Deaf History

Question 1

Who was the "father" of AFRICAN deaf education?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Foster

Question 2

Why does oral education not always work?

Accepted Answer

All are correct

Question 3

Why was the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (Milan Conference) important?

Accepted Answer

Banned signing in schools

Question 4

Who wrote a book showing that ASL is really a language?

Accepted Answer

William Stokoe

Question 5

Why was Martha's Vineyard important in Deaf History?

Accepted Answer

All answers are correct

Question 6

Who said, "Deaf people could not be educated [since] without hearing, people could not learn."

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 7

Who was the seventh president of NAD who fought to preserve ASL?

Accepted Answer

George Veditz

Question 8

Who started the first Deaf school in America?

Accepted Answer

Clerc and Gallaudet

Question 9

What happened at Gallaudet University in 1988?

Accepted Answer

all answers are correct

Question 10

What is the only liberal arts college for the Deaf?

Accepted Answer

Gallaudet University

Question 11

What does N.A.D. mean?

Accepted Answer

National Association of the Deaf

Question 12

The Deaf baseball player who developed the hand signals that umpires still use.

Accepted Answer

William Hoy

Question 13

The report which stated oral education for the deaf to be a "dismal failure".

Accepted Answer

Babbidge Report

Question 14

A unique signing community was established here as a result of colonists arriving with a hereditary deafness gene.

Accepted Answer

Martha's Vineyard

Question 15

What did Alexander Graham Bell believe about deafness?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 16

What year was the first American Deaf School started?

Accepted Answer

1817

Question 17

Where was the first school for the Deaf in America?

Accepted Answer

Hartford, CT

Question 18

Who was the young American Deaf girl who yearned for education; causing a teacher's trip to France?

Accepted Answer

Alice Cogswell

Question 19

The deaf football player who invented the huddle.

Accepted Answer

Paul Hubbard

Question 20

Where was the first Deaf school?

Accepted Answer

Paris, France

Question 21

The country whose Sign Language is the basis of ASL:

Accepted Answer

France

Question 22

Which of the following is not one of the 3 "languages" that merged together to create ASL?

Accepted Answer

Brittish Sign Language

Question 23

What was the original name of the Deaf School that became Gallaudet University?

Accepted Answer

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind

Question 24

KSD graduate who helped to start the De'VIA art movement

Accepted Answer

Chuck Baird

Question 25

Who was the first Deaf President at Gallaudet?

Accepted Answer

I. King Jordan

Question 26

Who started the first Deaf school?

Accepted Answer

Abbe’ de l’Epee

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