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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Helen's favorite pastime when she is not reading?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Walking.
(d) Riding bikes.

2. What method did Anne use in teaching Helen?
(a) Following her interests.
(b) The same as that her siblings followed.
(c) Beginning with language.
(d) A prescribed curriculum.

3. Which of the following subjects was not one described by Helen as one she had an interest in?
(a) History.
(b) Geography.
(c) German
(d) French literature.

4. How does her lack of sight and hearing sometimes make Helen feel?
(a) Alone.
(b) Gifted.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Relieved.

5. How old was Helen when she had her first public controversy?
(a) 18.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

6. Which of the following subjects was not one Helen studied during her time in New York?
(a) Geography.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Italian.

7. How old was Helen when she was able to fingerspell, read raised print, read Braille and speak English?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

8. What types of books did Helen dislike reading?
(a) Greek mythology.
(b) Fables where animals are made to act or talk like people.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Poetry, particularly romantic poets.

9. What subjects did Helen take to prepare her for college?
(a) Latin and math.
(b) Math and science.
(c) French and Latin.
(d) French and science.

10. How did Helen feel about the Bible when she was a child?
(a) It was too simple for her.
(b) It bored her.
(c) She loves the good she finds in it.
(d) The brutality is too much for her.

11. What characters does Helen have empathy for in great literature?
(a) The heros.
(b) The female characters.
(c) The victims.
(d) The villains.

12. In what year did Helen finally enter Radcliffe?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1905.

13. How old was Helen when she experienced snow for the first time?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 8.

14. What made math more difficult for Helen?
(a) Anne was not allowed to translate in the math classes.
(b) She did not understand math.
(c) The books were not ready for her.
(d) She refused to put forth the effort as she did not enjoy the subject.

15. How did Helen learn to talk?
(a) She held her hand on Fuller's throat and felt the vibrations.
(b) She read the words while the teacher fingerspelled how to make the words.
(c) She felt the positions of Fuller's tongue and lips as she made sounds.
(d) She made noises and the teacher corrected her mouth and tongue positions with her hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Helen have to wait for before she could do her algebra, geometry and physics?

2. What outrages Helen as she visits the poor?

3. Which of the people at Cambridge learned to fingerspell?

4. What did Helen want to learn in the spring of 1890?

5. What was the only part of New York City that Helen actually liked?

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