Helen Keller Part 1

Which sentence best tells what the article is mostly about?

• A girl gets very sick and becomes blind and deaf.
• A blind and deaf girl becomes angry and upset with her teacher.
• A teacher tries to help a blind and deaf girl learn how to finger spell.
• A blind and deaf girl learns how to understand the world with the help of her teacher.

Why did Helen's parents decide she needed a teacher?

• Helen had a very high fever.
• There were very few teachers in Alabama.
• They were too busy to teach Helen themselves.
• Helen needed someone to help her learn about the world.

The author uses a picture of Helen and Miss Sullivan to show...

• What finger spelling looks like
• What kind of clothes people wore at that time
• How Helen looked when she first met Miss Sullivan
• How much time Helen and miss Sullivan spent with each other

Based on the information in the article, what is Braille?

• A kind of food
• A sign in finger spelling
• Groups of raised dots that stand for letters
• A language spoken by people who are deaf

Read these sentences from the article.  Finally, Helen understood that these signs, called finger spelling, were naming the things in her world.  It was as if a light had suddenly been turned on.  The author says "a light had suddenly been turned on" to describe...

• The way Miss Sullivan taught Helen
• How Helen understood the meaning of the signs
• Something that people do while they are busy finger spelling
• Where Miss Sullivan and Helen were while they were doing their lesson

How did Helen change after Miss Sullivan came to teach her?

• She became angrier and more upset.
• She stopped playing tricks on people.
• She was able to understand things better.
• She became more attached to her mother.

Why did the Author write "Helen Keller?"

• To explain sign language
• To tell a funny story about water
• To tell readers about Helen Keller's life
• To tell readers about a teacher named Anne Sullivan

What happened AFTER Helen finished at the Perkins School for the Blind?

• She met Anne Sullivan.
• She learned to read Braille.
• She became blind and deaf.
• She went to Radcliffe College.

Read these sentences from the article.  Miss Sullivan was there with her, every step of the way.  Helen and Miss Sullivan remained companions for 49 years, until Miss Sullivan died in 1936.  The word companions mean

• friends
• readers
• students
• writers