1.

Affricates begin as fricatives and end as plosives

a. True
b. False
2. Fricatives are characterized by a hissing sound.
a. True
b. False
3. Post-alveolar consonants involve the tip of the tongue and the hard palate
a. True
b. False
4. Plosives are continuants.
a. True
b. False
5. The soft palate is raised in all consonants except nasals.
a. True
b. False
6. The final consonant sound in ‘laugh’ is a
a. labio-dental
b. Glottal
c. Velar
d. Bilabial
7. Which has a post alveolar
a. Book
b. Sound
c. Measure
d. Listen
8. The different between /p/ and /t/ is
a. Voicing
b. place of articulation
c. Position of soft palate
d. Manner of articulation
9. Which word contains an affricate?
a. Tip
b. Job
c. Back
d. Teeth
10. Which word does not have a fricative?
a. Should
b. Map
 c. Flower
d. Teeth
11. The underlined sound in ‘mother’ is a
a. Voiceless dental fricative
b. Voiced dental fricative
c. Voiceless dental affricate
d. Voiced dental affricate
12. Which word contains an approximant?
a. Young
b. Look
c. Who
d. Job
13. Which word contains a velar?
a. box
b. Know
c. Press
d. What
14. What is the difference between /ʃ / and /tʃ/?
a. Voicing
b. Place of articulation
c. Position of soft palate
d. Manner of articulation
15. Which word contains a palatal?A. B. C. D.
a. Yellow
b. Job
c. Him
d. Rent
16. Match the following
A. Plosives
b. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst
c. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the
airflow
d. the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough
e. the air escapes through a small passage the
f. air escapes along the sides of the tongue

B. Affricates

g. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst
h. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the
airflow
 i. the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough
j. the air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the
tongue

C. Approximants

k. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst
l. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the
airflow
m. the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough
n. the air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the
tongue

D. Fricatives

o. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst
p. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the
airflow
q. the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough
r. the air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the
tongue

E. Lateral

s. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst
t. produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the
airflow
u. the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough the
v. air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the tongue
17. Which of the underlined sounds is a fortis consonant?
a. pleasure
b. Nature
c. Eyes
d. Of
18. Fortis consonants lengthen preceding vowels
a. True
b. False
19. The initial consonant in 'cook' is aspirated.
a. True
b. False
20. The friction noise of lenis fricatives is louder than that of fortis fricatives
a. True
b. False
21. Sounds in which the tip of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge are called palatal
consonants
a. True
b. False
22. Which of the followings contains a labiodental consonant?
a. Though
b. Cough
c. Smile
d. High
23. Speech sounds are called
a. Phonemes
b. Phonetics
c. Phonology
d. Phones
e. Allophones
24. The study of human speech sounds in a language that form systematized patterns is
called...
a. PHONETICS
b. PHONOLOGY
c. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
d. ARTICULATORS
25. What is the same about the sounds of P & B?
a. They are bilabial plosive.
b. They are alveolar plosive.
c. They are velar plosive.
26. How is B different from P?
a. The air goes through the nose.
b. The air is more restricted as it leaves the mouth.
c. The air vibrates in the throat.
27. What is the same about the sounds of /d/ & /n/?
a. They are bilabial sounds.
b. They are alveolar sounds.
c. They are velar sounds
28. How is /n/ different from /d/?
a. The air goes through the nose.
b. The air is more restricted as it leaves the mouth.
c. The air vibrates in the throat.
29. .................refers to the type of constriction the organ and place of articulation produce for
the realization of a particular consonant.
a. Place of articulation
b. Vocal tract
c. Oral cavity
d. Manner of articulation
30. Consonants produced with the velum lowered so that the air can pass freely through the
nasal cavity
a. Laterals
b. Glide
c. Stops
d. Nasals
31. Partial blockage
a. Stop plosive
b. Fricative
c. Affricative
d. Glottal
32. Which word has two voiced consonants?
a. Side
b. Tall
c. Big
33. Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds
a. True
b. False
34. Criteria for the description of consonants are .......
a. Lip rounding
b. Position of velum
c. Noise component
d. Position of the tongue
e. Voicing
f. Place of articulation
g. Manner of articulation
35. Plosives, Fricatives, Nasals, Approximants are all manners of articulation. Which group
of sounds are always voiced?
a. Plosives
b. Fricatives
c. Nasals
d. Approximants
e. None of above
36. What is the difference between a nasal and a plosive?
a. The position of the velum
 b. Lip rounding
c. The position of the tongue
d. Voicing
37. A plosive and a affricate differ in ...
a. The position of the velum
b. Total vs partial obstruction of the air- stream
c. Noise consonant
d. Height of the tongue
38. A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
a. Pressure phase and friction phase
b. place of articulation
c. Manner of articulation
d. Nothing
39. A voiced and voiceless sound differ in ....
a. Direction of the air stream
b. Aspiration
c. There is no difference
d. Vocal cord action
40. How are vowels different from consonants?
a. They are spoken further back in the mouth
b. They can occupy the nucleus of a syllable
c. They are always nasal
d. They are always voiced.
41. The following are distinctive features of consonants except
a. Place of articulation
b. Vocal backness
c. Manner of articulation.
d. Voicing
42. How does phonology differ from phonetics?
a. Phonology requires a PhD to study it.
b. Phonetics is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation.
c. Phonology is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation.
d. They are the same.

43. Sound that is produced is when vocal cords vibrate is

a. Voiced
b. Voiceless
c. Palatal
 44. Sounds produced by partially or completely blocking air in its passage from the lungs
through the vocal tract is

a. Vowels
b. Consonants
c. Dipthongs

45. The branch of phonetics that study the hearing and perception of speech sounds is

a. Acoustic Phonetics
b. Auditory Phonetics
c. Articulatory Phonetics

46. The scientific study of the production, transmission and reception of speech sound is

a. Phonetics
b. Phonology
c. Morphology

47. Indicate whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.

a. The term labio-dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the lower lip
towards the upper teeth
b. [z, /θ, v] The production of these sounds involves a vibration of the vocal cords.
c. [w, k, l] The production of these sounds involves a movement of the body of the tongue
in the direction of the velum.
d. The term dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the lower lip towards the
upper teeth.
e. Plosives are produced with complete closure in the vocal tract followed by a gradual
release.
f. Approximants are produced by two articulators coming close together, but not close
enough to cause friction
g. [m, n, k] In the production of these sounds the velum is lowered.
h. Raising the velum enables the air to flow through the nasal tract.
i. In the articulation of voiced sounds, the vocal cords are brought close together.
j. Most speech sounds are made by allowing air to flow through the nose