"The Story of My Life" Test Review

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

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CCSS.RL.7.1

According to the selection from The Story of My Life, how does Keller feel the night following her discovery of language?

• full of joy

• full of despair

• full of anxiety

• full of jealousy

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What would a child most likely do to imitate her sister’s behavior?

• tell others about it

• make fun of it

• try to copy it

• ignore it

In order to be accurately called a mystery, what must something be?

• tragic

• joyous

• boring

• puzzling

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of these situations would most likely present barriers to learning to sing?

• having a sweet-sounding voice

• having a good teacher

• joining a chorus

• being tone-deaf

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

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

In the selection from The Story of My Life, what personal quality is most responsible for Keller’s success in learning to use words?

• enthusiasm

• compassion

• impatience

• humor

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which of the following excerpts from The Story of My Life best supports the personal quality Helen had about learning?

• I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.

• Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that “m-u-g” is mug and that “w-a-t-e-r” is water, but I persisted in confounding the two.

• As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly.

• I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

CCSS.RL.7.2

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.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

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.

• The narrator is unknown.

• The narrator is untrustworthy.

• Keller’s teacher is the narrator.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

CCSS.RL.7.6