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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 daily immersion in language allow Helen to do?
(a) Make cognitive leaps and function at a higher level.
(b) Participate in more conversations.
(c) Become more of an active participant in the family.
(d) Keep busy and away from throwing tantrums.

2. How did Anne Sullivan believe that normal children learned language?
(a) Having it specifically taught to them.
(b) Being exposed to it constantly.
(c) Engaging in it at the time.
(d) Watching it happen before them.

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

4. Why didn't Helen have any fits of temper while she was with her parents on the trip to see the eye doctor?
(a) Her parents gave her some medication to keep her calm.
(b) There were so many things to keep her mind and fingers busy.
(c) She was terrified of leaving her home and seeing the doctor.
(d) Her mother and father gave into all of her desires and whims.

5. What does Helen indicate Sullivan's arrival freed her from?
(a) Bondage.
(b) Silence.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Frustration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Helen doing when her next big step came?

2. How did Helen feel about Dr. Bell?

3. What does Helen indicate she felt after he tantrums passed?

4. Helen's account of learning to make the connection between the spellings and objects is a snapshot of what?

5. What was the first thing Sullivan begin to teach Helen?

(see the answer key)

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