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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen enjoy at museums and art stores?
(a) The atmosphere.
(b) Other people's descriptions.
(c) Feeling the sculptures.
(d) Touching the paintings.

2. Which professor does Helen praise for not obscuring the great works?
(a) German professor.
(b) Latin professor.
(c) Shakespeare professor.
(d) English literature professor.

3. What motivated Helen to want to speak clearly and articulately?
(a) So Mildred could understand her.
(b) So that she could communicate with those that could not fingerspell.
(c) So that she could give speeches.
(d) So that she could learn more information faster.

4. When Helen took the exams to enter Radcliffe College what subjects did she earn honors in?
(a) German and science.
(b) German and English.
(c) English and geography.
(d) Geography and science.

5. What was Helen given permission to do at the World's Fair?
(a) Visit things others could not visit.
(b) Touch the exhibits.
(c) Enter areas reserved for dignitaries.
(d) Go places women were not allowed with Dr. Bell.

6. What made math more difficult for Helen?
(a) The books were not ready for her.
(b) She refused to put forth the effort as she did not enjoy the subject.
(c) She did not understand math.
(d) Anne was not allowed to translate in the math classes.

7. Who was Ragnhild Kaata?
(a) Principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
(b) A deaf and blind girl who learned to talk.
(c) A deaf girl who learned to talk.
(d) A teacher who could help her learn to talk.

8. How does her lack of sight and hearing sometimes make Helen feel?
(a) Gifted.
(b) Resigned.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Alone.

9. What did Helen have to wait for before she could do her algebra, geometry and physics?
(a) To finish her other courses.
(b) Her mother to bring up materials.
(c) To buy a braillewriter.
(d) Anne to get better.

10. What did Helen's patrons in London and Philadelphia work to have done for Helen?
(a) Textbooks embossed in raised print.
(b) Another interpreter besides Anne.
(c) Exams translated.
(d) Girls her own age who learned fingerspelling.

11. What lead to a sort of awakening for Helen?
(a) Her visits with young children.
(b) Her visits with actors and actresses.
(c) Her visits to the poor.
(d) Her isolated walks.

12. Why doesn't Helen take notes during classes?
(a) Her hands are busy listening.
(b) She cannot write.
(c) Her teacher's do not allow it.
(d) She doesn't have a Braille typewriter.

13. How many sessions did Helen have to learn the elements of speech?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 28.
(d) 30.

14. Which of the following subjects was not one described by Helen as one she had an interest in?
(a) German
(b) History.
(c) French literature.
(d) Geography.

15. How old was Helen when she was able to fingerspell, read raised print, read Braille and speak English?
(a) 15.
(b) 13.
(c) 18.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Mr. Gilman, the principal, take over instructing Helen in?

2. What is Helen's favorite pastime when she is not reading?

3. Which of the following questions is not answered in chapter twelve?

4. What kept Helen from being lonely at Cambridge?

5. What does Helen acquaint beauty and music with?

(see the answer keys)

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