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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Helen doing when Anne tapped her forehead and spelled think?
(a) Playing with her dolls.
(b) Sitting on her mother's lap.
(c) Wasting time.
(d) Concentrating.

3. Why weren't many people near where Helen lived aware of resources for the blind and deaf?
(a) The town was so far away from any school for the blind and deaf.
(b) Those who were blind and/or deaf were not premitted to attend schools.
(c) There were no others in the town who were blind or deaf.
(d) No such schools existed within the state at this time.

4. What biblical feature does Helen equate Anne Sullivan with?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Job.
(d) Moses.

5. What character does Helen indicate she was very jealous of?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Martha.
(c) Her baby sister.
(d) Her older half-brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Helen not like?

2. What was the first thing Sullivan begin to teach Helen?

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

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

5. What subject did Helen learn about on the walks she and Anne took?

(see the answer key)

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