History of the Deaf Community
Reading Quizzes
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Neisser Chapters 1, 2, & 3
1.Where is Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University) located?
2.Where is the Salk Institute located?
3.What was the name of Mason Cogswell’s daughter?
4.Which president received Laurent Clerc at the White House?
5.What English author was William Stokoe’s specialty?
6.Where was the one-handed fingerspelling system developed?
7.What was the name of Mabel Hubbard’s father?
8.Who published “Sign Language Structure” in 1960?
9.What was the name of Allen and Beatrice Gardner’s famous chimpanzee?
10.What prize did the French government award to A.G. Bell?
11.What is the name of the linguistics journal started by William Stokoe?
12.What do the letters in MSSD stand for (it is associated with Gallaudet University)
13.Where is the National Technical Institute for the Deaf located?
14.Who published Syntactic Structures in 1957?
15.What were the three parameters of American Sign Language that Stokoe identified?
16.What was the name of the book generated by Salk Institute researchers in 1979?
17.What signed language was studied by LaMont West?
18.Where did the author of Syntactic Structures go to teach linguistics?
19.What is the name given to the spontaneous system of signs and gestures used by deaf children without models of signed language?
20.Who is the creator of the Ling Method?
Neisser Chapters 4, 5, & 6
1.On what street was the first American School for the Deaf building located?
2.What deaf school is located in Northampton, Massachusetts?
3.Who was Alexander Graham Bell’s father-in-law?
4.What is the name of the residential school in Brattleboro, Vermont?
5.What school for the deaf used to be located at Lexington Avenue and 67th Street, NY?
6.What do the letters IEP mean?
7.Who were the two people that founded the Clarke School?
8.Which president signed the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) into law?
9.Where is St. Rita’s School for the Deaf located?
10.In what city is the New York State School for the Deaf located?
11.On which side of Hartford is the current main building of the American School for the Deaf?
12.What is the name of the Clarke School newspaper?
13.What was the name of the deaf girl that inspired John Clarke to establish a school?
14.How were CSUN interpreters dressed at the time of Neisser’s interview with Sharon Carter?
15.Who was Anne Sullivan?
16.What college did Helen Keller Attend?
17.Who was Samuel Gridley Howe?
18.Who was Laura Bridgman?
19.What famous linguist was Nim Chimpsky named after?
20.Who was the graduate student who worked with Nim Chimpsky?
BONUS: In what architectural style is the current main building of the American School for the Deaf?
Neisser Chapters 7 & 8
1.Who was the first executive secretary of the National Association of the Deaf?
2.What is the name of the monthly news publication from the NAD?
3.What do many foreign films have that attract deaf audiences?
4.What was the first television show to have open captioning?
5.What year did the first open-captioned show air?
6.What was the first news show to run with open captions (as a rebroadcast on PBS)
7.What year did the first open-captioned news show air?
8.How many hours of closed captioning were provided weekly in 1981?
9.What effect has TTY use had on the skills of incoming Gallaudet freshmen?
10.Where is the National Theatre of the Deaf’s permanent home?
11.Who wrote “Sign Me Alice?”
12.What play provides the basic theme for “Sign Me Alice?”
13.Who was the first deaf director of a deaf-written production for NTD?
14.What was “Rainbow’s End”?
15.At what location did the National Theatre of the Deaf perform in Pittsburgh?
16.What was the play that NTD performed in Pittsburgh?
17.Who was the first deaf person to win the Tony award?
18.What is the name of the play that provided the Tony award winner’s role?
19.Who wrote the play that provided the Tony award winner’s role?
20.Who is Richard Kendall?
Padden & Humphries Chapters 1 - 4
1.Who opened the first public school for Deaf children in Bordeaux, France?
2.What year was the National Institute for Deaf-Mutes opened in Paris?
3.What detail about the Abbé de l’Epée did all the story-tellers in France provide which is not accurate?
4.What is the main point of “Preservation of the Sign Language”?
5.What do the letters “SHHH” stand for and how is the organization different than the NAD?
6.What are “deaf peddlers” and what is the reaction from the deaf community toward them?
7.What is “Tales from a Clubroom”?
8.What does the label THINK-HEARING suggest within Deaf culture?
9.Who was Charles Krauel?
10.When and where was the centennial celebration of the NAD?
Padden & Humphries Chapters 5 - 7
11.What colours are the Gallaudet flag?
12.What is the name of the Gallaudet Newspaper?
13.Who published the dictionary of American sign language?
14.What Deaf poet created the poem “Windy Bright Morning”?
15.What Deaf poet translated “Jabberwocky” into ASL in 1939?
16.In the famous joke, how does the deaf husband know which hotel room is his?
17.What Deaf poet authored “eye music”?
18.What did Robert McGregor have to say about the “restored to society deaf”?
19.What did John James Flournoy propose in 1856?
20.How do deaf Europeans (from Italy and from Denmark) communicate differently than deaf Americans?
Van Cleve & Crouch Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4 (pages 1-46)
1.What country lead the way for private instruction of deaf children in the 1500s and 1600s?
2.What did Melchor De Yerba propose as a means of helping people to make confession.
3.What kinds of topics did Juan Pablo Bonet suggest that deaf education first explore?
4.What British school did Americans send their deaf children to during the late 1700s?
5.Why was the Bolling family so interested in the education of deaf children?
6.Where was the first (temporary) school for deaf children established in the United States?
7.On what date was the first permanent American school for deaf children opened?
8-11. What were the four significant aspects or features of the American School for the Deaf?
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12. How old was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet when he graduated from Yale?
13.How many Deaf children did Sylvester Gilbert have?
14.How did Mason Fitch Cogswell determine that there were at least 84 deaf children in Connecticut?
15. When and Where did Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet first meet Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc?
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b. Where
16. Which two religions played a role in the preferences and comfort of both Gallaudet and Clerc?
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17.How many years was Clerc committing himself to work as a teacher in America?
18 - 20. What were three of the four methods of instruction used at the Hartford School? (from their third annual report)
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Van Cleve & Crouch Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 (pages 47-105)
1.How many schools for deaf children were there by 1843?
2.What state did the Tilinghasts live in?
3.What school were Harvey Peet and then his son, Isaac Lewis Peet, in charge of?
4.Which state’s residential school did Thomas Tilinghast attend?
5.Where did Thomas’ younger brother, David, attend school?
6.Who was the primary advocate for establishing a Deaf state?
7-8. What were the two major problems that reduced the likelihood of creating a Deaf state?
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9.Where did Jane Elizabeth Groom (of England) suggest that deaf Londoners could relocate to?
10.What was John Carlin’s position regarding the establishment of a Deaf college?
11.Who did Amos Kendall hire to run the school that eventually became Gallaudet College?
12.What invention allowed Kendall make the fortune which allowed him to establish the school?
13.Who received the first honorary degree from Gallaudet College?
14.What accommodation was made when James Patterson was hired to teach at Gallaudet College?
15-16. What two challenges were facing deaf people as they founded the NAD in 1880?
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17.In what city was the Deaf-Mutes’ Union League founded?
18.What was the irony of graduates of an oral school forming the Deaf-Mutes’ Union League?
19.What were the “Little Papers”?
20.What state adopted oral methods as the only (and exclusive) method for Deaf education in 1911?
Van Cleve & Crouch Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14 (pp 106-174)
1.What European country was foremost in the use of oral methods of Deaf education?
2.What American city was the first to establish an oral-education school for Deaf children?
3.What action was taken by French oralists to discredit the use of sign language (prior to 1880)
4.What was the connection between Deaf education and Italy's Catholic church? (around 1880)
5.How many American delegates went to the Milan Conference in 1880?
6.What methods of educating Deaf children were promoted by Horace Mann in the 1840s?
7.What was the name of the special method that Alexander Graham Bell promoted for teaching language?
8.What school did Theresa Dudley's father help to establish in Northampton, Massachusetts?
9.What state did Bell travel to in order to promote the establishment of day schools for Deaf children?
10.What was Robert P. McGregor's point about the "restored to society" deaf people?
11.What did Olaf Hanson propose to Bell as a potential solution for encouraging deaf-hearing interaction?
12.Which state passed legislation (in 1911) requiring the use of oral methods to teach Deaf children?
13.What contribution did Joseph Schuyler Long make toward the preservation of signed language?
14.What contribution did the NAD and George Veditz make to the preservation of signed language?
15.Why did Bell want to prevent Deaf people from marrying each other?
16&17. What did Edward Allen Fay's research indicate about the children in...
16. Deaf to Deaf marriages?
17. Deaf to Hearing marriages?
18.What policies did the Civil Service adopt in 1906 regarding the hiring of Deaf government workers?
19.What effect did World War I have on the Deaf community?
20.What major event (regarding the Deaf community) took place in the Spring of 1988?
Crosby Text
1.What is the name of the child in Wendy Lichtman’s poem?
2.How did the diagnosis of deafness impact the relationship between her and her swimming teacher?
3. How many profoundly deaf people does the National Information Center on Deafness estimate to live in the United States?
4.What percentage of these profoundly deaf people succeed with spoken language?
5.What do the letters ABR stand for and what is an ABR?
6.What is a “silent weekend”?
7.Where was the silent weekend that the Crosby family attended?
8.What happened to DJ’s hearing aids at the Burger King?
9.Who invented Cued Speech and in what year was it invented?
10.Where is the National Cued Speech Association’s headquarters?
11.What examples does Crosby provide to relate the idea of fishing nets to hearing ability?
12.How did Oz signal races with neighborhood kids “so that everyone had an even chance!”?
13.What similarities and differences did Carina have with her sister, DJ?
14.What event coincided with the picnic for DJ’s Cued Speech program?
15.Who is Cheryl Heppner?
16.What comparison does Crosby make between kids from Persia and deaf kids?
17.What was wrong with the strategy of the ski teacher who gave DJ her first lesson?
18.The ADA was signed by President Bush in 1990. When did it begin to go into effect?
19.How did Oz convince the admitting nurse at the hospital that it was OK for him to accompany DJ?
20.What is DJ so excited to show her father at 2:00 am (according to Oz’s poem)?