This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Pragmatics > Politeness Strategies Spoken English – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Politeness Strategies Spoken English Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Small talk' and other politeness strategies are usually known as ..... A) Collocations. B) Phatic expressions. C) Non-fluency features. D) Slang. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phatic expressions. 2. ..... 6 tickets to the movie.(Least polite) A) Give us. B) We would like. C) We want. D) We will like. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give us. 3. According to Brown and Levinson, what factors decide the degree of politeness in interaction? A) Ranking, power, and status. B) Ranking, distance and power. C) Age, status and distance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ranking, distance and power. 4. If a speaker says soemthing that represents a threat to another individual's expectations regarding self-image, it is described as ..... A) Face wants. B) Face threatening act. C) Face saving act. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Face threatening act. 5. The tendency to use positive politeness forms, emphasizing closeness between speaker and hearer, can be seen as a ..... A) Negative politeness strategy. B) Positive politeness strategy. C) Solidarity strategy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solidarity strategy. 6. This is what I am getting at. A) Impolite way of giving opinion. B) Impolite way of disagreeing opinion. C) Polite way of disagreeing opinion. D) Polite way of giving opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polite way of giving opinion. 7. Which of these strategies is used to mitigate face-threatening acts? A) Direct commands. B) Silence. C) Indirect language. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect language. 8. Which politeness strategy uses indirect language to avoid being imposing? (passive-aggressive/indirect) A) No FTAs. B) Bald-On record. C) Off record. D) Positive Politeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Off record. 9. Of the following three choices that could occur when a guest came to your home to visit, which would you believe would be most likely to cause a threat to your face of that of your guest? A) Can I have a glass of water?. B) Could you take your feet off my table?. C) Make yourself at home. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make yourself at home. 10. Which of the following is a polite way to ask someone to move their car? A) Your car is in the way. B) Would you mind moving your car, please?. C) Get your car out of here. D) Move your car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Would you mind moving your car, please?. 11. A person's ..... is the need to be independent, to have freedom of action, and not to be imposed on by others A) Negative face. B) Positive face. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative face. 12. This is most distasteful book I have ever read. A) Impolite way disagreeing opinion. B) Polite way of disagreeing opinion. C) Impolite way of giving an opinion. D) Polite way of giving opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impolite way of giving an opinion. 13. Example of politeness training. A) Facial expressions and emotion. B) Countries. C) Restaurant. D) Training. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facial expressions and emotion. 14. A person's negative face is the need to be dependent, to have freedom of action, and not to be imposed on by others. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. A birthday greeting to a colleague is an example of A) Formal. B) Semi formal. C) Informal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Informal. 16. Use appropriate ..... A) Language. B) Language. C) Langage. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language. 17. What doesn't include in negative politeness strategy? A) Questioning. B) Hedging. C) Presenting opinions. D) Using family terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using family terms. 18. An individual's positive face is reflected in his or her desire to be ..... A) Imposed. B) Independent. C) Connected. D) Free. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connected. 19. I ..... reverse the charge. A) Will like you to. B) Would like you. C) Would liked you to. D) Would like you to. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Would like you to. 20. What is an example of using vague language? A) It's precisely seven o'clock. B) It's seven o'clock sharp. C) It's about seven o'clock. D) It's exactly seven o'clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's about seven o'clock. 21. This expression is the least polite to say. A) Lend me your shoes, please!. B) Do you mind if I borrow your shoes?. C) Would you mind lending me your shoes?. D) May I borrow your shoes?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lend me your shoes, please!. 22. You have a point, but have you ever thought how poor people on the street feel? A) Impolite way of disagreeing. B) Impolite way of giving opinion. C) Polite way of giving opinion. D) Polite way of disagreeing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polite way of disagreeing. 23. How many negative politeness strategies do Brown and Levinson list? A) 16. B) 10. C) 14. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 24. This is the way how you ask something politely. A) I need those sugar, please!. B) Can you pass those sugar for me?. C) Would you pass those sugar, please?. D) Pass me those sugar!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Would you pass those sugar, please?. 25. Which type of politeness strategy is used in the following sentence? "I wonder if you could lend me your mobile phone." A) Negative. B) Positive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative. 26. We say "Good afternoon" when we meet our friends in the afternoon. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. What is NOT a mitigating device? A) Possibly. B) Er . C) Would you mind ?. D) Should. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Should. 28. Speakers' expectations concerning their public self-image are called ..... A) Negative face. B) Face wants. C) Face hopes. D) Positive face. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Face wants. 29. Which of the following is an example of a face-threatening act? A) Offering help to a friend. B) Smiling at a stranger. C) Criticizing someone's work in public. D) Asking someone to pass the salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Criticizing someone's work in public. 30. Which of the following is an example of using a two-step question? A) Do you like sport? I mean, do you play sport?. B) I mean, do you play sport?. C) Do you like sport?. D) Do you play sport?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do you like sport? 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