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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. What is the name of the Negro girl?
(a) Beatrice
(b) Martha
(c) Rosalie
(d) Emma

2. How many children appear on the set of the Keller porch?
(a) 6
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 3

3. What item is featured first on the set?
(a) Crib
(b) Carriage
(c) Table
(d) Coffin

4. What item of clothing does Helen wear at the first meeting?
(a) Pinafore
(b) Shawl
(c) Dungarees
(d) Petticoat

5. Kate is the first to notice that the baby is ______________.
(a) Blind
(b) Clumsy
(c) Deaf
(d) Mute

Short Answer Questions

1. How will the helper get to the Keller house?

2. In what geometric pattern is the stage set?

3. What date is marked out on the calendar?

4. The family decides to contact a doctor in what city?

5. What set is used for Anne's first private meeting with Helen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the play opened with Dr. Howe examining Helen?

2. How do the Kellers realize that Helen is blind and deaf?

3. Annie and Helen spend a long time in the dining room in a battle of wills. What does Annie manage to teach Helen?

4. What might have happened to Helen if Annie had not taken the job?

5. In the scene in the garden with Captain Keller, Helen is the focus while there is a lot of action in the background. What is the purpose of this arrangement?

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

7. According to Annie the Perkins Institute helped her recover not only from blindness but from what other issue?

8. Who recommends the oculist to Captain Keller? What is Keller's reaction to the suggestion that the doctor be contacted?

9. How does Helen react when Annie touches her face? Why?

10. What is the recommendation from Alexander Graham Bell to Captain Keller?

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