Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) Practice Test

Understanding different ways we represent language through signs helps you see the distinction between natural sign languages and sign systems that encode spoken languages. American Sign Language is a natural sign language with its own grammar and cultural use among Deaf communities. Manually-coded English and Pidgin Sign English are examples of sign systems: they use signs to represent English and follow English structure rather than having a separate sign-language grammar. So listing ASL alongside MCE and PSE shows both a natural sign language and two systems designed to represent English, illustrating the variety in sign-based communication.

The other options mix in things that don’t fit as clearly. One option mentions ASL alone, which doesn’t show the contrast with a sign system. Another combines a natural sign language with a different sign system, but not the broader spread of examples. The last option pairs Morse code and spoken English, which aren’t sign-based forms of communication.