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TEST QUESTIONNAIRE

Academic Year Semester

Exam Period Program/Major
Instructor/s Course ELE 12 – Language, Culture and Society

INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading
the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use
pencil no. 2 only.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. It refers to a group of people who possess similar and For questions 7-8
distinct physical characteristics.
A. Race Andy lives in Brgy. Masigasig. He has five friends in
B. Ethnicity which they always keep in touch with each other even if
C. Nationality he is not around. During weekdays, he spends most of
D. None of the above his time doing his job at the rubber factory while
chatting with his co-worker to avoid boredom. He
2. It refers to a category of people who regard always refuses when his co-worker asks him to go to the
themselves to be different from other groups based on club or any event like party.
common ancestral, cultural, national, and social
experience.
A. Race 7. What kind of social network does Andy and his five
B. Ethnicity friends have?
C. Nationality A. Dense
D. None of the above B. Not dense
C. Uniplex
3. It also refers to our national identity. D. Multiplex
A. Race 8. What kind of plexity in social network does Andy and
B. Ethnicity his co-workers have?
C. Nationality A. Dense
D. None of the above B. Not dense
C. Uniplex
4. The word “Muslim” refers to which of the following? D. Multiplex
A. Race
B. Ethnicity 9. It is one of the major sound changes in the history of
C. Nationality the English language which was triggered by the
D. None of the above ascendency of King William the Conqueror.
A. The Great Vowel Shift
5. It is a measure of the range of different types of B. Vowel rediscovery
transaction people are involved in with different C. Modern English Vowel
individuals. D. None of the above
A. Density
B. Plexity 10. It is a change in language where the vowel sound is
C. Uniplex changing from RP.
D. Multiplex A. Sound change
B. Lexical change
6. It refers to whether the members of a person’s C. Syntactic change
networking are in touch with each other. D. Morphological change
A. Density
B. Plexity 11. In Middle English, the word "nice" usually had the
C. Uniplex meaning "foolish" or sometimes "shy" but in
D. Multiplex Modern English, it means "pleasant." What
language change occurred to the word "nice?"
A. Sound change
B. Lexical change
C. Syntactic change
D. Morphological change
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12. Most of the time, we use the word "human" which 20. It is an utterance that expresses solidarity and
cannot be found in the vocabulary of Old English empathy with others.
but can be found in Latin vocabulary. What language A. Phatic
change occurred? B. Poetic
A. Lexical change C. Directive
B. Syntactic change D. Expressive
C. Morphological change
D. Change due to borrowing 21. It is an utterance that comments on language itself.
A. Poetic
13. He coined the term "Great Vowel Shift." B. Expressive
A. Otto Jeperson C. Referential
B. Otto Jeperson D. Metalinguistic
C. Otto Jesperson
D. Otto Jespersen 22. What speech function is the following sentence?
“Here’s a seat.”
14. What language change occurred in the following A. Phatic
sentence? B. Directive
“I thirsty very.” C. Expressive
A. Lexical change D. Referential
B. Syntactic change
C. Morphological change 23. What speech function is the following sentence?
D. Change due to borrowing “It will be one minute past twelve o’clock after the
bell rings.”
15. How does language change spread if it spread from A. Phatic
one group of students to another age group? B. Directive
A. From style to style C. Expressive
B. From word to word D. Referential
C. From group to group
D. None of the above 24. It is a public self-image that every member of society
wants to claim for itself.
16. How does language change spread if phonological A. Face
changes spread through different words one by one? B. Politeness
A. From style to style C. Face threatening act
B. From word to word D. None of the above
C. From group to group
D. None of the above 25. It refers to the want of every person that his actions
be unimpeded by others.
17. How does language change spread if it spread from A. Politeness
one prestigious to a less formal style? B. Positive face
A. From style to style C. Negative face
B. From word to word D. Face threatening act
C. From group to group
D. None of the above 26. It refers to the want of every person that his wants be
desirable to at least some others and be accepted by
18. It is an utterance that expresses the speaker’s others.
feelings. A. Politeness
A. Poetic B. Positive face
B. Expressive C. Negative face
C. Referential D. Face threatening act
D. Metalinguistic
19. It is an utterance that attempts to get someone to do
something. 27. Which of the following is true about politeness in
A. Phatic language?
B. Poetic A. Politeness in language is centered on the notion
C. Directive of public self-image.
D. Expressive B. Politeness comes into play when we want to
undermine other people.
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C. The power relationships existing between C. Negative politeness

speakers do not influence our politeness in D. Face threatening act
speech.
D. All of the above 34. What politeness strategy is the following sentence?
“Goodness you cut your hair! … By the way I came
28. Which of the following is true about power to borrow some sugar.”
relationships in politeness theory? A. Save face
A. There is no disparate power relationship between B. Positive politeness
teacher and students. C. Negative politeness
B. There is no differing power relationship among D. Face threatening act
people in any social group.
C. Students use their first names to address one 35. Her work on Language introduces to the field of
another as a way of indicating that they are sociolinguistics many ideas about women's
equals. language. She proposes that women's speech can be
D. All of the above distinguished from that of men in a number of ways.
A. Robin Lakoff
29. Which of the following is not true about social B. William Labov
distance in politeness theory? C. Peter Trudgill
A. The notions of social distance and power D. Joshua Fishman
relationships are not related.
B. Social distance specifies the extent to which 36. It describes the kind of relaxed in-group talk that
individuals have a close or a more distant goes on between people in informal contexts.
relationship. A. Gossip
C. As social distance between speakers increases, the B. Feedback
greater the requirement for polite usage of C. Interaction
language. D. Interruption
D. None of the above
37. It is a discrimination based on sex or gender, or the
30. Which of the following statement is true about Face belief that because men are superior to women.
Threatening Act (FTA)? A. Sexism
A. It only affects the speaker. B. Misogyny
B. In face-threatening act, neither the speaker nor the C. Feminism
hearer loses face. D. Humanism
C. Face-threatening act inherently affects the face of
the speaker and hearer. 38. It is a belief in the need to secure rights and
D. All of the above. opportunities for women equal to those of men.
A. Sexism
31. What kind of "face concept" is in the following B. Misogyny
sentence? C. Feminism
"Turn down that damn awful noise!" D. Humanism
A. Positive face
B. Negative face 39. It refers to the socially constructed characteristics of
C. Face saving act women and men.
D. Face threatening act A. Gender
B. Feminity
32. According to politeness theory, why do we treat C. Musculinity
people politely and get upset when others are not D. Sexism
polite to us? 40. Which of the following is true about the linguistic
A. Because we all want to be treated equally. features of women’s language?
B. Because we don't want other people to belittle us. A. They rarely use tag questions.
C. Because we all have a universal desire to be B. They tend to use meaningful adjectives.
treated with politeness. C. Women tend to use greater vocabulary for
D. All of the above. describing colors.
D. All of the above.
33. What kind of politeness is the following sentence?
“If you’re not too busy you can also fix your 41. When women says “Awww! How adorable she is.”
room.” What linguistic feature is that according to Lakoff?
A. Face saving act A. Tag questions
B. Positive politeness B. Empty adjectives

C. Hedges or fillers
D. Rising intonation
42. What linguistic features of women when we tend to
use "sort of, well, you see" according to Lakoff?
A. Tag questions
B. Empty adjectives
C. Rising intonation
D. Lexical Hedges or fillers
43. Which of the following is not true about gossips?
A. It is an idle talk.
B. There is no linguistic feature in women's gossip
because it is just an informal talk.
C. Women’s gossip focuses predominantly on
personal experiences and personal relationships.
D. None of the above
44. What is the overall main function on women’s
gossips?
A. It is for entertainment.
B. It is for exchanging latest news and information.
C. It is to affirm solidarity and maintain the social
relationships between the women involved.
D. All of the above.
45. The following sentences are true about Linguistic
Construction of Gender except:
A. It is a construction rather than as a fixed category.
B. Men who work in clothing shops often construct a
more feminine identity.
C. Women in the police force always portray
feminine image because of their gender.
D. None of the above
46. Which of the following is true about Sexism?
A. Sexist attitudes stereotype a person by judging on
individual merits.
B. It involves behavior which maintains social
inequalities between women and men.
“Life is the most difficult exam.”
Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different test
paper.
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C. Language has not contributed to the maintenance
of social inequalities between women and men.
D. All of the above
47. How can a language be sexist?
A. If the language is void of stereotyping.
B. If it conveys stereotyped attitudes to women and
men.
C. If it involves behavior which maintains social
equities between men and women.
D. All of the above
48. The following sentences show the relationship
between language and sexuality except:
A. People use language to talk about courtship
rituals.
B. People use language to talk about their school
projects.
C. Heterosexual people typically make normative
choices in most conversational contexts.
D. None of the above
49. Which of the following sentences about sexism is
false?
A. Gay speech includes the use of stereotypically
feminine vocabulary.
B. Politicians rarely get themselves involved in
arguments around sexist language.
C. In many societies, the discourse of gender
conveys a message that heterosexuality is normal.
D. All of the above
50. Which of the following statement is true about
linguistic and gender?
A. It is easy to alter language and avoid stereotyping.
B. It is innate for men to discriminate women in
their language choice.
C. Social repression to women through language
depends on every person.
D. None of the above