Cambodia
A. Green revolution C. East Timor
B. Sitar D. Singapore

174. h of the population lives where C. An industry that gathers cotton

A. Delta of India D. None of the above

B. Alluvial Plain created by Ganges River 180. The only semiarid climate is found on
C. Atoll what island?
D. Mount Everest A. Java
B. Sumatra
175. I am located south of Asia.I extend
southward to Australia.I am directly east C. Borneo
of Africa.What am I? D. Papua New Guinea
A. Amazon River
181. In what year did India finally achieve its
B. Antarctica independence from Great Britain?
C. Indian Ocean A. 1857
D. Pacific Ocean B. 1885
176. Where do most of the people of India C. 1918
live? D. 1947
A. Along the fertile river valleys. 182. Which European country colonized the
B. In the northwest near Pakistan. East Indies, which is now known as In-
C. In the center of the country. donesia?
D. Along the southern coast. A. Portugal

B. Netherlands
177. What country is entirely landlocked, with
no coasts? C. United States
A. Cambodia D. Spain
B. Laos 183. cultural convergence

C. Myanmar A. occurs when a people group leaves
their culture behind
D. Vietnam
B. occurs when different cultures be-
178. Which of the following did the British not come similar
want from South Asia? (7.2.5)
C. occurs when a person leaves their cul-
A. Textiles ture behind
B. Teas D. is the movement of culture traits
C. Timber
184. What is ASEAN stand for?
D. Sugarcane A. Association of Southeast Asean Na-
179. The cottage industry is tions
A. industry where the creation of prod- B. Association of Southeast Asian Na-
ucts and services is home-based, rather tions
than factory-based C. Association of Southeast Asean Nation
B. An industry using factories to make
cotton products D. Association of Southeast Asia Nations

185. India is home to 3 of the Earth’s most en- C. is known as the cradle of ancient India
dangered species. Such as the Tiger, one
horned-rhinoceros, and D. all answers are correct
A. Asian Elephant
191. Which South Asian country has a consti-
B. Red Bottomed Baboon tutional monarchy as their form of govern-
C. Panda ment?
D. Diamond back Anaconda A. Pakistan
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B. Maldives
186. Reincarnation is
C. Bhutan
A. a cycle of death and rebirth
D. India
B. an important Muslim tradition
C. an important part of Christian faith 192. It is the speed or pace of a given piece
of Music.
D. a way to serve milk
A. Dynamic
187. By 2030, is expected to become the B. Timbre
world’s most populous country.
C. Melody
A. Pakistan
D. Rhythm
B. India
C. Bangladesh 193. Which two new religion arose in South
Asia around 500 B.C.?
D. Nepal
A. Hinduism and Jainism
188. “Sustainable development” refers to B. Hinduism and Buddhism
economic development
C. Janisism and Buddhism
A. in rural areas only
D. Jainism and Islam
B. without depleting resources
194. Who make up the largest religious group
C. using subsistence farming techniques
in India?
D. in urban areas only
A. Jains
189. It consists of different classifications of B. Buddhists
instruments played together without any
C. Muslims
vocals.
D. Hindus
A. Melody
B. Tonality 195. What would you use to create an impro-
vised Kendang instrument in order to play
C. Vocal
the beat in Gamelan orchestra?
D. Instrumental
A. can
190. The Indus River B. stone
A. flows mainly through Pakistan C. plastic container
B. empties into the Arabian Sea D. glass bottle

7.3 India as a Linguistc Area 275
7.3 India as a Linguistc Area

1. The official language of the Union shall be 6. The reorganization of the States on lin-
Hindi in script. guistic lines has provided geographical
A. Sanskrit foundations for in India.
B. Roman A. nationalism
C. Pali B. sub-nationalism
D. Devanagari C. unity
2. The Commission was appointed in D. integration

1983 to examine the language problem in
India. 7. The Constitution of India has approved of
languages.
A. Tarpore
A. 22
B. Roy
B. 12
C. Tendulkar
D. Sarkaria C. 32
D. 1
3. is the Associate official language and
the language to be used while communi- 8. The three language formula is such as
cating with the states. language, Hindi and English.
A. English A. regional
B. Hindi
B. French
C. Devanagari
C. Italian
D. Roman
D. Urdu
4. The Sarkaria Commission suggested that
the styles, forms and expression of 9. M. N. Srinivas’s suggestion for the use of
along with other regional languages are Script may also be considered.
to be retained in the process of develop- A. Roman
ment of official language.
B. Devanagari
A. Hindi
C. English
B. English
C. Urdu D. dongri
D. Bhojpuri 10. is the language used by the Central
Government as per Article 343 when com-
5. The had provided for safeguard of lin-
municating with the states of Hindi Belt.
guistic minorities in States.
A. State Commission A. Devanagari
B. State economic Commission B. Pali
C. State Reorganization Commission C. Hindi
D. State formation Commission D. Modi

7.3 India as a Linguistc Area 276
11. These linguistic loyalties slow down the B. Karnataka

evolution of a language. C. Belgaon
A. different D. Maharashtra
B. separate
13. Particular language promotes local
C. common identity and uniqueness among people.
D. distinct A. local
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12. the are divided on the basis of Konkani B. national
and Marathi languages. C. official
A. Goans D. constitutional

8. Psycholinguistics, Language
Learning and Language Teaching
8.1 Psycholinguistics
1. Who postulated that the language of an in- A. pragmatics
dividual reflects his/her psyche/mind? B. semantics
A. Aristotle C. syntax
B. Heraclitus D. morphology
C. Wilhelm Wundt
5. Which function doesn’t belong to imagina-
D. Heymann Steinthal tion?
2. The method developed in times of war be- A. making plans
cause of demands to communicate with B. giving a stimulus
warring parties is
C. analyze past situations
A. Audiolinguistik method D. making predictions of the future
B. audiovisual method
6. A person who engages in the practice of
C. American Army Method using two languages interchangeably is
D. All true called
A. bilingual
3. Before language performance can be-
come automatic, learners are required to B. diglosia
C. interferention
A. memorize D. Code mixing
B. imitate
7. Discovery learning (learning by doing) is
C. practice advocated in what theory?
D. remember A. Cognitive
4. the study of the ways in which context con- B. Nativist

tributes to meaning C. Interactionist

8.1 Psycholinguistics 278
D. Behaviorist 13. What is not a language acquisition mecha-

nism in children is
8. What is psycholinguistics concerned
with? A. Imitation
A. The way in which language is produced B. Generalization

and understood. C. conditioning
B. The arrangement of words to create D. Social Cognition
well-formed sentences.
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C. How words are formed. 14. Language Acquisition berarti?
D. none of above A. bagaimana sebuah bahasa diproses
dan dipahami
9. Which factor does not affect the rate and
B. bagaimana suatu bahasa diproduksi
success of second language learning?
C. bagaimana bahasa baru dipelajari
A. Profession
B. Age D. bagaimana anak-anak memperoleh ba-
hasa pertamanya
C. Motivation
D. Aptitude 15. Something that will affect the level of
knowledge and includes a system of ideas
10. Where (country) was successfully applied or ideas contained in the human mind.
the psycholinguistics approach?
A. Thinking
A. U.S
B. speak
B. U.K
C. Cultured
C. Phillipines
D. social
D. Brazil
16. The process of mastering knowledge
11. Thoughts make up Language. Without about the grammar (grammar) of the
thought, language would not exist. mother tongue which is mastered by the
A. Teori Wilhelm van Humboldt child unconsciously is
B. Theory Jean Piaget A. Semantics
C. Teori L.S. Vygotsky B. Phonology
D. Sapir-Whorf theories C. Competency
12. Who is a Swiss linguist who has tried to ex- D. Performance
plain what language really is (linguistics),
and how the state of language is in the 17. Which mneumonic mechanism is
brain (psychology). this?Forgetting some or all information.
A. Otto Jespersen A. memorization
B. Leonard Bloomfield B. preservation
C. By Humboldt C. recollection
D. Ferdinand de Saussure D. obliteration

18. the scientific study of the human mind and B. Attitude

behavior C. Pronunciation

A. psychology D. Habits
B. cognitive science
24. the scientific study of language-analysis
C. cognitive psychology
of form, meaning, and context
D. linguistics
A. linguistics
19. Providing language rules to students by B. psychology
using systematic examples, both for cor-
C. neurolinguistics
rect and more complete student utter-
ances is the meaning of D. cognitive science
A. Correction 25. Which of the following is a “garden path”
B. Expansion sentence?
C. Frequency A. The child read a book.
D. Systematic B. The florist sent the flowers was
pleased.
20. Language is used by humans for commu-
nication. C. The dogs ran outside.
A. Language is arbitrary. D. none of above
B. Language is social. 26. the study of how different parts of the

C. Language is symbolic. brain are involved in performing different
functions related to language
D. Language is vocal.
A. neurolinguistics
21. When was brain damage associated with
B. cognitive psychology
language loss for the first time?
C. psycholinguistics
A. 20th century
D. cognitive science
B. 18th century
C. Ancient times (3000 BC) 27. What is the main cause of Conduction
Aphasia?
D. 1500 AD
A. Damage on the left inferior frontal
22. The hypothesis which states that person- gyrus
ality influences the language acquisition
B. Damage on the fibre tracts of the brain
process is
A. Affective
C. Damage on the upper posterior tempo-
B. Talent ral gyrus
C. Motivation D. Damage on Broca’s area
D. affective filter
28. According to which theorist do thought
23. What is one factor that affects language and language originate independently, but
learning? later merge?
A. Aptitude A. Piaget

B. Skinner 33. A mother uses different vocabulary to talk

to her baby compared to the vocabulary
C. Vygostsky
she uses when talking with her father.
D. Chomsky This component of language is called
?
29. Which is not the main focus of psycholin-
A. Syntax
guistic studies?
B. Pragmatics
A. how children acquire their first lan-
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guage C. Semantics
B. how a language is processed and un- D. Morphology

derstood 34. Which menumonic mechanism is this?You
C. how languages experience shifts and make sure that the memory remains as it
extinction is, and does not change or disappear.
D. how a language is produced A. obliteration
B. reminiscence
30. In 1954 a book was published entitled Psy-
cholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Re- C. preservation
search Problems written by: D. recognition
A. Jacob Robert 35. Which field of linguistics deals with the
B. Pronko H study of language and ethnic types includ-
ing behaiour?
C. Charles E. Osgood
A. ethnolinguistics
D. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. clinical linguistics
31. Psycholinguistics of this generation ar- C. biolinguistics
gues that in the language process it is not D. developmental psycholinguistics
the language grains that are obtained, but
the rules and the system of rules. is a look 36. unit of speech sound that is capable of dis-
at the generation tinguishing one word from another
A. 1 A. phoneme
B. 2 B. phonology
C. 3 C. morpheme
D. 4 D. lexicon
37. Theory which states language is con-

32. the study of words, how they are formed,
structed in a sociocultural context, de-
and their relationship to other words in
pending on cognitive/ environmental fac-
the same language
tors.
A. morphology A. behaviourist
B. morpheme B. innatist
C. pragmatics C. cognitive
D. phonology D. contextual

38. Which one is NOT an aspect of language 43. Disorders that cause the sound produced
learning of the Innatist? to be nasal. As a result of the factor

A. Universal Grammar A. laryngeal
B. Critical Period B. lingual
C. Grammatical judgement C. Resonance
D. Habit formation D. cognitive
44. Which of the following is used to describe

39. Which field of linguistics is particularly in-
objective reflection on the nature of lan-
terested in the brain’s control over the
guage?
process of speech and understanding?
A. psycholinguistics
A. neurolinguistics
B. metalinguistic reasoning
B. cognitive psychology
C. morphological pragmatics
D. linguistic relativity
45. This concerns with the study of speech
40. Which of the following does not belong to sounds.
the group? A. Morphology
A. language acquisition B. Phonology
B. language comprehension C. Pragmatics
C. language production D. Syntax
D. language origin 46. Two language learning elements usually
examined by Psycholinguistics are?
41. Propulsive speech is usually found in peo-
ple with disease where damage oc- A. Time of tasks-use of grammar
curs to the brain ducts which causes the B. Language comprehension-type of task
muscles to become shaky, stiff, and weak
A. Resonatal C. Type of task-language mistakes
B. Mutism D. none of above
C. Parkinson 47. one of Krashen’s hypotheses which states

that listening is very important in lan-
D. Multifactorial
guage acquisition is
42. The theory that forms the basis for devel- A. Acquisition and learning hypothesis
oping audiolingual and audiovisual meth- B. Monitors hypothesis
ods is
C. Input Hypothesis
A. BEHAVIORISTIC
D. The Innate Hypothesis
B. nativist
48. In most right handed individuals, special-
C. cognitivists
ized language areas of the brain are in the
D. naturalistic .

A. right hemisphere 54. When a student’s first language contin-

B. left hemisphere ues to be developed while they’re learning
their second language is called
C. frontal lobes
D. occipital lobes A. Additive bilingual
B. Subtractive bilingual
49. specialty that provides continuing and
comprehensive mental and behavioral C. Divided bilingual
health care for individuals and families
D. none of above
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A. clinical psychology
B. cognitive psychology 55. Which factors do not affect the speed of
language acquisition?
D. neurolinguistics A. Attitude
50. It requires the creation of situations that B. Talent

allow knowledge to be internalized sub- C. Motivation
consciously.
D. Output
A. Acquisition
B. Development 56. The language used by a community group
C. Learning in a certain area that is in two certain lan-
guages is
D. Mastery
A. First language
51. Subtractive bilingualism is not associated
with: B. Pidgin language
A. Loss of identity C. Local language
B. A sense that one’s language and cul- D. Ethnic language
ture are inferiority
C. The home language being replaced by 57. An editing expression is
the L2
A. I mean
D. Positive views toward one’s home lan-
guage B. mmm
C. uhhh
52. What is the smallest unit of language?
A. Morpheme D. none of above
B. Phoneme 58. Consciousness is because we can’t
C. Letter think about nothing, we need to have an
D. Vocabulary object/subject to think about or some-
thing to process.
53. the list of words in our heads
A. ideal
A. lexicon
B. grammar B. idea-centered
C. semantics C. intentional
D. phonology D. none of above

59. Conditioning mechanisms or habituation 64. What is a TOT?

of speech heard by children and associ- A. The Organizational Team
ated with objects or events that occur.

B. Talk or Talk
This mechanism was proposed by
C. Tip of the Tongue
A. Noam Chomsky
D. none of above
B. Emmon Bach
65. It is the study of the patterns which dic-
C. B.F Skinner tate how words are combined to form sen-
D. Abdullah Charer tences.
A. Morphology
60. One of the pioneers of Psycholinguistics
B. Phonology
was Jacob Robert who wrote a book enti-
tled An Objective Psychology of Grammar C. Pragmatics
in D. Syntax
A. 1934 66. What is the name of the scientific study of
B. 1935 the human mind and behavior?
C. 1936 A. psychology
B. cognitive science
D. 1939
C. cognitive psychology
61. All languages have their system of ar- D. linguistics
rangement.
67. the study of the mental representations
A. Language is arbitrary. and processes involved in language use
B. Language is systematic. A. psycholinguistics
C. Language is symbolic. B. neurolinguistics
D. Language is vocal. C. cognitive psychology
D. lexicon
62. Disorders due to organ imperfection are
as follows. except 68. Consciousness is because it’s op-
posed to the material world, it’s indepen-
A. deaf dent from the world of objects.
B. blind A. intentional
C. tunawisma B. idea-centered
D. none of above C. ideal
D. none of above
63. “Give cookie” is an utterance made in
which stage. 69. the linguistic and philosophical study of
meaning
A. Holophrastic
A. semantics
B. Two-Word B. syntax
C. Telegraphic C. morphology
D. Blabbling D. pragmatics

70. What factors influence the occurrence of B. morphology

code mixing and interference? C. phonology
A. Second language D. psycholinguistics
B. First language
76. The retrieval of a word depends on
C. mother tongue
A. The pauses you make.
D. Slang
B. Your mental Lexicon.
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71. the interdisciplinary, scientific study of
C. Frequency and Predictability
the mind and its processes (of language,
perception, memory, attention, reasoning, D. none of above
& emotion)
77. Language and culture and social interac-
A. cognitive science tion are the two factors affecting the cog-
B. psycholinguistics nitive development of a person according
to
C. clinical psychology
A. Chomsky
D. clinical psychology
B. Vgotsky
72. According to Chomsky, children
C. Mansky
A. are born already knowing a language
D. none of above
B. learn through imitation
C. are born with an instinct or drive for 78. Which region in the brain is responsible
language learning for the production of language?
D. none of above A. Corpus Callosum

B. Cerebrum
73. This is concerned with the role of context
in the interpretation of meaning. C. Wernicke’s Area
A. Morphology D. Broca’s Area
B. Phonology 79. Instead of saying, “I’m not going, “ the
C. Pragmatics child says, “No me go.” This component
of language is called ?
D. Semantics
A. Morphology
74. The approach used in the 1994 curriculum
B. Syntax
and KTSP is
C. Semantics
A. Communicative approach
D. Pragmatics
B. Cognitive approach
C. Audiolingual approach 80. Who was the first to introduce the term
psycholinguistics?
D. Audiovisual Approach
A. Nicholas Henry
75. the set of rules, principles, and processes
that govern the structure of sentences in B. Jacob Robert
a given language, specifically word order C. Eric Lenneberg
A. syntax D. Krashen

81. This deals with the meaning of words and 86. the systematic organization of sounds in
sentences. languages

A. Morphology A. phonology
B. Phonology B. phoneme
C. Pragmatics
C. morphology
D. Semantics
D. pragmatics
82. Which areas does psycholinguistics com-
prise? 87. An example of a Verbal filler is
A. first language acquisition A. uuhmm
B. second language acquisition B. eehhh
C. language production C. well
D. all of the above
D. none of above
83. Whats is Phsycholinguistics?
88. The recognition that children who pretend
A. It is the scientific study of language. they are reading or writing understand
B. It is the study of the psychological a lot about literacy belongs to which ap-
and neurobiological factors that enable proach
humans to acquire, use, and understand
A. Emergent literacy
language.
C. It is the science of behavior and mind. B. Reading readiness
C. phonetic
D. none of above D. Phonemic awareness
84. When children are exposed to additional
89. A language that has a consistent relation-
languages at age three or older, they are
ship between graphemes and sounds can
considered
be said to
A. Successive bilingualism
A. be logosyllabic
B. Simultaneous bilingualism
B. have a shallow or transparent orthog-
C. Receptive bilingualism
raphy
D. none of above
C. have a deep orthography
85. Which type of memory is this?It can be
D. be phonologically regular
used to remember a phone number that
has just been recited, but after you dial
90. smallest unit of language that carries
it you completely erase it from your mem-
meaning
ory.
A. morpheme
A. sensory
B. short-term B. morphology
C. long-term C. phoneme
D. none of above D. phonology

91. Mental symptoms that can determine the 96. In top-down processing, a person
relationship between something we know
A. Learning small details
or an activity that involves our brain work-
ing. B. Utilize previous knowledge
A. speak C. Learn from unexpected information
B. Think D. Utilize knowledge on alphabets, words
C. cultured
97. Which part of the brain handles one’s
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D. social
speech?
92. Mental block can cause a person to be less A. Wernicke’s area
successful in acquiring a second language.
Mental blocks are also called B. Broca’s area
A. affective attitude C. Auditory association area
B. Affective Filters D. Primary motor cortex
C. innate nature
98. What is the supporting theory mentioned
D. defensive in the prsentation?
93. It is the study of word structures, espe- A. Social-affective theory
cially the relationships between related
words. B. Universal Grammar
A. Morphology C. Krashen’s input hypothesis
B. Phonology D. Cognitive development theory
C. Pragmatics
99. When a person is able to learn a sec-
D. Syntax ond language without experiencing inter-
ference with the first language, then this
94. a set of semantic, syntactic, morphologi-
is referred to as:
cal, and phonological categories and rules
that underlie humans’ ability to speak and A. simultaneous bilingual
understand
B. sequential bilingual
A. grammar
C. additive bilingual
B. lexicon
D. subtractive bilingual
C. Stroop Effect
D. pragmatics 100. Psycholinguistics as a field of science
that uses linguistic theory to analyze the
95. English is Greg’ L1. His family moves
mental processes that form the basis of
to Colombia. He learns Spanish fluently
human language behavior.
there . What phenomenon is it?
A. Emmon Bach
A. Assimilation
B. simultaneous bilingualism B. Henry Guntur Tarigan
C. mixed speech C. Tervoort
D. successive bilingualism D. Clark and Clark

101. Innate linguistic knowledge consisting 106. Disorders due to medical factors, one
of a set of principles common to all lan- of which is speech mechanism disorders.
guages is called.. What is a speech disorder caused by a

lung disorder called?
A. background knowledge
A. Pulmonal
B. grammatical judgement
B. laryngeal
C. universal grammar
C. lingual
D. critical period
D. resonantal
102. What is the name of the scientific study
107. Stage of language acquisition in which
of language-analysis of form, meaning,
the use of vowel and consonant sounds,
and context?
as well as their combinations.
A. linguistics
A. Cooing
B. psychology
B. Babbling
C. neurolinguistics C. Telegraphic Speech
D. cognitive science D. One Word stage
103. Non-fluent aphasia refers to: 108. Which hemisphere of the brain is thought
A. Difficulty to verbalize thoughts to be related to language acquisition?
B. Difficulty with thinking and reasoning A. right hemisphere

B. left hemisphere
C. Difficulty understanding a speech
C. front hemisphere
D. Difficulty using the muscles needed for
speech D. back hemisphere
104. Adding an affix is an interference in the 109. When there is a breakdown in the Con-
field ceptual Preparation Stage, we call it a
A. phonology A. Lexical Exchange

B. Sound perseveration
B. morphology
C. Semantic Substitution
C. syntax
D. none of above
D. semantics
110. A pause is
105. How does the psycholinguistics ap-
proach influence the writing skill? A. a breakdown
B. hesitation
A. It helps to specify writing levels and
types C. noise
B. It reduce the intrinsic difficulties D. none of above
C. It explains how personality affects stu- 111. Language consists of various sound sym-
dents performance while learning a lan- bols to denote some objects, occurrence
guage. or meanings.
D. none of above A. Language is arbitrary.

8.2 Language Teaching 288
B. Language is social. 115. Which of the following is a method of the

psycholinguistics approach?
C. Language is symbolic.
A. Lexical storage Psycholinguistics
D. Language is vocal.
B. Cognitive psycholinguistics
112. There are 4 stages (periods) of the his- C. Theoretical psycholinguistics.
tory of the development of language learn-
D. none of above
ing. The phonetic method was developed
in the period
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116. Age is one of the determinants of lan-
A. 1880-1920 guage learning. Adults are faster in terms
of acquiring
B. 1920-1940
A. phonology and pronunciation systems
C. 1940-1970 B. phonology and semantics
D. 1950-1960 C. morphology and syntax
113. Bambang studied English because he D. vocabulary and phonology

wanted to get a promotion in his office. 117. the scientific study of internal mental
This shows a functioning motivation processes such as how people think, per-
A. integrative ceive, and communicate
B. intrinsic A. cognitive psychology
C. Instrumental B. clinical psychology

D. Material
114. What is the name of Jacob Robert’s stu-
118. Piaget has been criticised for underesti-
dent who wrote an article entitled “Lan-
mating what factor in language develop-
guage and Psycholinguistics; a review”?
ment?
A. Nicholas Henry A. biology
B. Ferdinand de Saussure B. intelligence
C. Chomsky C. social interaction
D. Abdul Chaer D. biology and intelligence
8.2 Language Teaching

1. The Series Method was developed by to communicate functionally and interac-
tively.
A. C. Marcel
A. Linguistic Competence
B. T. Prendergast
B. Communicative Competence
C. F. Gouin
C. Cohesion and Coherence Competence
D. H. Sweet
2. is knowledge that enables a person D. Comprehension Approach

3. Which language is the medium of instruc- 8. Research has indicated that The learn-
tion in CBLT? ers know, the higher their attainment in
language tests

A. Learners’ mother tongue
A. more words
B. Teachers’ first language
B. more money
C. Second/target language
C. more math
D. Science language
D. none of above
4. It is a method in which learners work to- 9. This method was used to teach Latin and
gether to develop what aspects of a lan- Greek
guage they would like to learn.
A. Audio-Lingual
A. Communicative Ap proach B. Communicative Language Teaching
B. Grammar Translation Method C. Grammar-Translation
C. Audio-Lingual Method D. Silent Way
D. Community Language Learning 10. The term Grammar Translation (GT) was
Method introduced during which period?
5. One must be in encoding and decod- A. The Middle Ages (5th-15th century)
ing. B. The Renaissance (14th-17th century)
A. smart C. Age of Reason (17th-18 century)
B. confident D. The Modern Period (19th-Early 20th
century)
C. intelligible
11. Any of a wide variety of exercises, activi-
D. active
ties, or devices used in the language class-
6. The main activities are memorization of room for realizing lesson objectives.
dialogues, question and answer practice, A. Method
substitution drills B. Technique
A. Total Physical Response C. Syllabus
B. Audio-Lingual Method D. Approach
C. Community Language Learning 12. In 18th century, speaking was NOT the
D. The Silent Way and oral practice was limited
A. goal
7. According to history of language teaching,
B. plan
the first popular approach to foreign lan-
guage teaching was C. method
A. Natural Method D. approach
B. Direct Method 13. A set of principles, beliefs, or ideas about

the nature of learning which is also trans-
C. Grammar-Translation Method
lated into the classroom. This definition
D. none of above refers to ..

A. teaching approach A. Drilling

B. teaching method B. Dictation
C. teaching technique C. Extempore
D. teaching strategy D. Tongue Twister
14. In Grammar-Translation Method 19. “Students give, receive and use feedback
to improve their process and products.”
A. Lessons are in the target language
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A. sustained inquiry
B. New material is presented in dialogue
form B. critique and revision
C. Translation of texts C. public product
D. none of above D. reflection
15. Lexical Approach 20. The main aim of CLT is

A. The learners are guided by the teacher A. To provide communicative compe-
and do not make decisions about what or tence to the learners.
how to learn. B. To determine the language needs of
B. Learning lists of words by heart the learners.
C. * Learning takes place when learners C. To not use a language effectively and
are relaxed. appropriately.
D. The syllabus focuses on lexis D. None of the above.
16. Theoretically well-informed positions and 21. It is known as the New Key Method or
beliefs about the nature of language, the Army Method.
nature of learning and the applicability of A. The Grammar Translation Method
both to pedagogical settings.
B. Natural Approach
A. Approach
C. Community Language Learning
B. Methodology
D. none of above
C. Curriculum
22. As the name suggests, the method is all
D. Syllabus about structure.
17. Language learning theory which is based A. The Structural Approach
on the experiment which indicates that B. Suggestopedia
stimulus and response work together.
C. Task Based Language Learning
A. Behaviourism
D. none of above
B. Cognitivism
C. Humanism 23. Which one is not an activity used in CLT?
D. Constructivism A. Giving and obeying commands

B. Role plays
18. Which one of the following activities, in
particular, is very helpful to develop ‘Pro- C. Language games
nunciation’? D. Scrambled sentences

24. One of the following factors plays a vital C. variability

role in the development of Speaking Skill D. permeability
of the Learners in particular. Choose the

right answer. 29. The term “communicative competence
A. Teacher “was coined by
B. Language Lab A. Noam chomsky
C. Environment B. D.A.wilkins
C. Dell Hymes
D. Parents
D. Josiah fuller
25. reads effortlessly and confidently at a
level of understanding and a rate appro- 30. can be viewed as a teacher’s descrip-
priate for the purpose or task and the mation of what he or she will do in teaching
terial, seldom using a dictionary. a class.
A. A fluent reader A. A lesson plan
B. A good reader B. A project
C. An advid reader C. A task
26. Its main activities are memorization of 31. Meaningful practice means controlled
dialogues, question and answer practice, practice in which learners
and substitution drills. A. Express meaning as well as focus on
A. Grammar-Translation form
B. Community Language Learning B. Answer real questions about them-

selves
C. Communicative Approach
C. Talk about themselves
D. Audio-Lingual
D. none of above
27. What should CBLT teachers do?
32. Which of the following is NOT a charac-
A. set clear learning objectives for con- teristic of the Grammar Translation (GT)
tent only method?
B. create activities to teach language A. Teacher-centered
only
B. Memorization
C. scaffold the language needed for the
C. L1 as medium of instruction
study of the content
D. Emphasis on oral communication
D. measure learners’ grammatical com-
petence 33. Extrovert learners commonly have the fol-
lowing traits as follows, EXCEPT . . . .
28. The following features characterize an in-
terlanguage (the language of second lan- A. warmth
guage learner), EXCEPT . . . B. gregariousness
A. systematicity C. assertiveness
B. fossilization D. apprehensiveness

34. This method dates back to the late nine- 39. In this method, learning environment is
teenth and early twentieth century very important as it includes relaxing mu-
A. Audio-Lingual sic and art.
B. Grammar-Translation A. Suggestopedia
C. Communicative Language Teaching B. TPR
D. Total Physical Response C. CLL
D. Communicative Approach
35. The degree to which another person can
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understand someone’s spoken language 40. This is a method which is based on the co-
is referred to as ordination of speech and action.
A. accuracy A. Total Physical Response Method
B. appropriacy B. Direct method
C. intelligibility C. Grammar Translation Method
D. none of above D. Communicative Approach
36. What does “schemata” refer to in relation 41. The following methods were introduced
to a listening task? during the Methods Era EXCEPT:
A. level and speed of speaking in a A. The Grammar Translation Method
recorded text
B. The Audiolingual Method
B. the usefulness of prior knowledge and
experience C. The Silent Way
C. interest in a topic that students are go- D. Total Physical Response
ing to hear about 42. What technique is used if exchange of in-
D. none of above formation between students occur?
37. is the extent where learners use the A. Information-gap task
language quickly and confidently, with B. Opinion-gap task
few hesitations or unnatural pauses, false
C. Reasoning-gap task
starts, word searches, etc
D. none of above
A. Accuracy
B. Fluency 43. Second language learning should be more
like first language learning.
C. Appropriacy
A. Direct Method
D. none of above
B. Audiolingual Method
38. A pedagogical practices in general includ-
C. Silent Way
ing theoretical underpinnings and related
research (whatever consideration are in- D. Total Physical Response
volved in “how to teach”)
44. most frequent words account for of all
A. Method of the words in spoken and written texts
B. Methodology in English
C. Approach A. 80%
D. Curriculum B. 60%

C. 90% A. to enable students to read and appre-

D. none of above ciate literature.

B. to enable students to communicate in
45. Surface strategy taxonomy highlights the the target language.
ways surface structure is altered; in this
taxonomy, errors can be classified into C. to enjoy the experience of learning.
the following terms EXCEPT . . . D. none of above
A. omission
50. Which is an appropriate activity for a Com-
B. morphology municative Language Teaching lesson?
C. addition A. Solving a problem in partners
D. misformation. B. Dialogue
46. A person is considered a “fluent” reader C. Skits
if he can D. All of the above.
A. translate basic text from one language
to another 51. The meaning of this method should be
connected directly with the target lan-
B. pronounce authentic text properly guage without translating to the native
when reading aloud language.
C. read quickly and accurately without
A. Indirect Method
great effort in decoding
B. Direct Method
D. none of above
47. For developing Listening skill, which of the Method
following method is appropriate?
D. Total Physical Response Method
A. Direct Method
B. Communicative Language Teaching 52. Students are expected to interact with ,
Method either in the flesh, through pair and group
work, or in their writings
C. Audio-Lingual Method
A. classroom excercises
D. Desuggestopedia Method
B. reading texts
48. There is no correction of mistakes. Learn- C. other people
ing takes place by the students being ex-
posed to language that is comprehensible D. none of above
or made comprehensible to them.
53. During the Classical Period (5th-4th cen-
A. The Natural Approach tury BC), the main objective of learning a
B. Communicative language teaching foreign language was for purposes.
C. The Silent Way A. trading
D. none of above B. philosophical
C. social
49. What is the purpose of Communicative
Learning Teaching? D. artistic-literary

54. There is a heavy dependence on imitating C. to allow interaction and writing.

language models and memorization of di-
D. to allow interaction and communica-
alogues
tion.
A. Audio-Lingual
B. Grammar-Translation 60. This method was the most popular and
widely used method for language teaching
between the ages of 1840 to 1940.
D. Communicative Language Teaching
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A. Direct Method
55. Selinker (1977) talked about cognitive
B. Audiolingual Method
strategies in second language learning,
EXCEPT C. Grammar Translation Method
A. language transfer D. none of above
B. strategies of second language learn-
ing 61. People need to be in a state of “relaxed
concentration” in order to learn effec-
C. transfer of training
tively. This is an emphasis for X method-
D. error fossilization ology. X is
56. In the language classroom, new material A. Suggestopedia
is presented in dialogue form.
B. CLL
A. Grammar Translation Method
C. TPR
B. Silent way
C. Audiolingual Method D. The Silent Way
D. Total Physical Response 62. Learning is largely by translation to and

57. This method suggests the teacher is from the target language. Grammar rules
“silent” most of the time. are to be memorized and long lists of vo-
cabulary learned by heart
A. Total Physical Response
A. The Lexical Syllabus
B. Silent Way
C. Suggestopedia B. Task-based language learning
D. Audiolingual Method C. Grammar-translation
58. Which activity is included in text-based D. none of above

method in CLT?
63. The principle of this language learning the-
A. news paper ory focuses on affective aspects more on
B. gap fills the development of individual’s self con-
C. magazine cept.
D. game-boards A. Behaviorism
59. The primary function of language is B. Cognitivism
A. to allow for the learning of grammar. C. Humanistic

B. to engage in mathematics. D. Constructivism

64. Communicative approaches C. scrambled sentences

A. Fluency is more important than accu- D. none of above

racy.
69. Think-Pair-Share is an example of
B. Translating texts and/or isolated sen-
tences from LI to L2 or vice versa. A. teaching approach
C. The syllabus focuses on lexis. B. teaching method
D. The teacher inputs language and C. teaching strategy
guides students.
D. teaching technique
65. The students’ ability to recognize and pro-
duce the distinctive grammatical struc- 70. In teacher Nestor’s class, new items are
tures of a language and to use them effec- introduced and practiced situationally.
tively in communication is called com- A. oral-situational
petence.
B. grammar-translation
A. grammatical
C. audiolingualism
B. sociolinguistic
D. direct approach
C. strategic
D. discourse 71. The Silent Way aims to enable students to
use the target language for
66. This method places emphasis on the so-
cial and situational contexts of communi- A. Reading and Writing
cation B. Accuracy in Grammar
A. Grammar-Translation C. Literature
B. Audio-Lingual D. Communication
72. According to Prabhu, what are the differ-
D. Communicative Language Teaching ent types of tasks in TBLT?
67. In the Middle Ages (5th-15th century), A. Target tasks and pedagogical tasks.
was the principal medium of instruction,
B. Classwork and homework.
taught to help clerics to speak, read, and
write in their L2. C. Information gap, reasoning gap and
opinion gap.
A. Greek
D. None of the above.
B. Latin
C. English 73. In this approach, there is early reading of
D. German difficult texts which the students convert
in their native language
68. In this technique the students are given a
A. direct approach
passage (a text ) in which the sentences
are not in order. B. affective-humanistic
A. language games C. grammar-translation
B. picture strip story D. comprehension-based

74. Teaching and learning language principles 79. By using this the method, the teacher
which relate to mental and intellectual needs to teach a variety of context for
function. a variety of purposes. What is this
method?
A. Affective
A. Direct Method
B. Cognitive
B. Structural-situational Method
C. Linguistic
C. Communicative Approach
D. none of above
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D. Grammar Translation Method
75. TRUE or FALSE:The authors believe that
the use of well-designed comprehension 80. Which task is not involved in TBLT ap-
questions will help students become bet- proach?
ter readers.Which type of comprehension
A. Output-prompting task
question is it?
B. Information-gap task
A. literal
C. Conversation task
B. inference
D. none of above
C. evaluation
D. none of above 81. In teacher Jhoanna’s class, grammar is
learned inductively. Literary texts are
76. Which of the following refers to a casual read for pleasure but are not analyzed
form of conversation that breaks the ice grammatically.
or fills silence between people?
A. direct approach
A. small talk
B. grammar translation
B. quick chat
C. cognitive approach
C. instant message
D. comprehension-based
D. none of above
82. The most important thing about this ap-
77. In Direct Method, the grammar is learnt proach is
A. Speaking skill
A. deductively
B. Writing skill
B. strategically
C. Grammar skill
C. orally
D. Reading skill
D. inductively
83. Classroom environment in Audio lingual
78. Guided discovery method is designed in such a way that
there is a maximum amount of
A. Learning lists of words by heart.
A. group work
B. Authentic materials
B. role play
C. The teacher gives learners examples
of a target language area C. comprehensible input
D. Emphasis on grammatical accuracy. D. mimicry/memorization

84. In Total Physical Response (TPR) 89. Counseling-Learning approach is found in

A. Characterized by a problem-solving ap-

proach A. Communicative Language Teaching
B. New material is presented in dialogue (CLT)
form B. Community Language Learning (CLL)
C. The learner is a listener and a per- C. Total Physical Response (TPR)
former responding to commands individu-
ally or collectively D. Audio-Lingual Method (ALM)
D. none of above 90. Which of the following is NOT TRUE on

how a teacher responds to students’ mis-
85. What is a focus of CLT activities?
takes in TBLT?
A. Structured around the interest of the
A. Brief explanation of grammar
instructor.
B. Modelling
B. Focused on writing
C. A personalized syllabus based on the C. Recasts
needs of the students. D. Self-correction
D. None of the above.
91. Andragogy is
86. What is being emphasised in Audiolingual A. the art of planning a lesson
Method?
B. the art and science of teaching chil-
A. vocabulary dren
B. memorization
C. the art and science of teaching adults
C. pronunciation
D. the art of delivering a lecture
D. drilling
92. Which does not include the physical envi-
87. In this approach, no use of the mother ronment of classroom?
tongue is permitted. the teacher must be
a native speaker or have nativelike profi- A. Seating arrangement
ciency of the target language. B. Whiteboard
A. affective-humanistic C. Student motivation
B. direct approach D. Equipment
C. communicative
93. Theoretical positions and beliefs about
D. oral-situational
the nature of language, the nature of lan-
88. The Aural-Oral approach aims at develop- guage learning, and the applicability of
ing both to pedagogical settings.
A. Listening and Reading A. Syllabus

B. Reading and Speaking B. Approach
C. Listening and Speaking C. Technique
D. Reading and Writing D. none of above

94. Much before the “Formal Education” be- 99. Speech act usually contains verbs (bet,
gins a child develops two of the following warn, promise, name, etc.) which are
skills. Identify. called . . . verbs
A. Reading and Writing A. performative
B. Listening and Reading B. constative
C. Listening and Speaking
C. imperative
D. Listening and Writing
D. regular
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95. It is a method in which students learn
grammatical rules and apply them by 100. What is the principle of CLT?
translating from L1 to L2. A. The study is teacher-centered
A. Gramar Translation Method
B. The study is focused not on the gram-
B. Audio-Lingual Method mar nor the fluency
C. Direct Method C. The study is learner-centered
D. The study is focused on structures and
96. Put these notions (approach, method, grammar
technique) in a hierarchical order begin-
ning with the major one: 101. It gives students a lot of speaking prac-
tice by using habit formation drills.
A. method, approach, technique
A. Task-based approach
B. technique, method, approach
C. method, technique, approach B. Communicative Approach
D. approach, method, technique C. Audio-lingualism method
97. It is based on a computer analysis of lan- D. Communicative Language Teaching

guage which identifies the most common
102. Discovery-learning concept is found in
(and hence most useful) words in the lan-
guage and their various uses.
A. Task-based language learning A. Total Physical Response
B. The Natural Approach B. Direct Method
C. The Lexical Syllabus C. Silent Way
D. none of above D. Grammar Translation Method
98. CBI is an approach to L2 where teach-
103. is the extent to which students’
ing is organized around that students
speech matches what people actually say
need to acquire rather than on the linguis-
when they use the target language.
tic form
A. Accuracy
A. tasks or projects
B. the information or content B. Fluency
C. school subjects C. Complexity
D. grammatical structures D. none of above

104. Students form small groups and play a 109. Classroom activities such as discussion
game of charades. Each student takes groups, lectures, tape recorder, coopera-
turns acting out a verb. tive learning, etc. are likely most suitable

A. Total Physical Response for . . . learners.
B. Suggestopedia A. impulsive
B. auditory
C. Audiolingual Method
C. visual
D. The Silent Way
D. kinesthetic
105. Choose the alternative that best com-
pletes the text. ‘ Learning Strategies’ 110. “Did you like the reading? Why or why
are those that learners use to give them- not?”Which type of comprehension ques-
selves encouragement and to deal with tion is it?
anxiety. A. personal response
A. Meta-cognitive B. evaluation
B. Cognitive C. prediction
C. Social D. none of above
D. Affective 111. “Simon says” is a great example of
A. Direct Method
106. Humanistic principles have important im-
plications for education. According to this B. Grammar Translation Method
approach, the focus of education is . . . C. Total Physical Response Method
A. teaching D. Audio-Lingual Method
B. learning 112. It is the smallest unit of sound in a word.
C. training A. Morpheme
D. instruction B. Phoneme
107. Teacher Marvin makes sure that his stu- C. Grapheme
dents acquire not only linguistic compe- D. Homonym
tence, but also sociolinguistic, discourse,
and strategic competence. 113. How many types of communicative com-
petence?
A. audioligualism
A. 3
B. direct approach
B. 4
C. Communicative
C. 2
D. comprehension-based D. 5
108. When was Communicative Language 114. Language learning theory which focuses
Teaching found? on the inner mental activities.
A. 1906s A. Behaviorism
B. 1950s B. Cognitivism
C. 1960s C. Humanism
D. 1970s D. Constructivism

115. The method developed by Georgi A. comprehension-based

Lozanov is called B. reading approach
A. Silent Way C. grammar translation
B. Suggestopedia D. communicative
C. CPR
121. This language learning theory refers to
D. TPR the idea that learners construct knowl-
edge for themselves.
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116. What is the teacher’s role in Communica-
tive Language Teaching? A. Behaviorism
A. Guide B. Cognitivism
B. Participant C. Humanistic
C. Researcher and Learner D. Constructivism
D. All of the above 122. Using command to get learners to move
in the classroom is found in
117. The following languages gradually re-
placed Latin due to political changes in Eu- A. Silent Way
rope during the Renaissance (14th-17th B. Total Physical response
century) EXCEPT:
C. Suggestopedia
A. French
B. English
123. Total Physical Response teaching
C. Italian
method needs
D. Spanish
A. teacher to be silent
118. Which one is not an activity used in CLT? B. music in classroom
answer choices
C. direct action in the class
A. Giving and obeying commands
D. repetition of grammar rules
B. Role plays
124. In this approach, grammatical structure
C. Language games
and learning of vocabulary is less priori-
D. Scrambled sentences tized since the most target is communica-
tion.
119. The method was originally known as
Army Method. A. Task-based approach
A. Direct Method B. Communicative Approach
B. Audiolingual Method C. Audio-lingualism method
C. Silent Method D. Communicative Language Teaching
D. Grammar Translation method 125. is the technique that enables stu-

dents to express their personal views
120. In this approach, reading comprehen- freely.
sion is the only language skill emphasized.
Only the grammar useful for reading com- A. Focused task
prehension is used. B. Opinion-gap task

C. Input-providing task 131. The characteristic(s) of TBLT is(are)

D. none of above A. relevant

B. authentic
126. Grammatical structures and vocabulary
are taught in isolation C. meaningful
A. Grammar-Translation D. all of the above
B. Audio-Lingual 132. According to Nunan, humanistic ap-
C. Communicative Language Teaching proach to language teaching has a belief
(CLT) in the primacy of . . . within the learning
process.
D. Community Language Learning
A. rote learning
127. Which method teaches language through B. affective & emotional factors
physical activity?
C. meaningful learning
A. TPR
D. drills
B. Suggestopedia
C. Silent Way 133. In this approach, spoken language is pri-
mary. All language material is practiced
D. Community Language Learning orally on a given situation before being
presented in other forms.
128. Any of wide variety of exercises, activi-
ties, or tasks used in the language class- A. audiolingualism
room for realizing lesson objective. B. oral-situational
A. Method C. direct approach
B. Approach D. affective-humanistic
C. Technique
134. The over-learning of patterns through
D. Syllabus choral repetition and drilling is the key to
learning a target language.
129. An activity that involves listening to a
text, taking notes and reconstructing the A. Grammar-Translation
text is called B. Direct Method (Berlitz)
A. dictation C. Audiolingual Method
B. dictogloss D. none of above
C. diction analysis 135. There is heavy emphasis on written work
D. none of above to the virtual exclusion of oral produc-
tions
130. What does TPR mean?
A. Grammar-Translation
A. Technique Physical Response
B. Audio-Lingual
B. Total Physically Response
C. Total Physical Response D. Communicative language teaching
D. Teaching Practice Race (CLT)

136. This is a behaviourist theory and related 141. To a group of teenage elementary learn-
to pseudoscience. ers:‘Use scientific lexical terms to define
these words.’
A. Suggestopedia
A. Language too formal/informal
B. The Audio Lingual Method
B. Language not well graded
C. The Grammar Translation Method
C. Language not well sequenced
D. none of above
D. Language not clearly tells what to do
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137. . What is a good example of an activity 142. These are the principle of CLT, except
within the CLT method?
A. Dialogue sessions A. Focused on accuracy over fluency
B. Role play B. Develop communicative competence
C. Anything structured around the inter- C. Learner centered attitude
est and ages of the students D. Meaningful communication
D. All of the above 143. Researcher who did not propose method-
ological history of language teaching.
138. This method sees language as a com-
plex of grammatical rules which are to be A. Jack Richards
learned one at a time in a set order. B. Edward Anthony
A. Suggestopedia C. Theodore Rodgers
B. Audio-lingual D. Betty Azar
C. The structural approach 144. This method began in Britain in the
1960s. It was used to replace the earlier
D. none of above
structural method, called Situational Lan-
139. “I walk to the door. I touch the handle. guage Teaching
I open the door” would be an example of A. Communicative Language Teaching
B. Grammar translation
A. The Series Method C. Grammar Translation Method
B. The Grammar-Translation Method D. none of above
C. The Direct Method 145. What area of language is being focused
D. The Natural Method on in TBLT?
A. Meaning of language
140. It is a teacher’s personal style or a trick
B. Vocabulary
to accomplish the task of teaching. This
concept refers to C. Pronunciation
A. teaching approach D. none of above
B. teaching method 146. Learners are directed toward unre-

hearsed language performance in the tar-
C. teaching technique
get language. Authentic materials and
D. teaching strategy real-life situations are included.

A. Direct Method (Berlitz) B. Mentor

B. Audiolingual Method C. Guide

C. Communicative Language Teaching D. Director
D. none of above 152. Which of the following is considered as a
147. One of the draw backs of Grammar communicative activity?
Translation Method is A. No teacher intervention
A. It focuses on learning English through B. No communicative desire
translation
C. Form not content
B. It advocates more on structure
D. Materials control
C. It develops writing skill
153. Learning according to Cognitivism is
D. The ESL learners rarely develop speak-
characterized by the following features,
ing skill
EXCEPT
148. Finish the sentence. The primary func- A. active
tion of language is
B. constructive
A. to allow for the learning of grammar.
C. cumulative
B. to engage in mathematics.
D. rote
C. to allow interaction and writing.
154. Input-providing task is made with the re-
D. to allow interaction and communica-
ceptive skills of listening and
tion.
A. Speaking
149. From 17th to 19th century, Latin gram-
B. Reading
mar was taught through the following
methods EXCEPT C. Writing
A. translation D. none of above
B. rote learning of grammar rules 155. What is the teacher’s role in Communica-
C. grammar is taught inductively tive Language Teaching?A. ParticipantB.
Researcher and LearnerC. Guide
D. study of conjugations
A. Participant
150. It is an oral-based approach to drill stu-
B. Researcher and Learner
dents in the use of grammatical sentence
patterns. C. Guide
A. Grammar translation Method D. none of above
B. The Audio-lingual Method 156. What is the role of the student in Commu-
C. Direct Method nicative Language Teaching?
D. TPR Method A. Silent observer
151. Which one is the role of the Teacher in B. There is no student role in CLT.
CLT? C. Speaker and negotiator
A. Authority D. None of the above.

8.3 Language Learning 304
157. In which of the following methods trans- 159. The followings are examples of positive
lation is not allowed reinforcement EXCEPT . . .
A. Grammar Translation Method A. a verbal praise
B. Communicative Approach B. a feeling of increased accomplishment
C. Total Physical Response Method
D. Direct Method C. a good grade
D. a mock
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158. Data:What did he *intended to say? She
did not *wanted to learn English.I *goed 160. Interpersonal relationship between the
shopping yesterday. These data are exam- students in the class is important in X. X
ples of . . . is
A. simplification errors A. Community Language Learning
B. transfer errors B. Total Physical Response
C. overgeneralization errors C. The Silent Way
D. induced errors D. Suggestopedia
8.3 Language Learning

1. What are the three categories of pro- 4. Learner’s L1 creates both facilitating and
cesses involved in the list of strategies? interfering effects on learning.
A. Cognitive, Social, Affective A. Extrinsic Motivation
B. Social, Psychological, Cognitive B. Language Ego
C. Racial, Cognitive, Musical C. Native Language Effect
D. Cognitive, Effective, Social
D. Automaticity
2. Why is it important to take breaks when
you study? 5. The theory of purposive behaviourism is
postulated by
A. Studying all day and all night can be tir-
ing and It can help you to focused in your A. Skinner
studies. B. Pavlov
B. To skip the studies
C. Tolman
C. To stay in a long free time
D. none of above
D. none of above
6. Learners are driven to perform by a
3. The optimal age for learning a new lan-
promise of positive reinforcement.
guage is
A. 10-16 years old. A. Native Language Effect
B. 18-25 years old. B. Communicative Competence

C. 69-420 years old. C. Language Ego
D. 3-10 years old. D. Anticipation of Rewards

7. What is the main skill focused in Commu- 12. The history of the use of computing tech-
nity Language Learning Method? nology in educational sector was dated
back to

A. Listening
B. Speaking A. 1930s
C. Writing B. 1940s
D. Reading C. 1970s
D. 1980s
8. Before the Wave Model was suggested,
the spread of languages was compared to 13. The following are typical themes of Struc-
what? turalism and Behaviorism except,
A. An ocean A. description
B. A school B. scientific method
C. A family C. observable performance
D. A family tree D. generative linguistics
9. It is the process and learning curve 14. the language learning opportunities of di-
of skills by which a child acquires lan- alogues may offer:
guage, learn to produce and comprehend A. show learners how spoken English
speech. sounds
A. Language Aquisition B. provide samples of new vocabulary
B. Learning Acquisition C. give grammar practice
C. Pre-linguistic stage D. everything are correct
D. Babbling stage
15. Where is the list of strategies from?
10. “You should go to the doctor” instead of A. Manchester
“Go to the doctor” when talking to your
boss is an example of B. Oxford
A. Pragmatic competence C. Cambridge
B. Morphological competence D. Liverpool
C. Syntactic competence 16. How many types of discourse
11. The phonological system of a language B. 8
refers to C. 7
A. The articulation of syllables, words, D. 5
and other utterances
17. Operant conditioning is when the interven-
B. The identification of phonetic symbols. tion is like
A. an environment we do not ask for
C. The sounds of a language and how
they function to convey linguistic meaning. B. an environment we are involved to
C. an environment we are okay with

18. When study new language should you get 23. “A change in human disposition or capabil-
enough sleep ity that persists over a period of time and
A. True is not simply ascribable to processes of
growth.”
B. False
A. Robert Gagne
C. Not given
B. Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner
D. none of above
C. Richard E. Mayer
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19. Learners enjoy manipulating various
D. Albert Einstein
teaching materials while learning a lan-
guage. They love what’s known as hands-
24. What conquest occurred in England that
on work. What type of learning style is
led to French being adopted by the higher
it?
classes?
A. auditory
A. Roman Conquest
B. tactile
B. Normal Conquest
C. extravert
C. Norman Conquest
D. visual
D. Some invasion not documented but it
20. The maturation of social and cognitive un- happened!
derstanding over to
25. How many type of motivations are there?
A. 4-8 age
A. 1
B. 9-12 age
C. 5-12 age B. 3
D. 12-22 age C. 2
D. 4
21. What were the instruments used to collect
data? 26. Proposed the Cognitive theory of Lan-
A. Self-report questionnaire and Inter- guage development.
view sheets A. Jean Piaget
B. Self-report questionnaire-video inter-
B. BF Skinner
views
C. Noam Chomsky
C. Face to face interviews and question-
naires D. Edward Thorndike
D. Interview sheets and on-line surveys
27. It is a complex process of discovery, col-
22. What factors influence a student’s second laboration, and inquiry facilitated by lan-
language acquisition? guage.
A. Native language proficiency A. Education

B. Cultural background B. Learning
C. Prior Schooling C. Language
D. All of the above D. Principle

28. Learning a new language can be fragile B. Hockett

and defensive to some learners.
C. Chen

A. Language Ego
D. Kachru
B. Automaticity
C. Interlanguage 34. A definition for language learning strate-
gies is:
D. Meaningful Learning
A. Songs that help to learn English
29. The following are factors that affect the
B. Strategies to win a job in the USA
Stages of Language Acquisition for ELLs,
except. . . C. Set of actions that work to improve the
process of teach and learn english
A. Age
B. Setting D. English classes every day
C. Immersion Level 35. This is a fundamental truth or proposition

D. Technology that serves as the foundation for a system
of belief or behavior or for a chain of rea-
30. Complete the collocation with the correct soning
verb someone’s advice
A. Principle
A. do
B. Language
B. take
C. Learning
C. speak
D. Logic
D. none of above
36. Dr. Adams suggests that students
31. What approach does CLL method obeys?
A. Behaviorism A. Have realistic learning goals.
B. Humanism B. Interact with native speakers.

C. Cognitivism C. Travel overseas.
D. Social D. Live abroad.
32. Students enjoy seeing the words and the 37. L1and L2 are compared and examined to-
letters in front of them. Also, they en- gether to be able to predict learning diffi-
joy making language connections through culties in hypothesis
flashcards or photographs. What type of
A. interlanguage
learning style is it?
B. critical period
A. auditory
B. tactile C. contrastive analysis
C. extravert D. natural order
D. visual 38. What does pragmatic competence refer

to?
33. Who developed the theory of ‘Reflection-
ism & Determinism’ A. Knowledge of form
A. Sapir-Whorf B. Knowledge of language use

C. Knowledge of the conditions and use 44. Instruction must aim at organizational,
of language according to various pur- pragmatic, and strategic competence as
poses. well as pronunciation, intonation, and
D. none of above stress.
39. What does not belongs to memory? A. Interactive Teaching
A. Creating mental linkages B. Communicative Competence

B. Applying images and sounds C. Meaningful Learning
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C. Reviewing well D. Anticipation of Reward
D. Analysing and reasoning
45. A brain is like a black box means
40. When the teacher drills a student to pre-
pare UN, she does A. Its colour is black
A. Reinforcement B. It is empty until it is filled in
B. Reconceptualisation C. It is full of memory
C. Redirection
D. none of above
D. none of above
41. the maturation of social and cognitive un- 46. Language learning is a complex set of
derstandings over the age range has feedback from teachers, peers, and self.
implications for foreign language use and A. Interactive Teaching
learning.
B. Interlanguage
A. 5-12
C. Automaticity
B. 2-5
C. 3-5 D. Meaningful Learning
D. 1-5
47. The time frame where in Cognitive Psy-
42. as in the example “The team is practicing chology was created
now at the moment” error occurs A. 1700s and 1800s
A. addition
B. 1960s & 1970s
B. misanalysis
C. Early 1900s & 1940s & 1950s
C. overextension
D. overgeneralization D. 1980s, 1990s & early 2000
43. Learners are being physically active while 48. Mary is failed in an exam. She then tried
learning English and they like to move everything to learn better until she suc-
around while learning. What type of learn- ceed. This is called as..
ing style is it?
A. Trials and errors
A. kinesthetic
B. Operant conditioning
B. tactile
C. extravert C. Classical conditioing
D. visual D. none of above

49. It is composed of interrelated and rule- sound produced by human beings to ex-
governed symbol systems; it is also a so- press their ideas, emotions, thoughts, de-
cial and uniquely human means of rep- sires and feelings.

resenting, exploring, and communicating
A. Aristotle
meaning.
B. Bloomfield
A. Education
C. Sapir
B. Language
C. Learning D. Saussure
D. Principle 55. how many demands and support of task-

as-plan
50. Factors are abbreviated as?
A. 5
A. SRAD
B. 6
B. SARD
C. 7
C. SADR
D. none of above D. 4
51. to make up a new word means 56. Why is using pen and paper to study better
than using language apps?
A. coinage
A. help the brain make connections and
B. approximation
remember more.
C. circumlocution
B. help to eat more
D. none of above
C. get new style
52. In this stage, children begins to connect D. none of above
two words together, perhaps three or four
at a time. 57. The principal method of human communi-
A. One-word stage cation, consisting of words used in a struc-
tured and conventional way and conveyed
B. Teow-word stage by speech, writing, or gesture.
C. Telegraphic stage
A. Language
D. Later Multi-word stage
B. Language Acquisition
53. Which strategies do students reward C. First Language Acquisition
themselves and find their own mood in
learning? D. Learning
A. Affective strategies 58. means an utterance that belongs nei-

B. Ambivert ther L1 nor L2.
C. Compensatory strategies A. contrastive analysis
D. Visual B. u shaped learning
C. interlanguage
54. Speech is the representation of the expe-
rience of the mind. Language is a speech D. none of above

59. Investment world through experiencing things and re-

A. Discovery flecting on those experiences.
A. Constructivism
B. education
B. Behaviorism
C. INVESTMENT
C. Functionalism
D. to improve
D. Structuralism
60. Those are the benefit of software Tools,
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except: 65. A set of rules that generates an endless
variety of sentences that are considered
A. -improved productivity-improved grammatically correct and no sentences
accuracy-improved appearance that aren’t.
B. improved appearanceimproved skill A. Generative Linguistics
C. improved appearance-improved curi- B. Universal Grammar
ousity
C. Language Acquisition
D. All correct
D. Structural Linguistics
61. When the dog was given a blown whistle, 66. We need peaceful somewhere
his saliva did not come out. This is the ex-
periment of A. misordering
A. Skinner B. misanalysis
C. substition
B. Tolman
D. underextension
C. Pavlov
D. none of above 67. What should teacher do?
A. Correct utterances of learners
62. ONE OF THESE IS NOT THE DEFINITION
OF CULTURE B. Let student do their task with help
A. Culture is a way of life. C. Teach them all the lesson

D. none of above
B. Culture is the foundation of communi-
cation. 68. example of discourse contrasted with
C. Culture is a social science. text?
D. none of above A. paragraphs
B. book
63. How is the evaluation done in Community
Language Learning Method? C. articles
A. Through integrative tests. D. shopping list
B. Through oral tests. 69. This theory uses the idea that children
are born with very little cognitive abilities,
C. Through writing tests.
meaning that they are not able to recog-
D. Through Listening tests. nize and process very much information.
64. The students’ role is to construct their A. Functional

own understanding and knowledge of the B. Nativist

C. Behavioristic 75. He believes that language acquisition

D. Cognitive like any other behavior can be observed,
rather than trying to explain the mental

70. One of Recent Developement in Software systems underlying these types of behav-
Tools is Web Based Collaboration Tools, it iors.
includes A. Noam Chomsky
A. Ms wordMs Excel B. Leonard Bloomfield
B. google doc C. B.F. Skinner
C. google classroom D. Lev Vygotsky
D. google meet
76. What is mainactivity of stage 5:Language
71. would help Dr. Adams in his own analysis?
study. A. Look at grammar
A. Moving around while learning. B. Look at idea students have written
B. Listening and discussing ideas. C. Look at only vocab
C. Reading books and magazines. D. none of above
D. Cooking while reading.
77. This stage is significantly longer, occur-
72. When you want to say the word cardigan ring between nine and eighteen months
but you dont know and describe it like it old. During this phase, the infant begins to
has long sleeves and looks like a sweater learn and speak single words like “mama
and dada”.
A. circumlocution A. Holophrastic
B. approximation B. Pre-talking
C. coinage C. Babbling
D. none of above D. Multiword
73. All are functions of language except: 78. It explains the commonality of how chil-
dren acquire language by learning rules in
A. Representational
L1 which are presumed to be universal
B. Heuristic
A. First Language Acquisition
C. Imaginative
B. Universal Grammar
D. Functional
C. Second Language Acquisition
74. is the ability to adapt strategy use D. Language Acquisition Device
without rigidity to conform to unfamiliar or
unexpected moments in SFL learning. VIDEO What isn’t learning style?
A. Metacognitive strategies A. visual leasrning
B. Strategic competences B. auditory learning
C. Cognitive flexibility C. cognitive learning
D. none of above D. kinesthetic learning

79. Classical conditioning is when the inter- 84. Which theory focusses on influences from
vention is different language forms that come into
contact with English?
A. like a promise
A. Lexical Gaps
B. like an atmosphere
B. Substratum
C. like a reinforcement
C. S-Curve
D. none of above
D. Functional theory
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80. Complete the collocation with the correct
verb time to do something 85. occur when something has been
around for a long time and that thing
A. have
has been repeated over and over, which
B. practise makes it hard to get rid of.
C. do A. mistakes
D. none of above B. errors
81. When you use not exact word but a simi- C. fossilization
lar word for something occurs e.g for D. interlingual error
nudge to use touch
86. if someone adds “-s” to the word “man”
A. coinage
to make it plural this would be an error of
B. approximation
C. circumlocution A. overextension
D. none of above B. overgeneralization
82. What type of learning strategies are these C. misordering

techniques; reasoning, analysis, note- D. underextension
taking, summarizing, synthesizing, outlin-
ing, and reorganizing information to de- 87. This is NOT a characteristic of Language
velop stronger schemas? Acquisition:
A. cognitive A. natural
B. metacognitive B. subconscious
C. social C. focuses on communication
D. affective D. technical
83. Which of these authors conceptualize 88. It is an intentional process that pre-
the metacognitive, cognitive and so- supposes teaching, and traditionally the
cio/affective strategies? teacher controls the pace.
A. Oxford (2011) A. Language Acquisition
B. O’Malley and Oxford B. Language Learning
C. O’Malley and Chamot C. Language Education
D. Oxford (1990) D. Language Teaching

VIDEO Left hemisphere is responsible for: 93. Complete the collocation with the correct
A. logical thinking and linear processing verb an advantage

of informatiom A. make
B. Abstract thinking B. have
C. coordination learning by senses C. do
89. It is an approach to language develop- 94. Mary is failed in an exam. Her father told
ment that focuses on the relationship be- a story about his childhood that when he
tween language form and social mean- was failed, he kept doing until he succeed.
ing. This case is included as
A. Functional A. trials and errors
B. Nativist B. classical conditioning
C. Behavioristic C. operant conditioning
D. Cognitive D. none of above
90. According to Krashen, is a subcon-
95. A merit of Community Language learning
scious process while learning is con-
Method is?
scious.
A. Improves translation skills
A. acquisition
B. Promotes learner autonomy
B. learning
C. Get students to think in the target lan-
C. communication
guage.
D. production
D. Improves ability to read literary texts.
verb fun 96. Which of the following word describes the
role of the teacher?
A. get
A. Expert
B. begin
B. Client
C. have
C. Counsellor
D. none of above
D. Host
92. Why it is important to advance in language
learning strategies? 97. Mary is failed in an exam, she observed
that most of her friends are also failed.
A. Categorize strategies and instruction
She felt okay and she would do better next
to train strategies
time. This case is called as
B. Have more students and create more
A. classical conditioning
English books
B. operant conditioning
C. Handle more languages and be
smarter C. trials and errors

98. Feeling objects in the environment and C. to understand a topic

sensing words through a writing instru- D. to communicate or interact with oth-
ment are appropriate for learners ers.
A. visual
B. reflective
verb a language
C. tactile
A. get
D. auditory
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B. hold
99. “The process of gaining knowledge and ex-
C. speak
pertise.”
D. none of above
A. George Seimens
B. M. Driscoll 105. Which language skills develop first?
C. Malcolm Knowles A. There is no standard progression.
D. Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer B. Listening and Speaking
100. Who is the author of the Universal Gram- C. Reading and Writing
mar theory? D. Listening must develop first
A. Noam Chomsky
106. This occurs from around six to eight
B. Stephen Krashen
months old. In this phase, the infant be-
C. Stephen Gardner gins to “babble” and makes noises and
D. B.F. Skinner syllables that are not yet words.
A. Babbling
101. What is one way to be an active lerner?
A. To have more information. B. Multiword
B. Help someone else learn the informa- C. Pre-talking

tion. D. Telegraphic
C. To help people
107. Instructional material that contains
D. none of above meaning to the students is known as
102. A limitation of Community Language A. Target language
Learning Method is, B. Language Objectives
A. Learners find the learning process
C. Scaffolding
stressful
D. Comprehensible Input
B. Cannot be used with large classes.
C. Time consuming 108. Realistic context is a must in language
D. Can be used with students from differ- learning.
ent backgrounds A. Meaningful learning
103. What is the function of a language? B. Communicative competence
A. to show our culture C. Native language effect
B. to use symbols and gestures D. Automaticity

109. What is the language area focused in 114. Also known as holophrastic stage
Community Language Learning Method? A. One-word stage

A. Grammar points. B. Two-word stage
B. Comprehension. C. Telegraphic stage
C. Spellings. D. Later Multiword stage
D. Verbs.
115. When the rats pressed the lever, the
110. The idea of political correctness is often food came out. This means that
closely linked to which theory? A. The food stimulates the rats to gain it.
A. Reflectionism & Determinism
B. Cultural Transmission B. The rats initiates himself to eat the
food.
C. The Wave Model
C. This is an experiment by Tolman.
D. Lexical Gaps
D. none of above
111. Children sometimes use words as ;
116. In which discipline, do learners tend to
“fish, “ for instance, may refer to a vari-
use strategies more frequently?
ety of animals in the water as well as to
fish A. Engineering
A. underextension B. Sciences
B. overextension C. Drama
C. overgeneralization D. English
D. addition 117. According to Oxford (1990), How many
types of learning strategies can be di-
112. Language is a system of conventional or vided?
written symbols through which human be-
ings as members of social groups and par- A. 2
ticipants in its culture, communicate. B. 3
A. Bloomfield C. 4
B. Encyclopedia Britannica D. 6
C. Patanjali 118. “Low motivation, low self-confidence &
D. Wardhaugh high anxiety” are elements of which fac-
tor?
113. A supposition or a system of ideas in-
A. Affective Factors
tended to explain something, especially
one based on general principles indepen- B. Focus on Teaching Method
dent of the thing to be explained. C. The Age Factor
A. Definition D. The X Factor
B. Foundation
119. Purposive conditioning is when
C. Principle A. the response is not merely physical, it
D. Theory must have something to do in the brain

B. the response stimulates the brain 125. Complete the collocation with the correct
verb some work
C. the stimulus makes reinforcement
A. practise
D. none of above
B. do
120. what is the term ‘discourse’ in the litera-
C. hold
ture.
D. none of above
A. discourse is contrasted with text
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B. discourse is contrasted with sentence 126. The followings are behaviourist’ schol-
ars, , , ,
C. both are correct A. Ruang Guru, Skinner, Pavlov
D. none of above B. Watson, Tolman, Chomsky
C. Throndike, Watson, Pavlov
121. How many factors doesCLL have?
D. none of above
A. 5
B. 4 127. “Learning is the process by which the
individuals acquire various habits, knowl-
C. 6
edge, and attitudes that are necessary to
D. none of above meet the demands of life, in general.”
A. Kurt Lewin
122. What is the 1ststage?
B. G.D. Boaz
A. Reflection
C. Woodworth
B. Discussion
D. Cronbach
C. Transcription
D. none of above 128. Learners love to learn through sound.
They immensely enjoy interacting and con-
123. Can you name some immersive technolo- versing with others. They do not need to
gies? see words in writing. What type of learn-
A. VR ing style is it?
B. AR A. auditory
C. MR B. tactile
D. All C. extravert
D. visual
124. Daisy lives in a slum dog environment.
When she was 17, she used to speak bad 129. “I want” is an example of what function
words. This case is called as of language?
A. reinforcement A. Personal
B. continuous classical conditioning B. Regulatory
C. trials and errors C. Interactional
D. none of above D. Instrumental

130. What is the nature of teacher-student in- 135. The following names are advocates of
teraction in CLL method? Structuralism and Behaviorism except
for:

A. Student-centered
A. Leonard Bloomfield
B. Teacher-Centered
B. Charles Hockett
C. Teacher-Student Centered
C. Edward Sapir
D. Neither of the above
D. Lev Vygotsky
131. How many stages doesCLL have?
136. This stage takes place from two to three
A. 4
years old. Over time, children begin to
B. 5 expand their two-word phrases into short
C. 3 sentences.
D. none of above A. Telegraphic

B. Holophrastic
132. What is activity of stage 1:Reflection?
C. Two-word
A. Sit around a recorder and quietly think
about the tape D. Babbling
B. Imitate the teacher’s way of speaking 137. Language is the inherent capability of the
C. Sit around and discuss about the topic native speakers to understand and form
grammatical sentences
D. none of above A. Bloch and Trager

B. Derbyshire
133. Student:I have came to school late
yesterday.Teacher:Sorry?Choose the way C. Lyons
the teacher uses to correct students mis- D. Noam Chomsky
take.
138. A prominent technique in the Community
A. metalinguistic feedback
Language Learning Method is,
B. clarification request
A. Transcriptions
C. explicit correction
B. memorization
D. echo
C. Role plays
134. A limitation of Community Language D. Simulations
Learning Method is
139. How many factors are there in second
A. Learners find the learning process
language learning?
stressful.
A. 2
B. Time consuming.
B. 6
C. Cannot be used with large classes.
C. 4
D. Can be used with students from differ-
ent backgrounds. D. 5

140. Past the age of three, in this final 145. What is one ofprinciples?
stage of language acquisition, children A. Mistake will not be corrected
now learn to use functional morphemes
to change the meaning of the words they B. Students ask in L1 teacher answer in
use. L2
A. Multiword C. Only use L2
B. Two-word D. none of above
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C. Telegraphic 146. What is activity of stage 3:Discussion?
D. Holophrastic A. Students discuss how they think about
conversation they’ve listened.
141. In auditory learning style, student B. Student begin understanding the con-
prefers to versation in L1
A. Learn by hearing C. Student begin understanding the con-
B. Learn by getting information in context versation in target language
D. none of above
C. Learn by doing
147. It is a claim from language acquisition re-
D. Learn by looking outward search proposed by Noam Chomsky in the
1960s which enables an infant to acquire
142. You want to create a class and inviting and produce language.
students which one do you choose?
A. L1
A. Edmodo
B. LAD
B. A Blog C. L2
C. Facebook D. ELL
D. WhatsApp
148. It gave birth to stimulus-response (S-R)
143. Observational Conditioning belongs to theory which strives to explain L2 learn-
ing as the acquisition of a set of structures
A. Classical conditioning through the process of habit formation
B. Operant conditioning A. Behaviorism
C. Classical conditioning that is continu- B. Functionalism
ous
C. Structuralism
D. none of above
D. Constructivisim
144. This is NOT a characteristic of Language 149. What does grammatical competence con-
Learning: sist of? (Chomsky)
A. Formal instruction A. Knowledge of form
B. Priority on the spoken B. Knowledge of speech contexts
C. Translation and use of L1 included C. Appropriate use of the language
D. Focuses on form D. Communicative purposes

150. According to the results of the research, 155. The disappearance of words like walk-
which category of strategies is used more man and vinyl can be linked to what the-
frequently? ory?

A. Affective A. Random Fluctuation
B. Compensation B. Lexical Gaps
C. Effective C. S-Curve
D. Reflectionism
D. Social
156. Core of child’s language acquisition
151. A great tool to teach a foreign language
is A. Pre-linguistic stage
B. Babbling stage
A. to expose students to cultural knowl-
edge. C. One-word stage
B. to teach them 6 hours a day D. Two-word stage
C. to take them on a trip to USA 157. Which author categorizes language
D. none of above learning strategies as direct and indi-
rect?
152. “Students do well in exams but face diffi- A. Stern
culty when using the language in everyday B. Rubin
conversation”is the drawback of which
method? C. O’Malley
A. The Grammar-Translation Method D. Oxford
B. The Audiolingual Method 158. How does the teacher respond to the stu-
dents’ error?
C. Communicative Approaches
A. Does not address the error.
D. The wrong method
B. Criticize the student.
153. Which categories of strategies are asso- C. Repeat the incorrect part.
ciated with high levels of proficiency?
D. Repeat the incorrect part then discuss
A. Affective and Psychological the error.
B. Cognitive and Metacognitive 159. Success in learning is dependent on the
C. Speaking and writing time and effort learners spend in master-
ing the language learning process.
D. Psychological and Affective
A. Intrinsic Motivation
154. Which learning strategies involved stu- B. Interactive Teaching
dents using their body movement?
C. Automaticity
A. Social strategies D. Strategic Investment
B. Affective strategies
160. Which one is NOT a possible use of a wiki
C. Cognitive strategies in a language class?
D. Memory-related strategies A. Peer review

B. Peer reflections 166. The use of double negatives in the En-

C. Collaborative writing glish language can be linked to what the-
ory?
D. Teaching Grammar
A. Lexical Gaps
161. A statement of the exact meaning of a
word, B. Random Fluctuation
A. Theory C. Substratum
D. Functional
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B. Foundation
C. Principle
167. Charles Curran was a
D. Definition
A. Psychologist and couching specialist
162. Student:I have came to school late yes-
B. Specialist in counselling and professor
terday.Teacher:you to school yester-
of psychology
day. Choose the way the teacher uses to
correct students mistake. C. Linguist and professor of pshychiatry
A. echo correction D. Speciallist in petting dogs who were
B. elicitation good boys.
C. recast
168. Learning a language also involves learn-
D. clarification request ing about cultural values and ways of
thinking.
163. What is teacher role?
A. Client A. Interactive Teaching
B. Instructor B. Automaticity
C. Lecturer C. Interlanguage
D. none of above D. Language-culture Connection
164. It is an unconscious process that does
169. “Learning is a process by which behavior
not presuppose teaching, and the child
is originated or change through practice
controls the pace
or training.”
A. Language Acquisition
A. Cronbach
B. Language Learning
B. Kingsley and Garry
C. Language Education
C. Pavlov, Ivan
D. Language Teaching
D. C. E. Skinner
165. Do you how to design an Online test?
A. Yes, I can do in an LMS. 170. The S-curve model is coined by who?
B. No, I have no idea. A. Hockett
C. Yes, I can but I have never done it. B. Sapir-Whorf
D. Yes, I can and I have done it. I know
C. Bailey
a number of good applications and plat-
forms. D. Chen

171. What belogs to Affective strategies? B. Tolman

A. Receiving and sending messages C. Watson

strategies D. none of above
B. Overcoming limitations in speaking
and writing 177. Success in learning the language re-
quires that the learners believe that they
C. Arranging and planning your learning
can learn it.
D. Encouraging yourself
A. Self-confidence
172. One factor that ties into language bor- B. Automaticity
rowing/adaptation (substratum theory)
C. Risk-taking
is:
D. Language Ego
A. Nutella sandwich
B. Immigration 178. What is activity of stage 4:Transcrip-
tion?
C. Popularity
D. Illness A. Students record what they heard on pa-
per after several time they listen to the ra-
173. as an example of , a child begins to dio
use the verb ‘spoke’, subsequently, she B. Students take note information at 1st
may use instead ‘speaked’, and, later and time.
finally, she again uses ‘spoke’.
C. Students hear and brainstorming idea.
A. u-shaped learning
B. interlanguage D. none of above
C. contrastive analysis
179. Taking a gamble and experimenting with
D. none of above language slightly beyond what is known
174. Who developed CLL? promotes language growth and develop-
ment.
A. Charles A.Curran
A. Language Development
B. Dr, David Mash
B. Risk-taking
C. Willis
C. Self-confidence
D. none of above
D. Language Ego
175. how many Analysis Of A Task In Action in
learning the spoken language 180. How are the students evaluated?
A. 4 A. Written test.
B. 2 B. No mode of evaluation indicated.
C. 5 C. MUET
D. 6 D. English 1119
176. Which scholar has an experiment with a 181. Those are recent developement in ICT
toddler? Language Learning, except
A. Albert A. Handphone and tablets

B. Software Suits 187. Those are the tools that support teach-
C. Online Notebook ers to evaluate the understanding of stu-
dents’ skill by using game, except
D. Novel and short story
A. Kahoot!
182. What type of learning style where stu- B. Quizziz!
dents pay attention to the little details,
they can fail to see the big picture when C. Kahoot and Quizziz
learning a language. D. Mobile Legend
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A. Analytic 188. WHAT IS LINGUISTIC?
B. Holistic A. It’s a way of life.
C. Introvert B. It’s a system of symbols.
D. Auditory C. It’s a scientific study of a language.
183. of the most supports tools in ICT are D. none of above
A. Ms officeMs WordMs Power point 189. What is the main tool that cannot be re-
B. Spread SheetWord ProcessingPresen- placed in CLL method?
tation System A. Whiteboard
C. Spread SheetMs ExcelMs Word B. Recorder
D. Presentation SystemPPTMs Power C. Paper
Point D. Chairs
184. What are Institutionally supported tech- 190. Complete the collocation with the correct
nologies? verb an effort
A. Open technologies A. make
B. Learning Management System (LMS) B. give
C. Ordinary classes but with computers C. take
D. None D. none of above
185. is an interactive process of construct- 191. What are the two metalinguistics differ-
ing meaning that involves producing and ences?
receiving and processing information.
A. Orthography and Grammar
A. speaking
B. Orthography and Writing
B. writing
C. Grammar and Pronunciation
C. reading D. All of the above
D. listening
192. ONE OF THESE USED TO BE A DEFINI-
186. The word ‘recitation’ is an example of TION OF THE WORD “NICE” IN THE 15TH
what type of lexical gap? CENTURY
A. Morphological A. NICE
B. Phonological B. PLEASING
C. Semantic C. AGREEABLE
D. none of above D. FOOLISH

193. There are children in that hospital here. C. To improve their language skills.
is an example of error
D. none of above

A. addition
B. misordering 199. What can be more effective than operant
C. substitution conditioning?
D. overgeneralization A. Classical conditioning
194. Trials and errors is the idea from? B. Operant conditioning
A. Throndike C. Continuous classical conditioning
B. Tolman
D. none of above
C. Watson
D. none of above 200. Colloquialisms and slang going in, and
then out of use, is an example of what the-
195. It is the primary method of human com- ory?
munication
A. S-Curve
A. Language
B. Learning B. Wave Model
C. Linguistics C. Functional Theory
D. Literature D. Cultural Transmission
196. Which one can you use to create a per-
sonal homepage? 201. Following Chen’s theory, language
change can be measured on a chart and
A. webs.com
would create a curve that bears similarity
B. sites.google.com to which letter
C. wix.com A. V
D. All are possible
B. W
197. What type of learning style where stu-
C. U
dents focus on the big picture, all that a
language stands for, and they want to con- D. S
vey an idea, not worry about the impecca-
ble grammar behind it. 202. What are the techniques used in CLL
A. Analytic method?
B. Holistic A. Transcription and Recording Students’
C. Introvert Conversation
D. Auditory B. Transcription and Reflection
198. Why millions of students around the C. Recording Students’ Conversation and
world go to school and college. Human Computer
A. To have some food. D. Reflective Listening and Human Com-
B. To go school and college puter

203. “Language is a human expression that 208. Which of the following two disciplines
is produced by different speech organs was not part of the research?
of human beings. Through speech or- A. Building and Sciences
gans, humans produced several expres-
B. English and Maths
sions which are converted to language.”
C. Engineering and Computer Studies
A. Derbishire
D. Medicine and Philosophy
B. Wardhaugh
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C. Lyons
verb a conversation
D. Patanjali A. speak
204. This research was done on: B. do
A. Japanese learners C. hold
D. none of above
B. Learners from Taiwan.
C. Hong Kong chinese learners 210. Complete the collocation with the correct
verb your skills
D. Children from China.
A. have
205. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests: B. get
A. Language is developed through partic- C. practise
ipating D. none of above
B. Language develops to conform with 211. How much percentage takes discussion
mistakes in society in learning process according to learning
C. Language we use shapes our perspec- pyramid?
tive of the world A. 30%
D. Language follows trends B. 40%
C. 70%
206. This is NOT a characteristic of very Young
Learners: D. 50%
A. They are motivated by songs, chants & 212. What does NOT belongs to types of com-
rhymes munication?
B. They stay focused for long periods A. nonverbal communication
C. They enjoy playing games B. visual communication
C. verbal communication
D. They feel motivated by stories
D. fragrance communication
207. “The language that the learner is ex-
posed to”is the definition of
verb progress
A. Input. A. do
B. Output. B. make
C. Grammatical Competence. C. have
D. Fossilization. D. none of above

8.4 Contrastive Analysis 325
214. One of the most important points of lan- B. Coming up with a study plan.
guage learning is
C. Attending a good language program.

A. Exposing oneself to the target culture.
D. Learning grammar
8.4 Contrastive Analysis

1. David is particularly fond of cooking, and C. sudden
he often cooks really delicious meals. D. last
A. particularly
6. The company representative sold to the
B. fond of
manager sewing machine for forty dol-
C. often cooks lars.
D. really A. The company
2. was the person influencing the rise of B. to the manager

C.A. in language learning. C. sewing
A. Robert Patterson D. for
B. Robert Lado
7. There were so much people trying to leave
C. Robert Atkinson the burning building that the police had a
D. none of above great deal of trouble controlling them.
A. There were
3. These televisions are quite popular in Eu-
rope, but those ones are not. B. much
A. quite C. the burning
B. in D. that
C. those ones 8. Sandra has not rarely missed a play or
D. are concert since she was seventeen years
old.
4. There was a very interesting news on the
A. not rarely
television this morning about the earth-
quake in Japan. B. a play
A. There was C. since
B. a D. was seventeen years old
C. on the television 9. The price of crude oil used to be a great
D. about deal lower than now, wasn’t it?
A. price of
5. That bridge was hitting by a large ship dur-
ing a sudden storm last week. B. great
A. was hitting C. lower
B. during D. wasn’t it

10. John lived in New York since 1990 to 2017, 16. Which of these refers to sentence struc-
but he is now living in Detroit. ture?
A. in A. Syntax
B. Since B. Lexicology
C. is now living C. Phraseology
D. in D. Collocation
11. Structuralism and Behaviorism are the 17. Harvey seldom pays his bills on time, and
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influencing C.A. his brother does too.
A. Approaches A. pays his bills
B. Theories B. on time
C. Statements C. his
D. none of above D. does too
12. Which of these is not related to con- 18. Jim was upset last night because he had
strastive linguistics? to do too many homeworks
A. conversation analysis A. upset
B. language differentiation B. because

C. had to do
C. error analysis
D. many homeworks
D. language assessment
19. How many kinds of language transfer are
13. The taxi driver told the man to don’t allow
in C.A?
his disobedient son to hang out the win-
dow. A. 1
A. taxi driver B. 2
B. told the man C. 3
C. to don’t allow D. 4
D. to hang out 20. The following are levels of linguistics
structure at which constrastive descrip-
14. The progress made in space travel for the tion can occur except
early 90s is remarkable.
A. Speech sounds
A. progress
B. Dialects
B. made
C. Written symbols
C. in space
D. Word meanings
D. for
21. Contrastive Analysis (C.A) is one of in
15. Who first studied contrastive analysis? SLA
A. Robert Lado A. Problems
B. Noam Chomsky B. Approaches
C. Robert Dixon C. Thoughts
D. John Dewey D. none of above

22. Which is the best mechanism of doing C. I have no idea.

C.A? D. Please, skip this question:(

A. Reinforcement-Stimulus-Response
28. Having been beaten by the police for strik-
B. Response-Stimulus-Reinforcement
ing an officer, the man will cry out in pain.
C. Stimulus-Response-Reinforcement
A. by
D. none of above
B. for striking an officer
23. “to get efficiency in L2 teaching and test- C. the man
ing” is the of conducting C.A in SLA
D. will cry out
A. Comparison
B. Way 29. This table is not study enough to support a
television, and that one probably isn’t nei-
C. Goal ther.
D. none of above
A. not sturdy enough
24. The governor has not decided how to deal B. to support
with the new problems already.
C. that one
A. The
D. neither
B. has
C. how to deal with 30. The main office of the factory can be found
in Mapple Street in New York City.
D. already
A. The main
25. There is some scissors in the desk drawer B. be found
in the bedroom if you need them.
C. in Mapple
A. is
D. in New York
B. some scissors
C. in 31. George is not enough intelligent to pass
this economics business class without
D. in
help.
26. The fire began in the fifth floor of the hotel, A. enough intelligent
but it soon spread to adjacent floors.
B. to pass
A. in
C. this
B. fifth
D. Economics business
C. of
D. soon spread 32. Which of these is NOT a differential de-
scription in which constrastive linguistics
27. languages (English) and lenguajes (Span- can be applied?
ish) have same function in using “-s” to
A. Sounds
indicate plurality.This shows language
transfer. B. Registers
A. Positive C. Style
B. Negative D. Dialects

33. Mrs. Tina bought last week a new sports B. about

car; however, she has yet to learn how to C. increase
operate the manual gear-shift.
D. in rent for
A. last week a new sports car;
B. however, 37. When an university formulates new regu-
lations, it must relay its decision to the stu-
C. she has yet to learn dents and faculty.
D. how to operate A. an
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34. The following are levels of linguistics B. new reguulations
structure at which contrastive compari- C. it
son can occur EXCEPT
D. must relay its
A. Sound system
38. The practice of C.A. refers to
B. Dialects
A. finding errors from the language the
C. Morphological system
students study
D. Word meanings
B. reading and writing the language the
35. Because there are less members present students concern
tonight than there were last night, we C. imitating and repeating the language
must wait until the next meeting to vote. the students hear.
A. less D. none of above
B. than
39. The professor had already given the home-
C. were work assignment when he had remem-
D. to vote bered that Monday was a holiday.
A. the homework assignment
36. The Board of Realtors doesn’t have any in-
formations about the increase in rent for B. had remembered
this area. C. Monday
A. informations D. was

9. Translation,Lexicography,
Computational Linguistics, Stylistics,
Language and Media
9.1 Applied Linguistics
1. Which of these is a question that theoreti- 4. Variation within the language of a single
cal linguistics seeks to answer? speaker is called.
A. What is morphosyntax? A. Inter-speech-speaking avariation.
B. How does language relate to other B. In-speaker variation.
cognitive processes? C. Variation of the speakers.
C. What is a dialect? D. Intraspeaker variation.
D. none of above
5. Is it your use of the language?
2. The idea that an author should explore a A. Dialect
problem area of language use is the main B. Sociolect
idea of:
C. Idiolect
A. Educational Linguistics
D. Chronolect
B. Applied Linguistics
6. What are two areas of study that applied
C. Language Teaching
linguistics greatly focuses on?
D. none of above A. Language education and forensic lin-
guistics
3. What did Messick conceptualize to the
valid use of tests in specific contexts? B. Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
A. The importance of social prejudice
C. Morphology and Syntax
B. The importance of social mordeniza-
tion D. Pragmatics and Lexicography
C. The importance of social consequence 7. The study of linguistic development
through time is?
D. none of above A. Threorical Linguistics

9.1 Applied Linguistics 330
B. Applied Linguistics 13. What is essential for the study of general

C. Diachronic Linguistics applied linguistics?
D. none of above A. Knowing Noam Chomsky’s work.

B. To study theoretical linguistics.
8. The meaning of a word that changes
through time is? C. Mostly understand sociology.
D. Study what historical language is.
A. Semantic change
14. What is universal linguistics?
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B. Grammatical change
C. Phonological change A. A format the used to write essays.
D. none of above B. Properties that all, or many languages
have in common.
9. Which metaphor of technology and lan-
C. Rules in the languages.
guage learning implies the computer is
stimulating as a teacher in some way? D. none of above
A. Computer as teacher 15. What are the 5 language variations?
B. Computer as trainer A. Pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, mi-
C. Computer as tutor nority dialects and native varieties.
D. none of above B. Pidgins, spain, creole, french, base
lenguaje.
10. What word best describes the scope of ap- C. American English, British English,
plied linguistics? Canada English, Australian English.
A. Monodisciplinary D. none of above
B. Limited
16. Why the term ‘Applied Linguistics’ was
C. Interdisciplinary misleading in the Journal Language Learn-
D. Evolutionary ing, in 1948?
A. it excluded many activities of linguis-
11. The source of Applied Linguistics is
tics and other relevant disciplines.
A. linguistics.
B. It focused on translation and speech
B. Linguistics, translation, and speech therapy.
therapy.
C. It was not cited.
C. Linguistics and other disciplines such
D. none of above
as psychology, sociology, or education.
D. none of above 17. What do linguists need to investigate to
understand the rating’s impact on test va-
12. What was the early distinct types of lan- lidity better?
guage testing validity that was related to A. The issue of human versus AL rating
trait or ability being tested?
B. The issue of human versus automated
A. Criterion rating
B. Construct C. The issue of computer versus manual
C. Content rating

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18. How many versions do the IELTS test con- 23. . What brought a vigorous interest in
sist of? the cultural component of language study
from 1970s to 1990s?

A. The one and only version:Academic
tests A. The social turn in applied linguistics
B. Two versions:General and Academic B. The political turn in applied linguistics
tests C. The international turn in applied lin-
C. Three versions:Academic, General guistics
and Expert tests D. none of above
D. none of above
24. What learning environments typically in-
19. What is theoretical linguistics concerned volve a distance learning component but
with? also traditional face-to-face teaching?
A. Development of theories about gen- A. “Hybrid” or “Blended” teaching
eral aspects of languages. B. “Hybrid” or “Integrated” teaching
B. To analyze what syntax is. C. “Integrated” or “Combined” teaching
C. To create new languages.
20. What is the vast majority of language test- 25. Messick argued that validity could only be
ing? established through a systematically pre-
sented evidence from
A. International Language Testing Sys-
tems A. unique sources
B. Tests of English as a Foreign Language B. a variety of sources
C. some particular confidential sources
C. Classroom based from the local authorities
21. Whose point of view was that “Applied Lin- 26. The main focus of Applied Linguistics is
guistics was about language teaching”?
A. Corder A. Theory
B. Kaplan B. Practice
C. Spolky C. The relationship between theory and
practice
D. Bloomfield
D. none of above
22. According to the linguists, what has been
a serious concern of applied linguistics? 27. Which metaphor of technology and lan-
guage learning puts the focus on indi-
A. The racist bias of language vidual learner capabilities and cognitive
B. The sexist bias of language goals and needs?
C. The cultural bias of language A. Computer as savvy-assistant
D. none of above B. Computer as tool

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C. Computer as technology 31. Certain social groups aiming for amore

D. none of above prestigious form of language than they
would naturally use, in formal situations.
28. Successive bilingualism is A. Dialect.
A. dominate the mother tongue B. Hypercorrection.
B. you learn a language first C. Covert prestige.
C. It is valued more than other D. none of above
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D. none of above 32. Language variation is considered impor-
tant in idiom teaching because
29. Receptive Bilingualism is when
A. It helps to speak.
A. you learn at the same time
B. Contributes to cultural values.
B. you learn a language first
C. Helps pronunciation.
C. Dominate the mother tongue
D. none of above
D. none of above
33. when older people and younger people
30. What did big C culture and little c culture use language differently. What social fac-
stand for before 1970s? tor is it?
A. Literature and Anthropology A. Audience.
B. Literature and anti-consumerism B. Identity.
C. Literature and archeology C. Age.
9.2 Lexicography
1. Dictionaries which describe different ob- C. translation
jects, phenomena, people and give some D. specialized
data about them are called:
A. encyclopedic 3. According to classification of dictionaries
“Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms” is:
B. general explanatory
A. specialized
C. general translation
B. encyclopedic
D. specialized
C. general explanatory
2. Dictionaries which include dictionaries of D. general translation
synonyms, antonyms, collocations, word-
frequency, neologisms, slang, pronounc- 4. According to classification of dictionaries
ing, etymological, phrase logical and oth- “The Concise Oxford Dictionary” is:
ers are called: A. encyclopedic
A. encyclopedic B. general explanatory
B. general C. general translation

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D. specialized A. 1504
B. 1604
5. The American lexicography began to de-

velop much later, at the end of the . C. 1704
A. 15th century D. 1804
B. 16th century 7. The art of compiling, writing and editing
C. 17th century dictionaries belongs to:
D. 18th century A. theoretical lexicography
B. practical lexicography
6. The first unilingual dictionary explaining
difficult words appeared in , the author C. general lexicology
was Robert Cawdrey, a schoolmaster. D. special lexicology
9.3 LexicoLOGY
1. Antonyms are words different in 5. Your perfume has a wonderful
A. denotational meaning A. cent
B. connotational meaning B. sent
C. part-of-speech meaning C. percent
D. none of above D. scent
6. What word below would mean one color?

2. Lexicology has close ties with
A. monochromatic
A. phonetics and grammar
B. unicycle
B. phonetics, grammar, history of a lan-
guage, stylistics and sociolinguistics C. polychromatic
C. literature, history and sociology D. monoscript
D. none of above 7. The denotative component of meaning is
3. Hyponymy is the semantic relation of

A. the emotive charge and stylistic refer-
A. inclusion ence
B. exclusion B. the leading component in the semantic
structure of a word
C. similarity
C. the grammatical component of a word
D. none of above
4. The words HEIR-AIR refer to D. none of above

A. homographs 8. what is the root for cede
B. homonyms proper A. to
C. homophones B. go
D. none of above C. do

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D. bro 15. The suffix ‘-ity’ found in the words ‘cru-

elty’, ‘oddity’, ‘purity’, ‘stupidity’ is a
9. What does the word vacant mean?
A. denominal suffix
A. empty
B. deverbal suffix
B. around
C. noun-forming suffix
C. space D. none of above
D. heat
16. Where is the conceptual content of a word
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10. Examples of cutlery:spoon, fork, knife- expressed?
What is ‘cutlery’? A. in denotative meaning
A. a hyponym B. in expressive meaning
B. a hypernym C. in connotative meaning
C. a homonym D. none of above
D. a meronym 17. If a pretest means the test before the
lessons, what does posttest mean?
11. What would anthropology mean?
A. The test during the lessons
A. study of animals
B. Test in the middle of the lesson
B. study of mankind
C. To test before the lessons
C. study of fears
D. The test after the lessons
D. study of life
18. By their graphic and sound-form there
12. Homographs are words identical in may be
A. spelling A. full and partial homonyms
B. sound-form B. grammatical, lexical and lexico-
C. meaning grammatical homonyms
C. perfect homonyms, homophones and
D. none of above
homographs
13. How many grams are in a kilogram? D. none of above
A. 100 19. Which word part below means govern-
B. 1000 ment?
C. 2 A. cracy
D. 10 B. soph
C. vert
14. are used in everyday conversational
speech both by cultivated and uneducated D. luc
people of all age groups. 20. What would the word artist mean?
A. Colloquial words A. making art
B. Literary words B. able to do art
C. Professional words C. to sell art
D. Slang words D. someone who does art

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21. WORDS:“pretty” and “ugly” are C. All correct

A. SYNONYMS D. none of above

B. ANTONYMS 27. The basic unit of a language resulting from
C. HOMONYMS the association of a particular meaning
D. SUFFIXES with a particular group of sounds capable
of a particular grammatical employment is
22. A semi-free morpheme is called
A. one that coincides with the stem or a A. vocabulary
word-form B. morpheme
B. one which occurs only as a constituent C. word
part of a word
D. sound
C. one, which can function in a mor-
phemic sequence both as an affix and as 28. what is the root for believe
a free
A. centri
D. none of above
B. bread
23. Choose the correct phonetic transcription C. cred
of May
D. center
A. (mei)
29. Lexicology is
B. (meI)
A. the study of words
C. (mey)
B. the study of origin of language and
D. none of above
words
24. What would the word monotone mean? C. the study of mental processes and lan-
A. lots of different tones guage
B. one tone D. the study of relations between the
word and its referent
C. under tone
D. between tones 30. Words like ‘ballet’, ‘buffet’, ‘bouquet’ are
25. What is the way of naming for the word

A. completely assimilated
ICT?
B. unassimilated
A. sound imitation
C. translated
B. word formation
D. partially assimilated
C. borrowing
D. semantic derivation 31. A hemisphere means
26. When you feel a vibration in the throat. It A. half of the earth
is a phonetic sound: B. all of the earth
A. Voiced C. part of the earth
B. Unvoiced D. 1000 earths

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32. The object of lexicology is 38. A BIcycle has wheels.

A. lexical units A. 4
B. phonemes B. 10
C. methods of lexical units’ investigation C. 2
D. none of above D. 3
33. Antonyms are 39. Lexicology deals with
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A. words that are similar. A. Grammatical employment of linguistic
units
B. words that are opposite.
B. Different properties of words and the
C. words that sound the same. vocabulary of a language
D. happy places that we go to C. Morphological structure of words only
34. The general study of words and vocabu-
lary, irrespective of the specific features D. Various lexical means and stylistic de-
of any particular language, is known as vices
40. What does the word part script mean?
A. General Lexicology A. change
B. Special Lexicology B. under
C. Specific Lexicology C. write
D. Historical Lexicology D. between
35. The pairs of words ‘travel-travail’, ‘fire- 41. The morphemes ‘-ness’, ‘-less’, ‘dis-’ are
pyre’, ‘catch-chase’ are called singled out as
A. shortened words A. bound
B. synonyms B. semi-bound
C. blends C. free
D. etymological doublets D. none of above
36. Lunar phases would be phases of the 42. One of the best-known Southern dialects
is
A. sun
A. Cockney
B. matter
B. American
C. temperature C. Midland
D. moon D. RP
37. What does the word biology mean? 43. what is the root for:To
A. study of life A. ab
B. study of rocks B. ad
C. book written about a person C. av
D. change in life D. al

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44. The prefix ‘fore-’ in the word ‘foreknowl- D. none of above

edge’ means
50. The grammatical context means the gram-

A. before matical structure going with the or
B. placed at the front homonymous word.
C. inside, within A. lexical
D. none of above B. grammatical
45. Which meaning of the polysemantic adjec- C. polysemantic
tive ‘ barbaric’ is its primary meaning D. syntactic
A. very cruel and violent 51. What does a pretest mean?
B. primitive; unsophisticated A. test before the lessons
C. uncivilized and uncultured B. test at the end
D. foreign C. test during the lessons
46. A word taked from another language and D. to lead the test
modified according to the standards of En-
glish is called 52. LEXIS means
A. a native word A. learning
B. a borrowing B. phrase
C. an etymological unit C. vocabulary
D. a proper word D. none of above
47. The antonyms ‘happy’-‘sad’ refer to 53. ‘Kick the bucket’ is euphemistic word for
A. contraries
A. Death
B. contradictories
B. Play
C. incompatibles
C. Apologize
D. none of above
D. Beg
48. what is the root for centri
54. The language to which the word may be
A. go traced is called the
B. to A. origin of borrowing
C. center B. source of borrowing
D. none of above C. main language
49. A lexeme is D. second language
A. all the grammatical meanings of a mor- 55. what is root means one hundred
pheme
A. money
B. all the lexical meanings inherent in a
morpheme B. cent
C. all the morphological variants of a mor- C. centri
pheme D. center

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56. Polysemy is 62. ‘trout’, ‘carp’, ‘salmon’ are the of ‘fish’

A. the ability of a word to have different A. homonyms
variants of pronunciation
B. hypernyms
B. the ability of a word to convey several
C. meronyms
concepts
C. the ability of a word to have variants D. hyponyms
of spelling
63. The word ANTIPATHY consists of
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D. none of above
A. the root, free morpheme + the root,
57. a expert of lexicology is bound morpheme
A. ponolog B. the affixational, bound morpheme +
B. lexicolog the combining form which is a bound root
C. lexicography
C. the affixational, bound morpheme +
D. none of above the root, free morpheme
58. Which word part below will make an ab- D. none of above
stract noun?
64. science studying about shape, history,
A. -ation
and meaning of vocabulary is
B. -ity
A. lexicography
C. dec-
B. semantic
D. -ful
C. lexicology
59. The word ‘globesity’ is a(n)
D. none of above
A. shortening
B. blend 65. A partial or total conformation to the pho-
netical, graphical and morphological stan-
C. acronym dards of the English language and its se-
D. none of above mantic system is called
60. Semantic studies A. borrowing
A. meaning B. transmition
B. sound-form C. assimilation
C. morphemes D. transformation
D. none of above 66. Which branch of lexicology deals with the
61. The transfer of name based on the associ- meaning of words and other linguistic
ation of similarity is called units?
A. metaphor A. Onomasiology
B. metonymy B. Semasiology
C. simile C. Lexical Morphology

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67. How many main types of linguistic con- 73. Choose the characteristic of sound pho-
texts are there? netic (m)

A. 1 A. Voiced, Labial and Nasal
B. 2 B. Unvoiced, Fricative and Velar
C. 3 C. All answer are incorrect
68. If you put something in chronological or- 74. Conversion is

der, how are you ordering it? A. the formation of a new word through
A. ABC order the change in its paradigm
B. no order B. cases of phonetic identity of words
C. time order C. the formation of nouns from verbs
D. matching in pairs D. none of above
69. are word-groups that cannot be made 75. What is the function of words?
in the process of speech they exist in the A. to denote things
language as ready-made units. B. to denote concepts
A. Phraseologisms C. both
B. Neologisms D. none of above
C. Archaisms
76. It was very difficult to understand what he
D. Homonyms was saying about the noise of the traffic
70. what is the meaning of miss A. pick up
A. send B. make up
B. always C. turn out
C. hear D. make out
D. take 77. What is the subject matter of word-
formation?
71. ‘door’, ‘window’, ‘wall’ are of ‘house’
A. a morpheme
A. co-hyponyms
B. derivational affixes and models
B. hyponyms
C. the morphemic structure of a word
C. hypernyms and the ways of word building
D. meronyms D. none of above
72. What would the word trainee mean? 78. what does Dict
A. someone committing a crime A. believe
B. like training B. say
C. all training C. write
D. someone who trains D. none of above

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79. The words ‘heir’-‘air’ refer to 85. The object of Historical Lexicology is
A. homographs A. the study of the correlation between
B. homonyms proper the vocabularies of two languages
C. homophones B. the study of the evolution of the vocab-
D. none of above ulary
C. the study of vocabulary at a certain
80. How many sides would a polygon have ac-
time of its development
cording to the meaning?
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A. many sides D. none of above
B. one side
86. what is the root for new
C. two sides
A. new
D. no sides
B. neo
81. What does the word part inter mean?
C. meow
A. under
D. go
B. after
C. between 87. What word part matches fus?
D. against A. change
82. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics deal- B. blend
ing with
C. write
A. grammatical employment of linguistic
units D. skin
B. various lexical means and stylistic de-
88. The word ‘antipathy’ consists of
vices
C. different properties of words and the A. the root, free morpheme + the root,
vocabulary of a language bound morpheme
D. none of above B. the affixational, bound morpheme +
the combining form which is a bound root
83. What would narration mean?
A. the action of narrating C. the affixational, bound morpheme +
B. not narrating the root, free morpheme
C. full of narration D. none of above
D. the wrong narration
89. Which language enriched English after
84. synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, hy- 1066?
ponyms, meronyms etc. are called:
A. Latin
A. collocations
B. connotations B. Russian
C. sense relations C. Greek

D. semantic fields D. French

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90. Which word part below means body or 96. Which word part below would mean to
mass? turn upside down?

A. derm A. lucid
B. able B. sophisticated
C. de C. adage
D. some D. invert
91. Which of the four spheres below refers to 97. Which word part below means tending to
the ground/Earth? or quality?
A. biosphere A. vic
B. hydrosphere B. -ee
C. geosphere C. pos
D. atmosphere D. -ive
92. what is the meaning of scrib 98. By their activity in the language affixes are
A. write classified into
B. take A. recurrent and unique
C. go B. prefixes and suffixes
D. to C. productive and non-productive

D. none of above
93. WORDS:“hi” and “high” are
A. HOMONYMS 99. What does the word part-al mean?
B. ANTONYMS A. like; relating to
C. HOMOGRAPHS B. fault
D. HOMOPHONES C. person who

D. can be done
94. Synonyms are
A. words that are similar. 100. what does the root biblio means
B. words that are opposite. A. book
C. words that sound alike. B. bible
D. happy places that we go to. C. fiction

D. reading
95. A word which belongs to the original En-
glish word stock is called 101. Which word part below means truth?
A. a borrowed word A. mut
B. a borrowing B. ver
C. a native word C. derm
D. an original word D. inter

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102. The word has 108. What will a preposition tell?

A. phonological and semantic aspects A. the type of object
B. phonological and syntactic aspects B. the place of the object
C. phonological, semantic, syntactic as- C. the crime committed
pects D. person who did it
D. none of above
109. What would the word fixable mean?
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103. what is the division of lexicology A. able to be fixed
A. 3 B. not fixing it
B. 4 C. to make the fix
C. 2 D. someone who fixes
D. none of above 110. What would an audio cord provide for a
104. Phonics is teaching the of the let- tv?
ters. A. video
A. order B. picture
B. beginning C. sound
C. writing D. internet
D. sounds 111. Which level of a game would be for new
players?
105. Which pair of antonyms is NOT an exam-
ple of directional opposition? A. invert
A. long/short B. novice
B. rise/fall C. generation
C. enter/leave D. phonics
D. come/go 112. The queen will (rein, rain, reign) for-
ever?
106. Which is NO the types of synonyms?
A. rein
A. Semantic-stylistic
B. rain
B. Phraseological
C. reign
C. Territorial
D. none of above
D. Borrowing
113. Define the type of word-formation of the
107. The three-dimensional analysis of sound following words ‘smog’, ‘brunch’, ‘fruice’,
n is: ‘flush’, ‘swellegant’
A. Alveolar, nasal and voiced A. back-formation
B. Velar, nasals and voiced B. blending
C. Bilabial, nasal and voiced C. shortening

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114. What does lexicology study? 120. Allomorphs are

A. phonemes A. morpheme variants

B. words B. differences in the pronunciation of a
morpheme
C. sentences
C. differences in the morphological struc-
D. students
ture of a morpheme
115. What does the word illegal mean? D. none of above
A. not legal
121. The study and the description of the
B. kind of legal words and vocabulary of a particular lan-
C. after legal guage is called
D. legally say A. Specific Lexicology

B. General Lexicology
116. Synonyms are words
C. Historical Lexicology
A. similar in the denotational meaning
D. Special Lexicology
B. similar in the connotational meaning
122. what does the root Anthoropo means
C. different in the denotational meaning
A. people
D. none of above
B. children
117. Back-formation is a way of word-building
C. man
when a new word is formed by
D. woman
A. dropping the final morpheme
B. dropping the initial sounds 123. There are the following types of shorten-
ing:
C. the imitation of different sounds
A. clippings, lexicalization, ellipsis, sub-
D. none of above stantivization
118. Which of the word parts below would I B. blending, ellipsis, acronyms, semantic
put at the end of a number? Specifically extension
to mean a numeral of 10. C. ellipsis, acronyms, blending, clipping
A. lol D. none of above
B. ty
124. What form of articulation does the / j /
C. sol sound belong to?
D. amb A. Plosive
119. If an owl is wise, which word part would B. Approximant
it choose? C. Affricate
A. soph D. Fricative
B. luc 125. What morphemes are singled out seman-
C. vert tically?
D. -age A. roots and affixes

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B. roots, affixes and inflexions 131. What would a dermatologist is a doctor

C. free, bound, and semi-bound who treats what?
D. none of above A. teeth

B. feet
126. Homophones are words which coincide
C. hands
in
D. skin
A. sound-form
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B. spelling 132. Internal structure of the word is
C. sound-form and spelling A. its morphological structure
D. none of above B. its semantic structure
C. its sound-form
127. Homophones are
D. none of above
A. words that sound the same, but have
different spelling, origins or meaning. 133. Two or more words identical in sound-
B. Can phone you at night. form but different in meaning, distribution
and (in many cases) origin are
C. can do your maths for you over the
phone A. antonyms
D. Words that are spelt the same, but B. homonyms
have different meanings. C. paronyms
128. The word GLOBESITY is a(n) D. none of above
A. shortening 134. ‘fine weather’ / ‘I had to pay a fine’-In

B. blend these phrases ‘fine’ is an example of:
C. acronym A. homophones
B. homographs
D. none of above
C. meronymy
129. Head-1) Part of the body 2) Person in
D. hyponymy
charge of an organisation.-This is an ex-
ample of: 135. What does the word part de mean?
A. homonymy A. away
B. hypernymy B. come
C. hyponymy C. body
D. polysemy D. skin
130. The literal meaning of the term ‘lexicol- 136. Which word below is a Scandinavian bor-
ogy’ is rowing?
A. the science of the word A. mother
B. language learning B. sport
C. the science of linguistics C. sky
D. word structure D. plum

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137. As a newspaper reporter, she always 143. Structurally morphemes are divided into
wanted to get information at first hand.

A. quickly A. productive and unproductive
B. slowly B. roots and affixes
C. directly C. free, bound and semi-bound
D. easily D. none of above
138. Pick the antonyms that are examples of 144. Lexicology is a branch of
contradictory contrast: A. Linguistics
A. fast-slow B. Language
B. master-servant C. Psycholinguistics
C. enter-leave D. Morphology
D. alive-dead 145. Indicate the word or phrase that is CLOS-

EST in meaning to:He was asked to ac-
139. Many compound verbs formed by” “ count for his presence at the scene of
became synonyms to simple verbs. crime.
A. adjective A. complain
B. verb B. exchange
C. prepositional adverbs C. explain
D. adverb D. arrange
140. An omnivore will eat 146. Homonyms are

A. all types of food A. Words that are spelt the same, but
have different meanings.
B. one type of food
B. Words that sound the same, but their
C. in a position for food meanings, spelling and origins are differ-
D. no types of food ent
C. Happy places that we go to
141. What word part below means over?
D. the meanings of words.
A. post
147. what does the root logy means
B. non
A. math
C. super
B. social studies
D. extra
C. ela
142. What does convertible mean? D. science
A. can be converted
148. How many main groups of dialects are
B. all conversions there in GB?
C. person who converts A. 5
D. position to convert B. 6

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C. 4 B. incorrect
D. 3 C. both are true
149. Which word part below means light? D. none of above
A. soph 154. Choose the correct phonetic transcrip-
B. sol tion of needs.
C. luc A. ni:dz
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D. vert B. nidz
150. Words like ‘husband’, ‘sport’, ‘animal’ C. nIdz
are D. none of above
A. completely assimilated
155. Enemy/Foe, Damp/Wet, Appar-
B. unassimilated ent/Obvious are examples of:
C. translated A. Homonyms
D. partially assimilated
B. Antonyms
151. ‘teacher/student’ are: C. Synonyms
A. antonyms of contradictory contrast D. Perfect Synonyms
B. gradable antonyms
156. The language from which the loan word
C. converses was taken into English is called the
D. directional oppositions
A. second language
152. is a variety of a language which pre- B. source of borrowing
vails in a district, with local peculiarities of
C. original language
vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.
A. A dialect D. main language
B. a term 157. Find the synonyms of ‘labyrinth’ and

C. a slang ‘corn’ among the following homophones:
D. a metaphor A. reek / wreak
B. maze / maize
153. lexicology and lexicography are the
same C. shear / sheer
A. correct D. foul / fowl
9.4 Computational Linguistics

1. What is Python? D. block based programming language
A. text based programming language
2. What symbol is used in python to assign
B. word processor values to a variable?
C. spreadsheet A. equals =

9.5 Language and Media 347
B. plus + A. print
C. forward slash /
B. input

D. asterisk *
C. output
3. What is the word (command) used to dis-
play numbers and text on the screen? D. command
9.5 Language and Media

1. In which decade did television broadcast C. An unicorn
officially start? D. Someone who posts too much informa-
A. 1920 tion
B. 1930 6. What do these statistics relate to? 51.9%
C. 1940 and 48.1%
D. 1950 A. The amount of people who like/dislike
The Guardian
2. When deciding whom to interview, what
B. The ratio of men to women readers of
is NOT the key point that you need to con-
The guardian
sider?
C. The vote to leave the EU
A. Their expertise
D. The ratio of left to right wing readers
B. Their ability to explain things
C. Their position and views towards the 7. We read
topic A. WE READ
D. Their social status B. he is reading
3. What is denotation? C. she is reading
A. The way music is written D. I read
B. The literal meaning 8. Plural of means

C. the suggested meaning A. advertisements
D. brief notes B. information
C. means
4. Using a statement made by a third party
to confront your interviewee belongs to: D. Newspapers
A. Suggestive question 9. According to Young & Rubicam’s Life Ma-
B. Indirect question trix Fun/Atics are:
C. Yes/no question A. Digital, free-spirited, creative young
singles
D. Interpreting question
B. Vital, active, altruistic seniors
5. What’s an oversharer? C. Aspirational, fun-seeking, active
A. A person that enjoys giving things young people
B. A dog D. Hard-driving, hard working couples

10. Which British entrepreneur supported 15. The type or category of a product is known
brexit? as ?
A. James Dyson A. format
B. Alan Sugar B. production
C. Richard Branson C. genre

D. synopsis
D. Rita Johnson
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16. Information density means
11. What does this definition refer to? “the el-
ements of medialanguage that usually oc- A. Trying to get too much information into
cur in particular forms” any sentence
B. 1 or 2 concepts per sentence and no
A. connotation
longer than 20 words, except in unusual
B. codes and conventions circumstances
C. genre C. An absence of expression of personal
viewpoints and opinions
D. intertextuality
D. none of above
12. What is the type of interview that aims to
17. One traditional form of an interview is the
find out facts and figures about a certain
so-called:
topic?
A. Pyramid structure
A. Opinion interview
B. Diamond-shaped structure
B. Information interview
C. Funnel structure
C. Research interview
D. None of above
D. Personality interview
18. Events that have only just happened, are
13. What are the three elements of a code of current, ongoing, or are about to happen
communication? are newsworthy
A. secret key, cipher and message A. Unexpectedness
B. signs, rules and shared understanding B. Relevance

C. Proximity
C. letters, words and sentences D. Recency
D. newspapers, magazines and radio 19. Genres-Repetition & Difference-Hybridity
shows A. Levi-Strauss
14. This means categorising audiences based B. Barthes
on their personality C. Hall
A. Psychology D. Neale
B. Demographics 20. he reads
C. Two-step flow A. We read
D. Psychographics B. IS READING

C. she is reading 26. He listens to

D. I read A. We listen to

B. I listen to
21. The word Brexit is a neologism formed
through C. IS LISTENING TO
A. semantic extension D. She enjoys
B. eponyms 27. What is your name?
C. morphological adding blending A. My name ia Alex
D. borrowing B. I am from Jakarta
C. I like playing football
22. The form of question that only allows a
“yes”, “no” or “I don’t know” answer be- D. In Boarding School
longs to: 28. ILU means
A. Interpreting question A. I like you
B. Statement plus question B. I lose you
C. Closed question C. I let you
D. Open question D. I love you
23. Which of the following are considered 29. The media is still dominated by Western
technical stumbling blocks? attitudes that continue to ‘other’ people of
A. Test recording device, microphone and colour
the levels A. hooks
B. Check device batteries B. Gilroy
C. Check the recording after interview C. Hesmondhalgh
D. All above D. Jenkins
24. In Media & Information Language, It is 30. The biggest problem that critics have with
the generally accepted ways of doing the linear model is that
something A. it is designed for radio
A. Codes B. it is very old
B. Convention C. it is only about print media
C. Connotation D. it does not take into account interactiv-
ity
D. Denotation
31. Who created Reception Theory-the idea
25. Which is not included as a media conven- that audiences respond differently to the
tion? Theme, character, sound or script media depending on their experiences?
A. theme A. Stuart Hall
B. sound B. Blumler & Katz
C. character C. Joseph Campbell
D. script D. Tsvetan Todorov

32. Choose the factor referring to the degree C. Idioms

which a story contains the kinds of facts D. none of above
and figures
A. Facticity 38. When did the Wikimedia Foundation start
Wikipedia?
B. Superlativeness
A. 2000
C. Proximity
B. 2001
D. none of above
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C. 1999
33. Who conceptualizes the Semiotic Theory? D. 2003
A. Ronald Barghes
39. Denotation-Connotation-Signs-Codes
B. Ronald Barthes
A. Barthes
C. Donald Barthes
B. Levi-Strauss
D. Donald Barghes
C. Neale
34. What does “above the fold” mean? D. Baudrillard
A. Below the crease of a folded paper
40. Which DOES NOT belong to Symbolic Code
B. To the left hand side of the paper
A. Object
C. To the right hand side of the paper
B. Clothing
D. Above the crease of a folded paper
C. Colors
35. Media narratives are the product of cre- D. Framing
ative and institutional practices that rep-
resent ideas through media 41. This type of Media Code includes related
A. systems to sound. Background music, sound ef-
fects, and voice-overs are under this cat-
B. products egory
C. producers A. Technical Code
D. codes and conventions B. Symbolic Code
36. Social networks have enabled new modes C. Audio Code
of D. Written Code
A. Production
42. What’s the meaning of CUL8R?
B. Distribution
A. Colour
C. Consumption & Reception
B. Call you later
D. All of the above
C. See you later
37. A technique that favored by TV news script D. Call you tomorrow
writer to make the news interesting is the
use of: 43. Semiotics is
A. Synonym A. a collection of media
B. Affective languages B. a way to communicate

C. a way of talking 49. Which DOES NOT belong to Written Code

D. a way of studying the rules or codes A. Headlines

which link to form meanings
B. Captions
44. Which Country was Viktor Orban prime C. Bubble Speech
minister of?
D. Narrative
A. Italy
50. An unpopular product is not aired by me-
B. Spain
dia
C. Hungary
A. Want-regardingness
D. Japan
B. Interest
45. Hypodermic Needle Theory is a type of..? C. Exit
A. Active audience theory D. Exit and voice
B. Reception theory
51. Plural of newspaper
C. Passive audience theory
A. news
D. none of above
B. PAPERS
46. Social Media is C. themes
A. two-way “two-to-two” communication D. advertisements
B. one-way “one-to-many” communica- 52. What is the correct term for dividing audi-
tion ences into smaller groups?
C. two-way “one-to-one” communication A. Segregation
B. Segmentation
D. three-way “three-to-one” communica- C. Compartmentalising
tion
D. Division
47. The first stage or element of information
literacy. 53. Where do you from?
A. Determine sources of informaton. A. My father is Aji
B. Identify information needs. B. I am from Jakarta
C. Organize information. C. I am reading the book
D. Cite or search for information. D. I am watching movie
48. Advertisers extend and promote products 54. The media forms that we will study at the
& services online. beginning of next year is
A. Commercial opportunities A. Photography
B. Offline opportunities B. Film
C. Advertisement C. Podcast
D. Online opportunities D. Print

55. She listens to 61. Camera angle, lens choice, framing, shut-
A. We listen to ter speed, depth of field, lighting & expo-
sure, juxtaposition
B. I listen to
A. Symbolic codes
C. He listens
B. Written codes
D. she enjoys to
C. Media codes
56. I watch D. Technical codes
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. We are watching
62. A sign has two components:
B. She is watching
A. media and studies
C. I’m watching
B. tools and codes
D. He is watching
C. butterfly and colour
57. Media Language is composed of the fol-
D. signifier and signified
lowing EXCEPT for
A. Codes 63. Who created the telephone
B. Convention A. Samuel F.B. Morse
C. Narrative Structure B. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Audience C. G. Marconi
58. Are system of signs that when put to- D. Edwin Howard Armstrong
gether create meaning
64. Headlines, captions, speech bubbles,
A. Codes style
B. Convention A. Technical codes
C. Formats B. Symbolic codes
D. Narrative Structure C. Semiotic codes
59. Which one is a quality press newspaper? D. Written codes
A. The Sun 65. i read
B. The Times A. We read
C. Hello B. he is reading
D. The Thursday
C. she is reading
60. Stereotypes are created by dominant D. I’m reading
groups using media language to reduce
people to simple representations 66. When was the printed press invented?
A. Gilroy A. 14th century
B. van Zoonen B. 15th century
C. Hall C. 16th century
D. hooks D. 17th century

67. Which one is a popular press newspaper? 73. What is the ‘Niche’ of a blog?
A. The Guardian A. Types of blogs

B. Star B. Blog(blog) content
C. The Observer C. Blog(blog) platform
D. The Telegraph D. Blog Theme (Theme)
68. Plural of information 74. What should you do when you panic, lose
A. INFO track of what is being said?
B. themes A. Tell the interviewee to stop talking
C. Newspaper B. Ask a parachute question
D. channels C. Skip it and ask another question right
away
69. This type of Media Code includes camera
angles, sound and lighting and basically D. None of the options above
how technology is used to create meaning 75. What does the BBC owe its reputation to?
A. Technical Code A. The fact that it was the first broadcast-
B. Symbolic Code ing corporation in the UK.
C. Audio Code B. It was founded under constitutional
D. Written Code basis which binds it to be impartial.
C. The audience
70. What type of code is being used when
you play with different shots of a still and D. none of above
video camera?
76. Media has to be
A. Symbolic Code
A. easy to understand
B. Technical Code
B. complicated
C. Written Code
C. printed
D. none of above
D. short
71. These are systems of signs that when put
together create meaning. 77. Who created the radiotelegraph?
A. language A. Samuel F.B. Morse
B. conventions B. Alexander Graham Bell
C. codes C. G. Marconi
D. none of above D. Edwin Howard Armstrong
72. Audiences are now thought to exercise 78. How many steps are there in the interview
more agency, which is the capacity to process?
A. completely overpower A. 4
B. control B. 5
C. act and exert power C. 3
D. hide D. 2

79. surf internet 85. Binary oppositions-Structuralism

A. netizen A. Baudrillard
B. online B. Levi-Strauss
C. go online C. Barthes
D. tennis D. Neale
80. The audience has the power to choose 86. Events that are out of the ordinary, unpre-
dicted, or rare are more newsworthy than
NARAYAN CHANGDER
what kind of media they desire to con-
sume. routine, unsurprising events
A. Agenda-Setting Theory A. Relevance

B. Unambiguity
B. Semiotic Theory
C. Unexpectedness
C. Uses and Gratifications Theory
D. Consonance
D. Users and Gratifications Theory
87. Reducing subjectivity means
81. How many key news questions for an In-
troduction? A. Reducing emotionality, absence of af-
fective language
A. 3
B. An absence of colloquial
B. 4
C. Arousing emotions but not objectively
C. 5 informing the audience
82. The media is increasingly used by individ- 88. Is the study of signs & symbols which con-
uals to create their own identities veys literal and potential meanings.
A. Gauntlett A. Semiotics
B. Butler B. Symbiotics
C. Shirky C. Semantics
D. van Zoonen D. Statistics
83. Narratives have a basic structure 89. A connotation is

A. deeper meaning
A. Barthes
B. superfluous
B. Levi-Strauss
C. irrelevant
C. Curran & Seaton
D. exactly what you see
D. Todorov
90. Objects, setting, body language, clothing,
84. Which one should be avoided in TV news? color
A. Familiar and simple words A. Technical codes
B. Modifiers B. Symbolic codes
C. Dialects C. Semiotic codes
D. none of above D. Written codes

91. Group of consumers for whom media text 97. Men and women are still represented in
was constructed as well as anyone else the media to conform to set gender roles-
who is exposed to the text. women are objectified

A. Audience A. Gauntlett
B. Target Audience B. Hall
C. Producers C. van Zoonen
D. Stakehoders D. hooks
92. What’s textspeak? 98. Plural of newspaper
A. Reading a text out loud A. means

B. channels
B. Abbreviations and slang
C. the news
C. Debating about a text
D. NEWSPAPERS
D. Memes and gifs
99. The boundaries of the real world and the
93. What’s media? media are becoming increasingly blurred
A. Television, radio, cars. A. Gilroy
B. Netflix, Spotify, Tinder. B. Baudrillard
C. Television, radio, Internet. C. Gerbner
D. Films, books, photos. D. Barthes
94. When did the “golden age” of radio start? 100. social media
A. Between the two World Wars A. tablet
B. Before World War I B. social media
C. After World War II C. smart phone
D. none of above D. the Internet
95. Codes can be interpreted differently by 101. “You should only choose “state plus
the audience based on their social and cul- question” form if you are that the fact
tural influences. you are stating is correct:
A. Absolutely sure
A. True
B. Not sure
B. False
C. Unsure
C. Cannot be determined
D. Doubtful
D. none of above
102. According to the text:Wich one of this
96. Which DOES NOT belong to Audio Code skills can you learn from “Babble”?
A. Dialogue A. Litening
B. Sound Effect B. Reading
C. Body Language C. Writting
D. Music D. Speaking

103. Recipients of media products from cre- B. Voyeuristic pleasure

ators of media and information.
C. Cerebral pleasure
A. Audience
D. Catharsis
B. Codes
C. Conventions 109. the signified is
D. none of above A. the butterfly

B. the meaning of the sign
NARAYAN CHANGDER
104. This type of Media Code refers to the
case of letters, font, headlines, captions, C. the tree
speech bubbles, language style D. the grandpa of the sign
A. Technical Code
110. Hypodermic needle theory is a type of
B. Symbolic Code
?
C. Audio Code
A. Active audience theory
D. Written Code
B. Passive audience theory
105. They conceptualized the Agenda-Setting
C. Reception theory
Theory
D. none of above
A. Comb & Shaws
B. McCombs & Shaw 111. Which type of question below is consid-
C. Combs & McShaw ered a badly worded question?
D. Maxwell & Ronald A. Either/or question

B. Multiple questions
106. Who created the telegraph?
C. Both Either/or and multiple questions
A. Samuel F.B. Morse
B. Alexander Graham Bell D. None of the options above
C. G. Marconi 112. If you want to get additional information

D. Edwin Howard Armstrong that you will use for writing a report or a
commentary, what type of interview will
107. Which theory explains the role of opinion you conduct?
leaders in spreading messages through
A. Opinion interview
the media?
A. Two Step flow B. Statement interview
B. U & G C. Research interview

C. Morley’s theorem D. Information interview
D. Politics of the Living room 113. A signifier is
108. Which type of audience pleasure does A. a type of butterfly
somewhen get from solving a video game
B. the form of a sign
or watching a perfectly constructed narra-
tive? C. a type of cipher
A. Aesthetic pleasure D. a type of tree

114. One of the advantages of interview brief- 119. Gender is a social construct and can be
ing is that you and your interview partner described as a performance
get to know each other. Therefore, it can A. Hall

and reduce
B. Gauntlett
A. break the ice-nervousness
C. van Zoonen
B. create trust-pressure D. Butler
C. create respect-speed
120. The Guardian has mainly which political
D. none of above view?
115. This type of library is usually managed A. Liberal (extreme left)
by elementary and secondary schools that B. Conservative
contain more digital format references C. Labour
than print materials.
D. Green
A. Special Library
121. Plural of news
B. School Library
A. advertisements
C. City Library
B. channels
D. none of above
C. channel
116. One feature of language in TV news is D. NEWS
the objectivity that involves the use of ,
122. Feminism is a constant struggle against
which implies the occurrence of neutral,
a patriarchal society-other factors include
i.e. standard, pronunciation.
race & class
A. Neutral language
A. van Zoonen
B. Objective language B. hooks
C. Neutral and objective language C. Gilroy
D. none of above D. Butler
117. TV programs, photos, adverts, film, radio 123. Which DOES NOT belong to Technical
programs, web pages, etc. Code
A. Media codes A. Camera
B. Media languages B. Lighting
C. Media Texts C. Framing
D. Setting
D. Media adverts
124. Which word means ‘the meaning given to
118. What were pro Brexit campaigners ac- a media message by the person who made
cused of? it’
A. Arachnophobia A. Encoding
B. Claustrophobia B. Decoding
C. xenophobia C. Connoting
D. Tombolirism D. none of above

125. Singular of themes 131. Provides the products and services

needed by the audience
A. THEME
A. Audience
B. Newspaper
B. Target Audience
C. Information
C. Consumers
D. channel D. Stakeholders
126. Narrative refers to 132. What is the EU
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. the voiceover we hear in media texts A. Euro unlikeliest
B. the drama on screen B. European Union

C. Euro Uptowners
C. the story or plotline
D. Europe Unites
D. the origin of a piece of media
133. Plural of advertising
127. Singular of channels A. themes
A. the news B. Journals
B. channel C. information
C. Information D. ADS
D. themes 134. This type of Media Code refers to col-

ors, object, body language, clothing and
128. TV setting-Include the language, dress and
actions of characters knows as mise-en-
A. computer scene
B. TV A. Technical Code
C. Movie B. Audio Code
D. Telephone C. Symbolic Code
D. Written Code
129. Media productions develop out of that
which has come 135. Ideologies in society frame the nature,
form and of narratives
A. true
A. plot
B. out of space B. opening
C. before C. structure
D. after D. nature
130. What is a ‘polysemic’ sign or message? 136. What helps us to understand ambiguous
signs?
A. One that has many possible meanings
A. context
B. One that makes no sense B. jars
C. One that has only one clear meaning C. signifiers
D. none of above D. robots

137. We listen to C. Metonymy

A. WE LISTEN TO D. Antithesis

B. I listen to 143. “ is the deliberate use of overstate-
C. He listens ment or exaggeration to achieve empha-
D. She enjoys sis”.
A. Hyperbole
138. Construction of media forms includes
B. Simile
A. Codes & Conventions C. Personification
B. Structure and Technologies D. Metonymy
C. Production Phases including distribu- 144. I listen to
tion and marketing
A. We listen to
D. All of the above
B. I LISTEN TO
139. she reads C. He listens
A. We read D. She enjoys
B. he is reading
145. Media language is
C. is read
A. totally made up
D. I read
B. the words spoken in media products
140. Which theory says that audiences take in C. the definition of words in print
everything they see in the media, without
D. the way message are conveyed to the
much thought or choice?
audience
A. Hypodermic needle theory
146. Why are media so important?
B. Two step flow
C. Uses and gratifications A. Because they reach a large number of
people
D. Reception theory
B. Because they play an important role in
141. Which feature of language structure in a democratic country
TV news is to add drama? C. Because they provide us with multiple
A. The dominance of active voice resources.
B. The dominance of passive voice D. none of above
C. None 147. Today the media not only produces and
D. none of above distributes content to audiences, it also
and sustains social networks
142. Fill in the blank is the use of a single
characteristic to identify a more complex A. generates
entity. B. cancels
A. Simile C. downplays
B. Hyperbole D. applauds

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