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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way was Helen becoming a danger to herself and others?
(a) She refused to participate in family activities.
(b) She showed more jealousy against every single person she encountered.
(c) Her energy level was waning and she was unable to sustain herself.
(d) Her need for stimulation exceeded her parent's ability to train her.

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

3. What character does Helen indicate she was very jealous of?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her baby sister.
(c) Her older half-brothers.
(d) Martha.

4. In what state was Helen born?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where would Helen sit to be splashed by the waves?

2. Why was Helen's small vocabulary of signs not enough?

3. Learning these finger spellings could be said to be what for Helen?

4. What did Helen consider to be one of her favorite childhood pastimes?

5. Where is Fern Quarry located?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the fever what memories about sight and sound did Helen have left?

2. What caused Helen great pain at first at the Perkins Institute and then what changed her mind?

3. What gave Kate hope for Helen?

4. What was Helen doing when Anne taught her the concept of what it meant to think?

5. How did Helen take her preliminary exams to enter Radcliffe College?

6. What was a first for Helen when she attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies?

7. Where did Helen attend school for the next two years?

8. How did Helen's abilities change and what did it take her a long time to be able to do?

9. What did Anne reason about the way normal children's language skills develop and how did she apply that to Helen?

10. How did Helen's tantrums change and how did this make most of her family and friends feel?

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