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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject did Helen learn about on the walks she and Anne took?
(a) Science.
(b) Social Studies.
(c) Math.
(d) Geography.

2. What did Helen consider to be one of her favorite childhood pastimes?
(a) Eating outside.
(b) Climbing trees.
(c) Feeling storms.
(d) Working with Anne.

3. How did Helen get interested in learning about dinosaurs?
(a) A bone she found in the field.
(b) A conversation with Martha about them.
(c) A story that Anne read to her.
(d) A man sending her fossils.

4. After the storm, what was it a long time before Helen did again?
(a) Went outside.
(b) Felt a storm.
(c) Climbed a tree.
(d) Ate with her teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was this novel first published?

2. Which of the following is not true about Helen?

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

4. How did Helen spend the rest of her summer?

5. How does Helen describe this Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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