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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Helen's patrons in London and Philadelphia work to have done for Helen?
(a) Girls her own age who learned fingerspelling.
(b) Exams translated.
(c) Another interpreter besides Anne.
(d) Textbooks embossed in raised print.

2. What did it take Helen a long time to be able to do?
(a) Participate in conversations.
(b) Understand language.
(c) Initiate conversation.
(d) Think critically.

3. Which of the people at Cambridge learned to fingerspell?
(a) Latin and Math teacher.
(b) German and English teacher.
(c) English and math teacher.
(d) Principal and German teacher.

4. How did Helen feel about cold winters?
(a) She disliked them.
(b) She enjoyed them.
(c) She tolerated them.
(d) She despised them.

5. Which of the following is an example of a word game that Anne invented and played with Helen?
(a) Where's your nose?
(b) When did that happen?
(c) What time is it?
(d) How high is that?

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anne use the manual alphabet to help Helen learn?

2. What was Helen's favorite sport?

3. When Helen took the exams to enter Radcliffe College what subjects did she earn honors in?

4. How did Anne speak to Helen constantly?

5. How did Anne Sullivan believe that normal children learned language?

(see the answer key)

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