This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis In Discourse – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis In Discourse Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. What is the deixis? A) It is the pointing function of some words. B) It is the utterance used to refer to something. C) It is the relationship between two sentences. D) It is the idea that people cooperate with each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the pointing function of some words. 3. 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) Them. C) We. D) Everything. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Them. 4. What does the term 'deixis' originate from? A) French meaning 'to show'. B) Greek meaning 'to point'. C) Spanish meaning 'to refer'. D) Latin meaning 'to indicate'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek meaning 'to point'. 5. "Back then" is temporal deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. 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. 7. "That is a great story."What's the dexis type of the word "that" ? A) Place deixis. B) Discourse deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Person deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discourse deixis. 8. "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) Person deixis. B) Place deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time deixis. 9. 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. 10. Matthew is an incredible athlete; he came in first in the race. A) Personal Deixis. B) Spatial Deixis. C) Temporal Deixis. D) Textual Deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Textual Deixis. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. "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. 14. What does discourse deixis refer to? A) Participants in communication. B) Physical location. C) Parts of the discourse. D) Social roles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parts of the discourse. 15. 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. 16. Fill in the blank: ..... :how we put words together ..... :word meanings ..... :speaker meaning A) Syntax; semantics; pragmatics. B) Semantics; syntax; pragmatics. C) Syntax; pragmatics; semantics. D) Pragmatics, semantics, syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax; semantics; pragmatics. 17. "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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. "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. 21. Spatial deixis indixates: A) Time. B) Location. C) People. D) Things. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Location. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. "Good eveing, ma'am."What's the dexis type of the word "ma'am" ? A) Place deixis. B) Discourse deixis. C) Time deixis. D) Social deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social deixis. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDeixis In Discourse Quiz 1Deixis In Discourse Quiz 3Deixis In Discourse Quiz 4Deixis In Discourse Quiz 5Deixis In Discourse Quiz 6Deixis In Discourse Quiz 7Deixis In Discourse Quiz 8Anaphora And Cataphora QuizAnaphoric Reference QuizCataphoric Reference QuizDeixis QuizReference Devices QuizTextual Deixis Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books