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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why weren't many people near where Helen lived aware of resources for the blind and deaf?
(a) The town was so far away from any school for the blind and deaf.
(b) There were no others in the town who were blind or deaf.
(c) No such schools existed within the state at this time.
(d) Those who were blind and/or deaf were not premitted to attend schools.

3. What was Helen most interested in that she visited while on her trip?
(a) Plymouth Rock.
(b) Commons.
(c) Bunker Hill.
(d) Ocean.

4. How did Anne speak to Helen constantly?
(a) Using the manual alphabet.
(b) With tools and her own creations.
(c) Using Helen's made up signs.
(d) With dolls and other manipulatives.

5. What was Helen allowed to do for the first time with the Tuscumbia school children?
(a) Sing Christmas carols.
(b) Give the children their gifts.
(c) Hang stockings.
(d) Decorate the tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did it take Helen a long time to be able to do?

2. Where did Helen and her family travel for their vacation?

3. What did Helen need to learn about the spellings Annie was completing in her hand?

4. Where did Helen's parents take her to see a famous eye doctor?

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

(see the answer key)

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