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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. What does Helen indicate she felt after he tantrums passed?
(a) Something like anger.
(b) Something like release.
(c) Something like regret.
(d) Something like relief.

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

3. How did Helen feel as her vocabulary increased?
(a) Resigned to always be an outsider.
(b) More a part of the world.
(c) Sad that she couldn't learn fast enough.
(d) As if she knew everything.

4. What subject did Helen not like?
(a) Science.
(b) Writing.
(c) Math.
(d) Reading.

5. Where is Fern Quarry located?
(a) River.
(b) Prairre.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why weren't many people near where Helen lived aware of resources for the blind and deaf?

2. What did Helen need to learn about the spellings Annie was completing in her hand?

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

4. What was Sullivan trying to teach Helen the difference between when Helen became extremely frustrated?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Helen's friends react to her desire to learn to speak and why did they react this way?

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

3. What happened during the rest of the summer as Helen's vocabulary grew?

4. What happened to Helen, Mildred and Miss Sullivan as they tried to find their way home when they were lost in the woods?

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

6. How did Helen feel about many of her professors' methods for teaching the great works of literature?

7. What happened when Helen arrived at the Perkins Institute and how did that make her feel?

8. How did Helen take her preliminary exams to enter Radcliffe College?

9. How did Helen feel about her Latin lessons?

10. What were some of the things Helen enjoyed doing outside when she wasn't reading?

(see the answer keys)

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