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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 relief.
(c) Something like release.
(d) Something like regret.

2. Why didn't Helen have any fits of temper while she was with her parents on the trip to see the eye doctor?
(a) Her parents gave her some medication to keep her calm.
(b) She was terrified of leaving her home and seeing the doctor.
(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.

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

4. How did Helen first begin to show she could read the words presented to her by Anne?
(a) She would give the appropriate card to Anne.
(b) She would attach the correct word to the object.
(c) She would go and find the object on the card.
(d) She would fingerspell the object Anne gave her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character does Helen indicate she was very jealous of?

2. At whose home did Helen and Anne stay?

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

4. What was the first book Helen read from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Helen's canary?

3. When Helen began reading her first book, how did she start out?

4. What ashamed Helen about her math classes at Gilman's school?

5. When Helen's parents took her to Baltimore, how did Helen feel about the trip?

6. What happened to Helen the first time she was in the ocean?

7. Why did Helen become restless and frustrated?

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

9. Who was Helen's father and mother and what information does she share about them?

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

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