Spring 2025 DEAF 401 Week 7b old

Where was ASD founded?

• Boston, MA
• Hartford, CT
• New York City, NY
• Baltimore, MD

Who was the first student enrolled at ASD?

• Alice Cogswell
• Laurent Clerc
• John Brewster
• Mary Gilbert

Which country, instead of the U.S., did Laurent Clerc almost go to help found a Deaf school?

• South Africa
• Bulgaria
• Mexico
• Russia

What did John Flournoy propose?

• Buying Texas and turning it into a Deaf country
• Establishing the American School for the Deaf
• Creating a Deaf state in the American West
• A federal law requiring all hearing people to learn ASL

Chapter 3 in Forbidden Signs points out that as oralism rose:

• More women teachers were hired
• Growing numbers of Deaf teachers lost their jobs
• Day schools proliferated and spread oralism
• All of the answer choices

Who is Pierre Desloges?

• The earliest known professional Deaf actor
• Deaf & the official French royal family portrait painter
• The earliest known Deaf author of a published book
• Abbé de l’Épée’s sign language teacher

Where did Dowager Empress (Queen Mother) Maria Feodorovna found the first Russian Deaf school?

• St. Petersburg
• Moscow
• Pavlovsk
• Ekaterinburg

Who was the deaf founder of the first deaf school in Moscow?

• Vladimir Putin
• Ivan K. Arnol'd
• Maria Feodorovna
• L. S. Vosnesenskaya

What is significant about the first Deaf school Canon P. J. Triest founded in Belgium?

• It was a school specifically for Deaf girls
• It was a school specifically for Deaf boys
• It was a school specifically for oral deaf children
• It was a school specifically for Protestant deaf children

Who is Eduard Huet?

• A French-born Deaf director of INJS
• A Brazilian-born Deaf educator who worked throughout South America
• A French-born Deaf teacher who helped found Deaf schools in Brazil & Mexico
• A Mexican-born Deaf community leader and writer