View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What present do the Blind Girls give to Helen?

2. What is supposedly wrong with the baby?

3. Who is James?

4. What object is a common item used on set?

5. Where does the meeting of Anne and Helen take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who makes the original suggestion that Helen should be put in an asylum? How do Helen's parents react?

2. What is the purpose of dividing the stage into quadrants?

3. The setting often requires focusing in closely on the faces of the characters. Why is it important to show Martha's mouth?

4. Why is it important that Annie lets Helen into her bedroom?

5. How does Helen react to the incident at the pump?

6. Why does Annie keep Helen from returning to Kate the minute they return to the house?

7. Annie does not intend to tell the Kellers about her history. What is Anagnos' advice on the matter?

8. What is one of the main concerns of Anagnos regarding Annie Sullivan's position as governess with the Kellers?

9. Percy is interested in learning how to play "the finger game" with Helen. How does Helen know that it is not Annie's hand? How does Helen react?

10. What do Annie and Helen do once they are at the water pump?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several months later, the reader/viewer is witness to Helen and the family preparing for Christmas. Helen is shown writing. What tool has Annie employed to help Helen to write? How would Helen be able to learn to write so quickly? What does Helen do with this new found skill? How does Annie react to Helen's progress?

Essay Topic 2

The most exciting and telling scene in the teleplay is the one involving Annie and Helen at the pump. Explore this scene. What took place between Annie and Helen during those moments? What made it obvious that Helen had experienced a real breakthrough, not only in language but in the relationship with Annie? How did the scene affect the Kellers?

Essay Topic 3

There is a highly effective method of using lighting on stage as well as in television. Cite at least three examples of how lighting was used as foreshadowing and how that knowledge affected the reader/viewer's perceptions.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 624 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample