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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following questions is not answered in chapter twelve?
(a) What was Helen's favorite winter sport?
(b) Why did Helen spend her winters in the north?
(c) How old was Helen during this time period?
(d) Where Helen went during the winter?

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

3. What kept Helen from being lonely at Cambridge?
(a) Her friends from Philadelphia visited often.
(b) Mildred stayed to study there as well.
(c) She was able to get outside frequently.
(d) Girls learned to fingerspell.

4. What did Anne use the manual alphabet to help Helen learn?
(a) Body language of the people who were around her.
(b) Appropriate tense and language cues for English language.
(c) Inflections and suggestions she could not see.
(d) The words and figures of speech people used in speaking to each other.

5. What subject did Mr. Gilman, the principal, take over instructing Helen in?
(a) Math.
(b) English literature.
(c) German.
(d) Geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Anne speak to Helen constantly?

2. What year did Helen take the exams to enter Radcliffe College?

3. Where did Helen spend this season?

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

5. What was Helen's favorite sport?

(see the answer key)

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