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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first the first word Helen connected with the spelling?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Pump.
(c) Water.
(d) Mug.

2. Which of the following literary terms did Anne use to help Helen with her learning about nature and life?
(a) Onomatopoeia
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

3. What subject was Helen able to learn about while on her trip?
(a) Science.
(b) Math.
(c) Geography.
(d) History.

4. What did Helen learn to fear?
(a) The power of nature.
(b) Her half-brothers.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) Being alone with no one to help her communicate.

5. How old was Helen when she became blind and deaf?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

6. At what age did Helen say her first word?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 3 months.

7. What abstract term did it take a very long time for Helen to understand?
(a) Think.
(b) Concentrate.
(c) Love.
(d) Solve.

8. Where did Helen's parents take her to see a famous eye doctor?
(a) New York.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Atlanta.

9. Where is Fern Quarry located?
(a) Lake.
(b) River.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Prairre.

10. Where did Helen and her family travel for their vacation?
(a) Fern Quarry.
(b) Boston.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Mobile.

11. What astounded Helen when she woke up Christmas morning?
(a) She had a gift from Anne.
(b) She found presents everywhere.
(c) She was the first person awake.
(d) She has presents herself.

12. Where did Helen visit in May of 1888?
(a) Her aunt in Mobile, Alabama.
(b) Perkins Institute
(c) Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
(d) The eye doctor in Baltimore.

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

14. What was the first thing Sullivan begin to teach Helen?
(a) Fingerspelling.
(b) How to eat.
(c) Games.
(d) Signing her name.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was this novel first published?

2. Where did Anne and Helen often take walks?

3. What caused Helen to get scared while she was on vacation with Anne?

4. How did Helen's family become acquainted with the Perkins Institute?

5. What did Helen break when she was raging in trying to learn the difference between mug and water?

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