This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis In Discourse – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis In Discourse Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a temporal deixis? A) Left. B) Next week. C) King. D) She. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Next week. 2. Spatial deixis indicates: A) Things. B) Location. C) People. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Location. 3. ..... depends on the time when the utterance is produced. A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Person deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 4. The word "we" refers to personal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. The team submitted the output this morning. A) Personal Deixis. B) Textual Deixis. C) Temporal Deixis. D) Spatial Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporal Deixis. 6. What type of deixis is used in referring to the listener's or speaker's relationship (e.g. Sir, Ma'am, dude)? A) Spatial deixis. B) Personal deixis. C) Discourse deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social deixis. 7. Two different expressions can have the same referent. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What is the role of context in pragmatic interpretation? A) It provides a framework for meaning. B) It complicates understanding. C) It is irrelevant to communication. D) It eliminates ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It provides a framework for meaning. 9. Identify the spatial deixis in: "Once you're inside, the treasure will be found on your right." A) Your right. B) Inside. C) The treasure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your right. 10. However, within the city of Berlin, there was no such security system. People were still able to pass freely from East to West and they did. A) West of berlin-Germans. B) East of Berlin-people. C) East of Germany-Germans. D) East of Germany-people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) East of Berlin-people. 11. ..... depends on the identity of the speaker. A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Person deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Person deixis. 12. Which of the following shows discourse deixis? A) They will come tomorrow. B) I saw that in the conclusion. C) We are here. D) This road is long. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I saw that in the conclusion. 13. "Now" is a discourse deixis because it signals a part of the conversation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Now nobody could escape to the West; East Germans were truly prisoners of their own country. The Berlin Wall separated families and ruined people's lives. A) Anaphoric. B) Cataphoric. C) Exophoric. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cataphoric. 15. News reporter from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia reports of the following:This city has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain. This city refers to? A) Spatial Deixis. B) Temporal Deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial Deixis. 16. I could swim when I was a child. The temporal deixis "When" is? A) Proximal forms. B) Distal forms. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distal forms. 17. Attributive use is regarding to a specific person who is referred to, although his/her name or some other description is not used. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. "Whenever I see Kristen, she wears that same coat." She and that refers to? A) Temporal and Person Deixis. B) Person and Spatial Deixis. C) Temporal and Spatial Deixis. D) Person Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Person and Spatial Deixis. 19. Now, today, tomorrow, and then are proximal deixis. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. "Now" is an example of: A) Distal person deixis. B) Proximal temporal deixis. C) Distal temporal deixis. D) Proximal spatial deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proximal temporal deixis. 21. "My friend Anne is really gorgeous"What is My friend refers to? A) Personal Deixis. B) Textual Deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal Deixis. 22. She put them on, then she slipped out of bed and tiptoed over to the window. A) Spatial-spatial. B) Temporal-spatial. C) Personal-spatial. D) Personal (distal)-spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial-spatial. 23. Which of the following is an example of personal deixis? A) Here. B) I. C) Today. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I. 24. What kind of deixis is the word "you" ? A) Personal. B) Temporal. C) Spatial. D) Social. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal. 25. News reporter from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia reports of the following:"This city has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain."This city is an example of ..... A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Person deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial deixis. 26. What is the deixis? A) It is the relationship between two sentences. B) It is the idea that people cooperate with each other. C) It is the utterance used to refer to something. D) It is the pointing function of some words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is the pointing function of some words. 27. In terms of anaphoric reference, the second or subsequent expression is the anaphor. What is the anaphor in the example below? In conclusion, we have no right to decide whether or not wild animals should exist, and I believe that we should do everything we can to protect them. A) Wild animals. B) Everything. C) We. D) Them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Them. 28. What does the term 'deixis' originate from? A) Greek meaning 'to point'. B) Latin meaning 'to indicate'. C) French meaning 'to show'. D) Spanish meaning 'to refer'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek meaning 'to point'. 29. "Back then" is temporal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Provide an example of place deixis. A) I will call you tomorrow. B) She is standing over there. C) We will meet at noon. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is standing over there. 31. "That is a great story."What's the dexis type of the word "that" ? A) Place deixis. B) Time deixis. C) Discourse deixis. D) Person deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discourse deixis. 32. "It is raining now, but I hope when you read this it will be sunny?"What's the dexis type of the word "now" ? A) Time deixis. B) Social deixis. C) Person deixis. D) Place deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time deixis. 33. Provide an example of person deixis. A) I will call you tomorrow. B) The dog is standing over there. C) The car is brooken. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I will call you tomorrow. 34. Matthew is an incredible athlete; he came in first in the race. A) Spatial Deixis. B) Temporal Deixis. C) Textual Deixis. D) Personal Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Textual Deixis. 35. Personal deixis changes meaning depending on who is speaking. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. News reporter from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia reports of the followings:This city has witnessed a flood as a result of the heavy rain. "This city" in this sentence is: A) Person deixis. B) Spatial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spatial deixis. 37. "She" and "they" are spatial deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. What does discourse deixis refer to? A) Participants in communication. B) Social roles. C) Parts of the discourse. D) Physical location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parts of the discourse. 39. Anaphora is more common that cataphora. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. Fill in the blank: ..... :how we put words together ..... :word meanings ..... :speaker meaning A) Pragmatics, semantics, syntax. B) Semantics; syntax; pragmatics. C) Syntax; semantics; pragmatics. D) Syntax; pragmatics; semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax; semantics; pragmatics. 41. "That day" is an example of temporal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Which of the following sentences is true about co-context? A) Co-context is non-verbal language speakers use like facial expressions or hand gestures. B) Co-context of a word is a set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence or utterance. C) Co-context is the physical context in which the conversation occurs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Co-context is non-verbal language speakers use like facial expressions or hand gestures. 43. Why are come, bring, take, go considered spatial deixis? A) They show the relationship between the speaker and the listener. B) They show the reference to the future. C) They show the idea of proximity and indicate the concept of distance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They show the idea of proximity and indicate the concept of distance. 44. "Pete promised me a souvenir from Paris but I never got it." -IT is A) Cataphoric reference. B) Anaphoric reference. C) Exophoric reference. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphoric reference. 45. Spatial deixis indixates: A) Time. B) Things. C) Location. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Location. 46. Saturday is deictic word of? A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 47. What is required to understand the meaning of 'I'll meet you there'? A) Knowing the location and time. B) Knowing the social context. C) Knowing the time of the meeting. D) Knowing the speaker's identity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowing the location and time. 48. "Good eveing, ma'am."What's the dexis type of the word "ma'am" ? A) Time deixis. B) Place deixis. C) Discourse deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social deixis. 49. In response to these difficult conditions, hundreds of thousands of East German citizens fled to the West to live., the word is refering to ..... A) West Union. B) West German. C) West Germany. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West Germany. 50. What type of reference refers to a noun which does not pick out a particular entity but a general class? A) Locative. B) Indefinite. C) Generic. D) Definite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generic. 51. How many types of dexis are there? A) 5. B) 4. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 52. Deixis means ..... via language. A) Identifying. B) Talking. C) Pointing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pointing. 53. Sunday? Ok. I will see you then.2. Yesterday, she went to school at 7am.3. I had a holiday there last summer.4. Here is a good spot; it is too sunny over thereHow many temporal deixis are there in these 4 sentences? A) 6. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 54. "She is going to the weekend concert, but she is stuck in traffic."She refers to? A) Temporal deixis. B) Personal deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal deixis. 55. "This sword is mine." -The word "this" is an example of: A) Proximal deixis. B) Discourse deixis. C) Spatial deixis. D) Distal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proximal deixis. 56. "They attended the Met Gala last month."last month refers to? A) Personal deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal deixis. 57. "Over there" is an example of distal spatial deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Spatial deixis indicates a specific place or distance between the speaker and the object. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. How are deixis and indexicality related in the domain of pragmatics? A) They have no relationship to each other. B) Deixis is used in written language while indexicality is used in spoken language. C) Deixis refers to pronouns while indexicality refers to verbs. D) They both involve the use of context to interpret meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They both involve the use of context to interpret meaning. 60. He finished the race in only 10 minutes. ( This) set a new world record. A) Personal deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Spatial deixis. D) Discourse deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discourse deixis. Next →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDeixis In Discourse Quiz 2Deixis In Discourse Quiz 3Anaphora And Cataphora QuizAnaphoric Reference QuizCataphoric Reference QuizDeixis QuizReference Devices QuizTextual Deixis Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books