This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis Quiz 2 (43 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is local color in a story? A) The author's tone. B) The mood of a story. C) The unique traditions, setting, and customs. D) The title's meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The unique traditions, setting, and customs. 2. Physically close objects will be treated by the speaker as psychologically close A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Time wanders around the room and goes over to tug at the handles of the cabinet A) This is an example of intentional communication. B) This is an example of non-intentional communication. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This is an example of non-intentional communication. 4. All subject pronouns are person deixis A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 5. What there lack you know A) Temporal Deixis. B) Spatial Deixis. C) Personal Deixis. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spatial Deixis. 6. What does Deixis need? A) Immediate Indexation. B) A connection between words. C) A verb. D) Immediate physical context. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immediate physical context. 7. Speaker plus other, excluding addressee A) Exclusive '' we". B) Inclusive '' we". C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exclusive '' we". 8. To interpret deictic expressions correctly, the speaker and listener don't need to be in the same context A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 9. Communication includes A) Body language. B) Sign language. C) Vocalizations. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. Used to point to people, places, and times (me, you; here, there; now, then) A) Personal deixis. B) Spatial deixis. C) Deictic expressions (deixis). D) Temporal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deictic expressions (deixis). 11. No, more to your right A) Spatial deixis. B) Personal Deixis. C) Temporary Deixis. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal Deixis. 12. The perlocutionary stage begins at: A) 8 months. B) Birth. C) 6 months. D) 12 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth. 13. "Whenever I see Alex, he wears that same T-shirt" "he" and "that" are respectively the examples of ..... A) Personal and spatial deixis. B) Spatial and personal deixis. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal and spatial deixis. 14. What is the main task of a translator regarding deixis? A) To use more complex vocabulary. B) To identify the situation accurately. C) To avoid using pronouns. D) To change the meaning of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To identify the situation accurately. 15. What was Okonkwo famous for in Things Fall Apart? A) Becoming a priest. B) Playing music. C) Defeating a great wrestler. D) Writing poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Defeating a great wrestler. 16. What is a common mistake made by translators regarding the pronoun 'one'? A) Using it too frequently. B) Using it without context. C) Using it in place of proper nouns. D) Using it with uncountable nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using it with uncountable nouns. 17. What is deixis in literature? A) Words that point to time, place, or people in a story. B) A type of poem. C) A kind of story ending. D) A part of grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words that point to time, place, or people in a story. 18. Why did Old Tung Pao refuse to use Japanese silkworm eggs? A) They were too expensive. B) He was allergic. C) He wanted to protect Chinese tradition. D) He wanted to stop farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wanted to protect Chinese tradition. 19. Yeah, right there A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporary Deixis. C) Personal Deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial deixis. 20. What does a spatial deixis indicate? A) A. The time of an event. B) B. The speaker's location or distance from an object or place. C) C. The speaker's relationship with the listener. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. The speaker's location or distance from an object or place. 21. Which sentence has the italicized word used DEICTICALLY?1. He was just here moments ago! Where is he?2. Oh boy, here we go again. A) 1. B) 2. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 22. Which is a situational deixis? A) Those days. B) Today. C) You. D) This street. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) You. 23. In the story Spring Silkworms, what do silkworms symbolize for the villagers? A) Entertainment. B) A connection to the outside world. C) Tradition and survival. D) Religious belief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tradition and survival. 24. What is ellipsis in language? A) The addition of adjectives. B) The use of synonyms. C) The omission of words. D) The repetition of phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The omission of words. 25. What is the purpose of learning about historical context in stories like Spring Silkworms and Things Fall Apart? A) To memorize old facts. B) To know the author's birthday. C) To better understand the story's meaning and characters. D) To study science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To better understand the story's meaning and characters. 26. What are the ways to reference something? A) Discussion, Statement, Analysis. B) Inference, Anaphora, Presupposition. C) Astonishment, Realia, Transitions. D) Reference, Analytics, Dissertation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inference, Anaphora, Presupposition. 27. A. You look about fifteen.B. Is that meant to be a compliment?"that" refers to? A) Personal Deixis. B) Spatial Deixis. C) Temporal Deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spatial Deixis. 28. In which situation is deixis NOT typically used? A) When the object is mentioned multiple times. B) When the object is directly perceived. C) When the author avoids repetition. D) When the object is abstract and countable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When the object is abstract and countable. 29. How is the weather there A) Personal Deixis. B) Spatial Deixis. C) Temporal Deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spatial Deixis. 30. What is deixis primarily used for in language? A) To translate idioms. B) To create complex sentences. C) To indicate a situational component. D) To define grammatical rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To indicate a situational component. 31. True or False:Deixis depends entirely on the context of the conversation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. "Go out !"This sentence has ..... deixis A) Spatial. B) Social. C) Person. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial. 33. Did you see them A) Personal deixis. B) Spatial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal deixis. 34. Which is an example of distal spatial deixis? A) A. This. B) B. There. C) C. Here. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. There. 35. What are the Types of Deixis? A) Spatial, Personal, Dialectical. B) Existential, Martial, Personal. C) Irrational, Temporal, Neural. D) Personal, Spatial, Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personal, Spatial, Temporal. 36. Which vocabulary word means money that someone owes? A) Tradition. B) Cocoon. C) Debt. D) Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debt. 37. Utterance are easily understood by the people are not present A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. ..... is the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and their users A) Semantics. B) Pragmatics. C) Morphology. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pragmatics. 39. Tell me who you're with A) Temporary Deixis. B) Spatial deixis. C) Personal Deixis. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal Deixis. 40. Is it exclusive we or inclusive we?We are wondering if you'd be interested in collaborating with us. A) Inclusive. B) Exclusive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclusive. 41. What is one tradition of the Igbo people mentioned in the presentation? A) Naming babies after 7 days. B) Marrying without dowries. C) Living in palaces. D) Using silkworms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naming babies after 7 days. 42. How many kinds of deixis in this sentence?"She is about to leave soon" A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 43. The simplicity of person deixis disguises the complexity of their use A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDeixis Quiz 1Anaphora And Cataphora QuizAnaphoric Reference QuizCataphoric Reference QuizDeixis In Discourse QuizReference Devices QuizTextual Deixis Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books