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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following questions is not answered in chapter twelve?
(a) Why did Helen spend her winters in the north?
(b) How old was Helen during this time period?
(c) Where Helen went during the winter?
(d) What was Helen's favorite winter sport?

2. How did Helen feel about cold winters?
(a) She tolerated them.
(b) She enjoyed them.
(c) She disliked them.
(d) She despised them.

3. Which of the people at Cambridge learned to fingerspell?
(a) English and math teacher.
(b) Latin and Math teacher.
(c) Principal and German teacher.
(d) German and English teacher.

4. What did Helen's patrons in London and Philadelphia work to have done for Helen?
(a) Another interpreter besides Anne.
(b) Exams translated.
(c) Girls her own age who learned fingerspelling.
(d) Textbooks embossed in raised print.

5. What was Helen doing when Anne tapped her forehead and spelled think?
(a) Playing with her dolls.
(b) Sitting on her mother's lap.
(c) Wasting time.
(d) Concentrating.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Helen when she experienced snow for the first time?

2. What season was it during chapter twelve?

3. How did Anne Sullivan believe that normal children learned language?

4. What did daily immersion in language allow Helen to do?

5. What subject did Mr. Gilman, the principal, take over instructing Helen in?

(see the answer key)

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