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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 did Helen need to learn about the spellings Annie was completing in her hand?
(a) That it was one object.
(b) That they were the names of things.
(c) That she had to pay attention to Annie.
(d) That the letters all went together.

2. What did Helen's learning feel like to her?
(a) Formal.
(b) Play.
(c) Work.
(d) Being freed.

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

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

5. Where did most of Helen's reading and studying take place?
(a) Bedroom.
(b) Dining room.
(c) School.
(d) Outside.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Helen's favorite Christmas present?

3. Where did Helen and her family travel for their vacation?

4. Why did Helen's family tend to let her have her own way whenever possible?

5. What did Helen need to learn how to recognize and communicate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Helen's tantrums change and how did this make most of her family and friends feel?

3. At age nine, what did Helen experience for the first time?

4. Where did Helen attend school for the next two years?

5. What was a first for Helen when she attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies?

6. After the fever what memories about sight and sound did Helen have left?

7. What disappointed Helen about her time at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf?

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

9. What happened nine months after Anne Sullivan arrived at Helen's home?

10. What happened to Helen when she was waiting for Anne to bring Helen lunch?

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