Helen Keller CFA

Based on how the author uses the word "immeasurable" in line 3, you can tell that the suffix 'able' means?

• an action or process

• without

• full of

• can be done

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Choose a context clue from the passage that helps readers determine the meaning of the word "contrasts" on line 3 of the passage. ​

• filled with wonder
• immeasurable
• three months before
• between the two lives

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Based on the details used in paragraph 3, the speaker uses a metaphor and a simile to compare herself to which of the following?

• a ship

• the fog

• the harbor

• a light

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How would you describe the author's tone towards Anne Sullivan when she first meets her?

• calm

• unemotional

• fearful

• curious

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Which line below supports your answer about author's tone when Helen first meets Anne Sullivan?

• I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs.

• I was like a ship before my education began.

• The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle.

• I stood on the porch, wondering, expectant.

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What is the author's overall purpose of the entire piece?

• to persuade readers to meet new people.

• to entertain readers with a story about a ship.

• to inform readers about the first time Helen Keller met Anne Sullivan.

• to inform readers about a struggle that Helen Keller faced as a child.

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What important event does Helen Keller describe in this passage?

• Meeting her teacher for the first time

• being on a ship

• helping her mom clean the house

• her 7th birthday

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There are two phrases below that the author uses to express Helen's feelings about meeting Anne for the first time. What are they?

• guessed vaguely

• the most important day

• the light of love shown on me

• the third of March 1887

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According to Helen Keller, what do the compass and the light represent in paragraph 3?

• herself

• her mom

• being educated by Anne

• being lost in the fog

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