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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which genre best describes this novel?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Historical fiction.

3. How old was Helen when she became blind and deaf?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. Who else in Helen's family seemed to be verbally gifted?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her half-brothers.
(d) Her sister.

5. In what year did Anne Sullivan come to teach Helen?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Helen's family tend to let her have her own way whenever possible?

2. In what way was Helen gifted from the beginning of her life?

3. In what year was this novel first published?

4. Why might nature seem to be more menacing to Helen?

5. What was the first abstract term Helen learned to understand?

(see the answer key)

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