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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Helen's feelings of pain for the other students to pass quickly?
(a) She learns about some additional students.
(b) She sees them as happy and contented.
(c) She is moved on to another location.
(d) They tell her not to be upset.

2. What game did Helen think reading was like?
(a) Ring around the Rosey.
(b) Crossword puzzles.
(c) Hide-and-seek.
(d) Concentration.

3. How did Helen and Anne spend he rest of the day after Helen made the connection between the finger spelling and objects?
(a) Turning on and off the pump and practicing spelling water.
(b) Learning the names for people close to her and names of things in her surroundings.
(c) Playing and laughing together outside.
(d) Reviewing the manual alphabet.

4. What did Anne do to help Helen get over her writer's block?
(a) Had her write in a personal journal.
(b) Had her write a letter of apology
(c) Had her write a poem.
(d) Told her to write the story of her life.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who cared for the canary?

3. In what area did Helen have a lot of catching up to do?

4. How old was Helen when she was able to fingerspell, read raised print, read Braille and speak English?

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

(see the answer key)

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