______________refers to an individual’s equal and native command of two or more languages?

Related Mcqs:

1. ______________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility ?

   A. Dialect
   B. Idiolect
   C. Register
   D. Slang

2. The study of relationships between two or more languages and the investigation whether the common languages have a common ancestor is called___________?

   A. Psycho linguistics
   B. Sociolinguistics
   C. Comparative linguistics
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

3. Transformational-generative grammar is a broad theory used to model, encode, and deduce a native speaker’s linguistic capabilities, was developed by_________?

   A. Noam Chomsky
   B. Ferdenand De Sassure
   C. Leon Battista Alberti
   D. Enoch Powell

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

4. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

5. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

   A. Both b and c
   B. Diachrony/Synchrony
   C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
   D. N. O. T

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?

   A. two
   B. three
   C. four
   D. five

7. Occom says he was discriminated against as a missionary and minister. What proof does he present to illustrate the unfair treatment of Native American ministers ?

   A. Establishment of puritans
   B. Establishment of autobiography
   C. Establishment of Indian praying towns
   D. Establishment of self- reliance

8. A work of criticism that considers how English imperialism affected native Indian authors would be an example of_______________?

   A. Marxist theory
   B. psychoanalytic theory
   C. postcolonial theory
   D. deconstruction

9. Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?

   A. He had known many “Biggers” in his life.
   B. He was trying to overcome his fears of powerful men.
   C. He was proud of all the African American men he had seen stand up to Whites.
   D. He wanted to show African American males how not to live.

10. Native Son was written by___________________?

    A. Jean Toomer.
    B. Richard Wright.
    C. Ralph Ellison.
    D. James Baldwin.