This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Assimilation In Speech – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Assimilation In Speech Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The clusters tr, dr are characterized by A) Regressive assimilation affecting the work of the vocal cords. B) Progressive assimilation affecting the place of articulation. C) Reciprocal assimilation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reciprocal assimilation. 2. A type of cell division that occurs in the sex cells and reducing the chromosome number in half. A) Mitosis. B) Meiosis. C) Tetrad. D) Synapsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meiosis. 3. Train, pride, cry, cream, fright A) Progressive assimilation affecting the work of the vocal cords. B) Double assimilation. C) Assimilation affecting the place and manner of articulation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Progressive assimilation affecting the work of the vocal cords. 4. Who is considered the father of TPS? A) Sakichi Toyoda. B) Taichi Ohno. C) Eiji Toyoda. D) Edward Demming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taichi Ohno. 5. A symbiotic relationship in which one species (the parasite) benefits while the other species (the host) is harmed in a significant way A) Mutualism. B) Predation. C) Commensalism. D) Competition. E) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Parasitism. 6. Crooked, promise, progress A) Complete devoicing. B) Partial devoicing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete devoicing. 7. What is vowel reduction? A) The complete omission of a vowel sound. B) The reduction of a vowel to a less distinct, central sound. C) Changing consonants to vowels in quick speech. D) The omission of /t/ and /d/ sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The reduction of a vowel to a less distinct, central sound. 8. How would employment help to assimilate immigrants in France? A) Help immigrants earn more money. B) Help immigrants pass their citizenship test. C) Help immigrants feel fairly treated. D) Help immigrants establish social networks with more French people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Help immigrants establish social networks with more French people. 9. Which can be used in this quotation (from the classic novel The Horse and His Boy)?"But one of the worst results of being a slave ..... A) Contraction. B) H-elision. C) F-elision. D) Assimilation. E) Cluster simplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) F-elision. 10. What do cells need glucose for? A) Combustion. B) Respiration. C) Protein synthesis. D) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Respiration. 11. Keyboard is ..... device? A) Software. B) Memory. C) An Output. D) An Input. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An Input. 12. Meiotic cell division occurs in the ..... ? A) Cheek cells. B) Body cells. C) Muscle cells. D) Reproductive cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reproductive cells. 13. A symbiotic relationship in which one species survives on consuming the other species. The species that consume or win is the predator, and the species that is eaten up is the prey. A) Commensalism. B) Parasitism. C) Mutualism. D) Competition. E) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Predation. 14. As part of the naturalization process in France, what are immigrants expected to do? A) Find permanent residence. B) Get a job. C) Attend a month of civic education. D) Pass a French cultural test. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pass a French cultural test. 15. In progressive assimilation: A) The assimilated consonant is influenced by the following consonant. B) The assimilated consonant is influenced by the preceding consonant. C) Both consonants influence each other. D) The vowel sound influences the consonant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The assimilated consonant is influenced by the preceding consonant. 16. The suffix s will be pronounced as /s/ if the preceding consonants is fortis (voiceless)and as /z/ if the preceding consonant is lenis(voiced). A) True. B) Wrong. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Gumawa ng mga banga at palayok na ginamit bilang imbakan ng mga sobrang pagkain. A) Maunlad na panahon ng metal. B) Panahong Paleolitiko. C) Maagang panahon ng metal. D) Panahong Neolitiko. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Panahong Neolitiko. 18. In this assimilation under the influence of the post-alveolar r the alveolar t, d become post alveolar A) Assimilation affecting the place and manner of articulation. B) Assimilation affecting the work of the vocal cords. C) Double assimilation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assimilation affecting the place and manner of articulation. 19. What does laicite mean? A) Brotherhood. B) Democracy. C) Secularism. D) Equality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secularism. 20. Types of assimilation ..... A) Progressiveregressivedouble. B) Reciprocalcompletedouble. C) Voicedunvoiced. D) Divoiceddisvoiced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Progressiveregressivedouble. 21. Fill in the blank:In the assimilation of voice, a voiceless sound that is near a voiced sound will become ..... , or a voiced sound that is near a voiceless sound becomes ..... This type of assimilation is incredibly common in English. A) Voiced-voiceless. B) Voiceless-voiced. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voiced-voiceless. 22. Consonant:Fortis is ..... and lenis is ..... A) Voiceless, voiced. B) Voiced, voiceless. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voiceless, voiced. 23. Meiosis results in ..... ? A) 4 Haploid cells. B) 2 Haploid cells. C) 4 Diploid cells. D) 2 Diploid cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4 Haploid cells. 24. What is regressive assimilation in phonetics? A) The process by which a sound is influenced by a neighboring sound. B) The process by which a sound changes its features or manner of articulation. C) The process by which a sound becomes more similar to a preceding sound. D) The process by which a sound changes to match the following sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process by which a sound is influenced by a neighboring sound. 25. When is the homologous chromosomes exchange DNA and the diploid cell is divided into two haploid cells? A) Meiosis II. B) Interphase. C) Meiosis I. D) Mitosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meiosis I. 26. What is a negative effect of the use of assimilation to manage socio-cultural diversity in France? A) Reduction in tourist arrivals from Muslim countries. B) Reduce diversity in France. C) Create tensions as immigrants feel discriminated. D) Less places of worship in France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create tensions as immigrants feel discriminated. 27. When the last consonant in a prefix changes to be exactly like the first consonant in the stem, the process is called ..... When the last consonant in a prefix changes to be more like, but not exactly like, the first consonant in the stem, the process is called ..... A) Total assimilation/ Partial assimilation. B) Partial assimilation/ Total assimilation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Total assimilation/ Partial assimilation. 28. Find words for degrees of assimilation:1) intermediate 2) partial 3)complete A) Gooseberry2) sea horse3)little. B) Fall2)shamrock3) tree. C) Foot2) green3)ball. D) Goosebumps2)click3)does she. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Goosebumps2)click3)does she. 29. Would you like to take a cup of coffee?In the previous sentence, which of the phonemes does it coalesce? A) /d/ and /j/. B) /d/ and /y/. C) /d/ and /z/. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /d/ and /j/. 30. Waitress, profession, portrait A) Commple devoicing. B) Partial devoicing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Partial devoicing. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesAssimilation In Speech Quiz 1Assimilation In Speech Quiz 2Assimilation In Speech Quiz 4Assimilation In Speech Quiz 5Connected Speech QuizConsonant Clusters Pronunciation QuizConsonant Clusters QuizContrastive Stress Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books