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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Helen took the exams to enter Radcliffe College what subjects did she earn honors in?
(a) German and science.
(b) English and geography.
(c) German and English.
(d) Geography and science.

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

4. How did Anne Sullivan believe that normal children learned language?
(a) Watching it happen before them.
(b) Being exposed to it constantly.
(c) Engaging in it at the time.
(d) Having it specifically taught to them.

5. What was the first abstract term Helen learned to understand?
(a) Think.
(b) Solve.
(c) Concentrate.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Helen doing when Anne tapped her forehead and spelled think?

2. What did daily immersion in language allow Helen to do?

3. What was Helen doing when her next big step came?

4. What kept Helen from being lonely at Cambridge?

5. What did Helen need to learn how to recognize and communicate?

(see the answer key)

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