This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Maxims Of Conversation – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Maxims Of Conversation Quiz 1 (28 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did Grice introduce the conversational maxims? A) 1965. B) 1975. C) 1985. D) 1955. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1975. 2. "In a conversation, we stay on the topic" . This is maxim of A) Relation. B) Quality. C) Manner. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relation. 3. What is the difference between flouting and breaking? A) Flouting is intentional, breaking is accidental. B) Breaking is accidental, flouting is intentional. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flouting is intentional, breaking is accidental. 4. Select the violated conversation maxim:Student:I was absent on Monday-did I miss anything important? Teacher:Oh no, of course not, we never do anything important in class. A) Quality. B) Relevance. C) Manner. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quality. 5. Grice's co-operative principles has how many maxims? A) Two maxims. B) Three maxims. C) Four maxims. D) One maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four maxims. 6. Which of Grice's Maxims has been violated if you purposely withhold information from someone? A) Quality. B) Relevance. C) Quantity. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quantity. 7. Openly insult specific groups through words and actions. This is called A) Implicit Bias. B) Explicit Bias. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explicit Bias. 8. When a maxim is [ ..... ], it is usually done overtly, and the listener is unaware that a maxim has been broken. A) Violated. B) Flouted. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Violated. 9. If someone has implicit biases, this is always noticeable. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. A speaker can be said to violate a maxim when ..... A) They have an imperfect knowledge or performance of language. B) They seem unwilling to cooperate in the way the maxim requires. C) They appear not to follow the maxims but expect hearers to appreciate the meaning implied. D) They know that the hearer will not know the truth and will only understand the surface meaning of the words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They know that the hearer will not know the truth and will only understand the surface meaning of the words. 11. Define the Maxim of Manner. A) Provide sufficient information. B) Speak clearly and fluently. C) Be truthful and accurate. D) Be relevant to the context. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speak clearly and fluently. 12. Which maxim states that 'You should try and be as clear as possible.'? A) Manner. B) Quantity. C) Relevance. D) Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Manner. 13. Which of Grice's Maxims has been violated if you purposely tell a lie? A) Quality. B) Relevance. C) Manner. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quality. 14. Grice's Maxims are not universal. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Select the violated conversation maxim:Mom:What did you think of Junior's childish behavior last night? Dad:Well, boys will be boys A) Manner. B) Relevance. C) Quantity. D) Quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relevance. 16. Define the Maxim of Quantity. A) Provide sufficient information. B) Speak clearly and fluently. C) Be truthful and accurate. D) Be relevant to the context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provide sufficient information. 17. What it the maxim of quality? A) Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity. B) Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither too little information nor too much. C) Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been said before. D) Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believe corresponds to reality. 18. Select the violated conversation maxim:Student A:Can you tell me where the lecture is? Student B:It is in room 254, the room in which I had my first university class ever. A) Quantity. B) Quality. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantity. 19. Eliza has just concluded a telephone conversation with Gudhon. She began to reflect on her ideas and realized that she had not expressed them as intended. Which of the four levels of conversation does Eliza use? A) Self evaluation. B) Hidden assumption. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self evaluation. 20. "In the conversation include only information that you believe is true" . This is maxim of A) Maxim of quality. B) Maxim of quantity. C) Maxim of manner. D) Maxim of relation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim of quality. 21. When a maxim has been [ ..... ], all those concerned are usually aware of it. A) Violated. B) Flouted. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flouted. 22. Based on the debiasing discussion we had, which of the following is the best sentence? A) The only way to eliminate discrimination based on accent in the workplace is for people with accents to eliminate their accents. B) People must increase their awareness of any internalised biases. and change biased actions with unbiased ones. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People must increase their awareness of any internalised biases. and change biased actions with unbiased ones. 23. Select the violated conversation maxim:Student A:Do you like Linguistics? Student B:Well, let's just say I don't jump for joy before class. A) Quality. B) Relevance. C) Manner. D) Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manner. 24. Which principle are Grice's Conversational Maxims drawn from? A) The Continental Principle. B) The Principle of Accommodation. C) The Cooperative Principle. D) The Principle of Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Cooperative Principle. 25. Which maxim states that 'You shouldn't say things that you can't back up with evidence.'? A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Relevance. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quality. 26. Which Grice's Maxim relates to giving the right amount of information without overloading or under informing? A) Maxim of Manner. B) Maxim of Relation. C) Maxim of Quality. D) Maxim of Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maxim of Quantity. 27. Define the Maxim of Quality. A) Provide sufficient information. B) Speak clearly and fluently. C) Be truthful and accurate. D) Be relevant to the context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Be truthful and accurate. 28. Misunderstandings in discussions may result from differences in conversational rules . A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesConversation Analysis QuizConversation Skills QuizImplicature Exercises QuizPoliteness And Face QuizPoliteness Strategies Spoken English QuizPoliteness Strategies QuizPoliteness Theory QuizPragmatic Inference Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books