Q 01/05

What does writing 'Deaf' with a capital D signal, as opposed to a lowercase d?

A) Deafness from birth

B) A medical diagnosis

C) Profound hearing loss

D) A cultural identity

Answer · why

D) A cultural identity

A cultural identity. Lowercase deaf names the audiological condition, while capital-D Deaf marks a community with its own sign language, many of whose...

Q 02/05

ASL is most closely related to the sign language of which country?

A) Sweden

B) Germany

C) Spain

D) France

Answer · why

D) France

France. ASL is thought to have taken shape in the early 1800s when French Sign Language met American pupils' own signs, and it differs so much from Br...

Q 03/05

ASL emerged in the early 19th century among the pupils of which school?

A) Gallaudet University

B) The Clarke School for the Deaf

C) The American School for the Deaf

D) The New York School for the Deaf

Answer · why

C) The American School for the Deaf

The American School for the Deaf. Nobody invented ASL: linguists trace it to this school's first pupils, who pooled their home signs and village sign ...

Q 04/05

Which deaf teacher co-founded North America's first permanent deaf school with Thomas Gallaudet in 1817?

A) Abbé Sicard

B) Laurent Clerc

C) Jean Massieu

D) Ferdinand Berthier

Answer · why

B) Laurent Clerc

Laurent Clerc. On the long Atlantic crossing the two men tutored each other: Clerc taught Gallaudet to sign, and Gallaudet taught Clerc English.

Q 05/05

In which Connecticut city did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet open America's first permanent deaf school in 1817?

A) Hartford

B) New Haven

C) Stamford

D) Bridgeport

Answer · why

A) Hartford

Hartford. Local surgeon Mason Cogswell wanted schooling for his deaf daughter Alice, so he asked his young neighbour Thomas Gallaudet to go to Europe ...