The Miracle Worker

What can the reader infer from the following text? (Line 2)

• The family room contains beautiful furniture.

• Helen uses her sense of touch to navigate her surroundings.

• The family room is the family’s favorite gathering place.

• Helen’s favorite person is Viney.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which line from the play best illustrates Annie’s efforts to teach Helen?

• “It took us the best part of two weeks and— ”

• “It took us the best part of two weeks and— ”

• “But what’s the child done?”

• “I’ve always suspected those hens.”

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I’ve always suspected those hens.”

• James hopes Annie will understand that he is Jacob in the story of Jacob and the angel.

• James wants to express his love for Annie by telling her the story of Jacob and the angel.

• James believes the relationship between Annie and Helen is like the struggle between Jacob and the angel.

• James thinks he can teach Annie a lesson about Christianity.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

What does the phrase out of joint most likely mean, according to the following passage?

• o be highly upset.

• To be highly amused.

• To be tearful.

• To be a vegetarian.

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which inference can be best made about Helen Keller?

• A. She is amused.

• She shows defiance.

• She hates her family.

• She dislikes her father.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which line from the play most strongly supports the answer to question 5?

• “…she pats her flank approvingly.”

• “…ANNIE puts a napkin around HELEN.”

• “She bends to retrieve it, but ANNIE stops her…”

• “…for the third time puts the napkin on HELEN.”

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is most likely Annie Sullivan’s “main worry”?

• That the family will discontinue the discipline Helen has recently learned.

• That James Keller will disrespect his daughter.

• That Helen will ruin the family’s evening meals.

• That Aunt Ev will punish Helen too harshly when she misbehaves at the dinner table

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which line from the play most strongly supports the answer to question 7?

• What do you wish to do?”

• “There’s an awful lot of things in the Good Book that I wouldn’t care to hear just before eating.”

• “Will once hurt so much, Miss Annie?”

• “Oh, I should say so, you know my opinion of your pickles—”

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Vocabulary definition: bound

• likely to happen

  
  

  
  

• 
  to ponder or consider carefully

• on purpose; intentionally

• 
  to lean or bend toward something

• to obtain an object and return it to its original location

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

contemplate

• on purpose; intentionally

• to ponder or consider carefully

• to lean or bend toward something

• 
  to obtain an object and return it to its original location

• energetically or forcefully

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4