The Miracle Worker Act I Quiz Review

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.

SMALLEST CHILD [MOURNFULLY]: Don’t go, Annie, to her.

ANNIE [HER ARM AROUND HER]: Sarah, dear. I don’t want to go.

SMALLEST CHILD: Then why are you going?

ANNIE [GENTLY]: Because I’m a big girl now, and big girls have to earn a living.

Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?

• Annie explains her reasons for leaving and taking a job, and then the girls beg her to reconsider.

• One of the girls encourages Annie to stay, and Annie explains that it is time for her to begin working.

• One of the girls is overly emotional and unable to say good-bye, so Annie explains the situation.

• Annie tells the girls that she must take the teaching job, because the Perkins School has too many students.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.

CHILDREN: Open it! Everyone be quiet! Do, Annie! She’s opening it. Ssh!

(A setting of silence while ANNIE unwraps it. The present is a pair of smoked glasses, and she stands still.)

Is it open, Annie?

ANNIE: It’s open.

CHILDREN: It’s for your eyes, Annie. Put them on, Annie! ’Cause Mrs. Hopkins said your eyes hurt since the operation. And she said you’re going where the sun is fierce.

Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?

• Annie opens a pair of special glasses from the girls, and the girls explain how this present will help Annie.

• The girls voice concerns about the sun’s harmful rays, and then they show Annie her special glasses.

• Annie receives a pair of dark glasses from the girls that are helpful, despite their unattractive appearance.

• The girls offer Annie smoked glasses to protect her eyes from ultraviolet radiation, which causes cataracts.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

Read this student summary of Act I of The Miracle Worker.

Act I introduces Annie Sullivan as she says good-bye to Anagnos, a kind man who has helped her for many years. Annie is leaving the Perkins School for the Blind, a school named for a visually impaired shipping merchant from Boston. She and Anagnos discuss her new assignment, and Annie is curious about teaching a young blind girl. At the end of Act I, the other Perkins students enter to offer Annie presents and bid her farewell.

Which statement contains a detail that should be eliminated to improve this summary?

• Act I introduces Annie Sullivan as she says good-bye to Anagnos, a kind man who has helped her for many years.

• Annie is leaving the Perkins School for the Blind, a school named for a visually impaired shipping merchant from Boston.

• She and Anagnos discuss her new assignment, and Annie is curious about teaching a young blind girl.

• At the end of Act I, the other Perkins students enter to offer Annie presents and bid her farewell.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.

ANNIE [CHEERILY]: I think God must owe me a resurrection.

ANAGNOS [A BIT SHOCKED]: What?

ANNIE [TAPS HER BROW]: Well, He keeps digging up that battle!

ANAGNOS: That is not a proper thing to say, Annie. It is what I mean.

ANNIE [MEEKLY]: Yes. But I know what I’m like, what’s this child like?

Which element of drama does the author use with the words in brackets?

• dialogue that reveals a sense of humor

• stage directions that describe the scenery

• stage directions that reveal emotion

• dialogue that reveals a close friendship

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7