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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might nature seem to be more menacing to Helen?
(a) Because she did not have all of her senses.
(b) Because she was unable to communicate well.
(c) Because she didn't understand its laws.
(d) Because it was an ongoing paradox.

2. What was Helen most interested in that she visited while on her trip?
(a) Commons.
(b) Plymouth Rock.
(c) Bunker Hill.
(d) Ocean.

3. Which of the people at Cambridge learned to fingerspell?
(a) German and English teacher.
(b) Principal and German teacher.
(c) Latin and Math teacher.
(d) English and math teacher.

4. What did Helen indicate she did not know about Pilgrims at the time?
(a) That they persecuted others.
(b) That they did not land every where.
(c) That they came from another country.
(d) That they traveled for religious freedom.

5. How did Helen's family become acquainted with the Perkins Institute?
(a) Through the eye doctor in Baltimore.
(b) Through Helen's mother's reading.
(c) Through Dr. Bell.
(d) Through Anne Sullivan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Helen born?

2. After the storm, what was it a long time before Helen did again?

3. Who did the eye doctor recommend that Helen's parents contact?

4. What was Helen allowed to do for the first time with the Tuscumbia school children?

5. In what year did Anne Sullivan come to teach Helen?

(see the answer key)

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