Literature Revision

According to the selection from The Story of My Life, how does Keller mainly perceive her surroundings?

• through her sense of hearing

• through her sense of touch

• through her sense of smell

• through her sense of taste

In the selection from The Story of My Life, why does Keller break the new doll that Miss Sullivan gives her?

• She wants to anger Miss Sullivan

• She wants Miss Sullivan to give her a different doll.

• She does not like the new doll as much as her old rag doll.

• She feels impatient with Miss Sullivan’s attempts to teach her words.

. In the selection from The Story of My Life, why does Keller feel pleasure when Miss Sullivan brings her hat to her?

• She loves wearing hats.

• She has learned how to spell “h-a-t.”

• She knows that she will be going outside.

• She enjoys the feeling of the hat on her head.

According to the selection from The Story of My Life, which action directly causes Keller to understand the concept of language?

• walking in the garden with Miss Sullivan to feel the sunshine

• tracing the shapes of letters on her hand and showing her mother

• picking up pieces of a broken doll and trying to put them together

• having water flow over her hand and then learning to spell water

According to the selection from The Story of My Life, how does Keller at first view Miss Sullivan’s efforts to spell words into her hand?

• as an exchange of information

• as a means of disciplining her

• as an annoying interruption

• as an amusing activity

In the selection from The Story of My Life, Keller begins to learn to communicate. What “strange, new sight” comes to her then?

• She feels love for the very first time in her life

• She realizes that she is able to see with eyeglasses.

• She discovers that she can picture objects in her mind

• She understands that everything has a name and has value

How do readers know the selection from The Story of My Life is written using the first-person point of view?

• Keller is the narrator, and she uses the pronoun "I".

• The narrator is unknown.

• The narrator is untrustworthy.

• Keller’s teacher is the narrator.

Which of the following choices best states Keller’s purpose for writing the selection from The Story of My Life?

• to entertain readers with a moving personal story and to persuade them to help blind people.

• to inform readers about an important event in her life and to express her emotions about it.

• to inform readers about the qualities of a good teacher and to reflect on those qualities.

• to persuade readers to help deaf children and to describe a deaf child’s life.

Read this excerpt from The Story of My Life. "Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst. I had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness." -Which word in the excerpt best conveys a bleak, unhappy tone?

• passionate

• dark

• strong

• sentiment

.In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, what are the characters selling?

• belongings they cannot carry on their journey

• extra food they have in their pantry.

• assistance for people moving away.

• the house they no longer plan to live in.