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

2. What did daily immersion in language allow Helen to do?
(a) Become more of an active participant in the family.
(b) Participate in more conversations.
(c) Make cognitive leaps and function at a higher level.
(d) Keep busy and away from throwing tantrums.

3. Where did Helen spend this season?
(a) North.
(b) Work.
(c) South.
(d) Home.

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

5. What year did Helen take the exams to enter Radcliffe College?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1897.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Helen's patrons in London and Philadelphia work to have done for Helen?

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

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

5. How did Helen feel about cold winters?

(see the answer key)

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