"Water"

Which statement tells you the "Water" is a narrative essay?

• The author describes events from her childhood
• The author uses vivid language
• The author includes dialogue in the essay.
• The author includes opinions and facts.

In "Water", which sense dos Helen Keller seem to use most?

• taste
• smell
• hearing
• touch

In "Water" , how does Helen feel right after she breaks her new doll?

• sad
• delighted
• scared
• angry

When you reflect on an experience, you think about it. Which passage from "Water" is an example of Helen reflecting on something that happened? 

• The little blind children at the Perkins Center had sent it.
• ......we had a tussle over the words, "Mug", and "water". 
• I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces.
• I lay in  my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought. 

What is the first word Helen understands?

• doll
• mother
• water
• teacher

Which action in "Water" directly causes Helen to learn her first word?

• spelling words into her mother's hand
• walking in the garden 
• having water from the pump flow over her hand
• picking up pieces of the broken doll.

For Helen, the thought of going  out into the warm sunshine....

• prompted her to run from Miss Sullivan
• made her reacher for her hat
• frightened her
• gave her joy

Helen Keller's essay "Water" is an example of 

• an expository essay that gives information
• a narrative essay that tells a true story
• a descriptive essay that creates a picture
• a persuasive essay 

In "Water", Helen includes all of the following EXCEPT.....

• events
• statistics
• thoughts and feelings
• comments on her experience

Near the end of "Water", Helen Keller tells about trying to put her broken doll together again. What does this event tell the reader?

• Helen has become capable of feeling repentance and sorrow.
• Helen had decided to change her life and become a better person
• Helen now cares what Miss Sullivan thinks of her, and she wants to please her.
• Helen didn't realize how difficult it would be to right a wrong.