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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following could be considered the theme of chapter five?
(a) Mixed blessings.
(b) Child's innocence.
(c) Hope.
(d) On-going learning.

2. Why was Helen's small vocabulary of signs not enough?
(a) She grew and so did her need to express herself.
(b) She could not use them fast enough.
(c) Many people thought they were inappropriate.
(d) Enough people did not understand them.

3. Helen's account of learning to make the connection between the spellings and objects is a snapshot of what?
(a) How fondly Helen looks on her teacher.
(b) The difference between student and teacher.
(c) How work pays off.
(d) How creative discoveries are made.

4. What did Helen compare the trip she took to?
(a) A great adventure.
(b) A fairy tale.
(c) A bible story.
(d) An unveiling.

5. Which of the following best describes Helen's relationship with Martha as they played together?
(a) Sharing.
(b) Bullying.
(c) Loving.
(d) Liberating.

6. What took Helen's sight and hearing?
(a) Seizure.
(b) Fever.
(c) Animal.
(d) Accident.

7. What abstract term did it take a very long time for Helen to understand?
(a) Think.
(b) Concentrate.
(c) Love.
(d) Solve.

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

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

10. What did Helen's aunt make for her?
(a) A cane made out of jewels.
(b) A doll made out of towels.
(c) A new dress for her trip to the doctor.
(d) A necklace made out beads.

11. In what state was Helen born?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Maine.
(c) Alabama.
(d) New York.

12. Why didn't Helen have any fits of temper while she was with her parents on the trip to see the eye doctor?
(a) She was terrified of leaving her home and seeing the doctor.
(b) Her parents gave her some medication to keep her calm.
(c) There were so many things to keep her mind and fingers busy.
(d) Her mother and father gave into all of her desires and whims.

13. Who best understood Helen's first limited sign language?
(a) Her nurse.
(b) Her father.
(c) No one.
(d) Her mother.

14. What did Helen learn to fear?
(a) Her teacher.
(b) The power of nature.
(c) Her half-brothers.
(d) Being alone with no one to help her communicate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What caused Helen's tantrums to increase in severity?

3. How did Helen and Anne spend he rest of the day after Helen made the connection between the finger spelling and objects?

4. Which of the following best describes Helen's sense when she first makes the connection that the spellings are the names of things?

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

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