This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Reference > Deixis – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Deixis Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Here is a good spot; it is too sunny over there."here" and "there" refer to? A) Spatial deixis. B) Temporal deixis. C) Personal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spatial deixis. 2. What is the primary function of deixis? A) A. To give a detailed description. B) B. To point to something using language. C) C. To explain abstract ideas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. To point to something using language. 3. What made it hard for the villagers to sell their silk cocoons? A) Poor weather. B) Closed silk mills and war. C) No buyers at all. D) The silk was bad quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed silk mills and war. 4. What is synonymous with "indexical" ? A) Deixis. B) Deictic expression. C) Index. D) Deictic center. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deictic expression. 5. How many deixes are there in the following sentence? "Your daughter found page 33 interesting." A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 6. Used to point to things (it, this, these) and people (him, them, those idiots) A) Spatial deixis. B) Pragmatics. C) Temporal deixis. D) Personal deixis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personal deixis. 7. What does temporal deixis refer to? A) A. The relationship between speaker and listener. B) B. The timing of an event relative to the time of speaking. C) C. The physical distance of an object. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. The timing of an event relative to the time of speaking. 8. Identify the type of deixis used in the italicized part: "Sir, smoking is not allow here." A) Person. B) Spatial. C) Temporal. D) Social. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social. 9. How many TYPES of deixis are present in this sentence?"He's gone." A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 10. What does historical context help us understand in literature? A) Spelling rules. B) The book's price. C) The background events that shape the story. D) The writer's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The background events that shape the story. 11. What is the DEICTIC CENTER in this sentence?"John, are you in the room? Im coming in now!" A) Addressee. B) Speaker. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Addressee. 12. Used to point to a time (now, then, last year) A) Temporal deixis. B) Personal deixis. C) Spatial deixis. D) Pragmatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temporal deixis. 13. Hey, hand me that A) Personal Deixis. B) Spatial Deixis. C) Temporal Deixis. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal Deixis. 14. What is the primary function of deictic pronouns? A) To add adjectives. B) To simplify sentences. C) To indicate specific references. D) To create new words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To indicate specific references. 15. Intentional Communication has to be verbal. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. True or False?In English, spatial deixis terms can indicate the space between the subject and the addressee. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. ..... is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context. A) Context. B) Deixis. C) Inference. D) Presupposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deixis. 18. What does the term 'deictic' refer to? A) A grammatical error. B) A word that replaces a direct reference. C) A type of noun. D) A synonym for ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A word that replaces a direct reference. 19. How did Okonkwo feel about his father Unoka? A) He admired him. B) He wanted to be like him. C) He was proud of him. D) He was ashamed of him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was ashamed of him. 20. True or False? "How does that sound?" : "That" is a spatial deixis. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 21. They are having breakfast A) Personal deixis. B) Spatial deixis. C) Temporal deixis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal deixis. 22. El oso y el tigre se retaron a un duelo a muerte, el oso y el tigre se disputaban el reino.si aplicamos deixis personal, las palabras subrayadas se cambian por: A) Ellas. B) Nosotros. C) Ustedes. D) Ellos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ellos. 23. The locutionary stage begins at: A) Birth. B) 6 months. C) 8 months. D) 12 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12 months. 24. The action of going is inclusive in the first, exclusive in the second A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Quien puede usar la Deixis espacial? A) Hablante. B) Visualizador. C) Persona que hable un lenguaje. D) Oyente. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona que hable un lenguaje. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDiscourse QuizzesGrammar QuizzesDeixis Quiz 1Deixis Quiz 3Deixis Quiz 4Deixis Quiz 5Anaphora And Cataphora QuizAnaphoric Reference QuizCataphoric Reference QuizDeixis In Discourse QuizReference Devices QuizTextual Deixis Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books