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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cared for the canary?
(a) Helen's mother.
(b) Helen.
(c) Martha.
(d) Anne.

2. What was Helen allowed to do for the first time with the Tuscumbia school children?
(a) Give the children their gifts.
(b) Hang stockings.
(c) Decorate the tree.
(d) Sing Christmas carols.

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

4. Where would Helen sit to be splashed by the waves?
(a) Where the waves broke in the water.
(b) On a large rock.
(c) On the sand.
(d) In a beach chair.

5. What did Anne go to get while Helen was waiting for her to return?
(a) Doll.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Book.
(d) Lunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following could be considered the theme of chapter five?

2. What animal does Helen drag home?

3. What subject was Helen able to learn about while on her trip?

4. Why did Sullivan take Helen outside?

5. What was the first the first word Helen connected with the spelling?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Helen feel about Shakespeare and how did her feelings change from the time she was a child to an young adult?

2. What did Helen find frustrating about her second year at Gilman's school?

3. How does Helen describe her feelings about her tree friends?

4. Why did Anne take Helen outside when she went into a rage and broke her new doll?

5. What became one of Helen's favorite pastimes?

6. What was Helen doing when Anne taught her the concept of what it meant to think?

7. What allowed Helen to forget all of the controversy about her plagiarism?

8. What happened to Helen's canary?

9. What happened as a result of the plagiarizing incident for Helen?

10. What caused Helen great pain at first at the Perkins Institute and then what changed her mind?

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