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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Anne use the manual alphabet to help Helen learn?
(a) Appropriate tense and language cues for English language.
(b) The words and figures of speech people used in speaking to each other.
(c) Inflections and suggestions she could not see.
(d) Body language of the people who were around her.

2. How did Helen and Anne spend he rest of the day after Helen made the connection between the finger spelling and objects?
(a) Learning the names for people close to her and names of things in her surroundings.
(b) Turning on and off the pump and practicing spelling water.
(c) Playing and laughing together outside.
(d) Reviewing the manual alphabet.

3. In what area did Helen have a lot of catching up to do?
(a) Reading.
(b) Language.
(c) Math.
(d) Learning.

4. How did Helen first begin to show she could read the words presented to her by Anne?
(a) She would go and find the object on the card.
(b) She would attach the correct word to the object.
(c) She would fingerspell the object Anne gave her.
(d) She would give the appropriate card to Anne.

5. Who best understood Helen's first limited sign language?
(a) Her nurse.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did most of Helen's reading and studying take place?

2. In what way was Helen becoming a danger to herself and others?

3. In what month did Anne Sullivan arrive at Ivy Green to work with Helen?

4. Which of the following literary terms did Anne use to help Helen with her learning about nature and life?

5. What does Helen indicate Sullivan's arrival freed her from?

(see the answer key)

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