The Story of My Life

Helen Keller describes someone "who had come to reveal all things to me." This person is...

• her friend

• her brother

• Anne Sullivan

• her father

"Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as a of something forgotten -- a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me." This quote is Helen Keller describing when she finally realized that words were connected to objects. What word did she learn?

• water

• doll

• mug

• coat

In the excerpt from "The Story of My Life," the teacher's name is Helen Keller

• True

• False

How old was Helen Keller when she met Anne Sullivan?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible (touchable) white darkness shut you in..." is Helen Keller describing...

• what life was like before her education began

• describes how lonely she felt

• describes how confused she felt

Helen Keller confounded (was confused) that words could connect to specific objects and that the things were connected. What 2 words did she struggle with or confound?

• doll and water

• mug and doll

• water and wheel

• mug and water

Helen Keller, impatient at learning m-u-g and w-a-t-e-r did what?

• stole the doll from Anne Sullivan

• broke her doll by throwing it on the floor

• ran upstairs and locked her bedroom door

• began yelling

What does Anne Sullivan bring Helen in this following passage? "She brought me my ________________, and I knew I was going out into the warm sunshine

• doll

• water

• hat

• coat

Helen Keller felt repentance for the first time about the doll she broke after she learned what water was.

• True

• False

Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words “m-u-g” and “w-a-t-e-r.” 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. Based on the context clues, what does the word confounding mean?

• explaining a mood

• confusing the words

• expecting to know

• understanding the words