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Helen Keller

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Hellen Keller was a healthy baby girl born in _____________, _____________ in 1880.

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Tuscumbia, Alabama

c)

Tucson, Arizona

d)

Tallahassee, Florida

2.

When Helen was a baby, just ____ __________ old, she became terribly sick.

a)

19 months

b)

32 months

c)

19 years

d)

32 years

3.

While she was sick, she lost both her __________ and ____________.

a)

smell and touch

b)

taste and smell

c)

vision and hearing

d)

vision and touch

4.

It was difficult for Helen as she grew up. She could not learn language naturally. She became very angry and miserable child and would throw _______ fits.

a)

happy

b)

violent

c)

sad

d)

silent

5.

Helen's parents knew they needed to find some way to help their daughter. They found a teacher and her name was ______ ________________.

a)

Anne Sullivan

b)

Anne Hathaway

c)

Anne Boleyn

d)

Anna Karenina

6.

Helen's teacher gave her a ______ then sign the letters into her hands.

a)

Candy

b)

Doll

c)

Milk

d)

Water

7.

One day, her teacher had a brilliant idea. She rushed Helen to the this pump and ran the ________ over Helen's hand while constantly repeating this word into her hand.

a)

M-I-L-K

b)

D-O-L-L

c)

W-A-T-E-R

d)

C-A-N-D-Y

8.

Helen remembers that it took a while before she could start to understand some words that were not objects. Words like __________ and ___________.

a)

love, think

b)

feel, sad

c)

happy, angry

d)

lonely, excited

9.

One day, she saw that Helen was thinking about a pattern of beads she was stringing, her teacher quickly signed the letters for ________ right onto Helen's forehead.

a)

love

b)

think

c)

feel

d)

sad

10.

Helen went on to learn the ___________ alphabet-- a special alphabet made of raised dots.

a)

Morse code

b)

Phoenician

c)

Greek

d)

Braille

11.

Braille alphabet was developed by ________ __________, who lived in France in the early 1800s and became blind as a young boy.

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Louis Braille

d)

Louis Vuitton

12.

Helen had two typewriters she used, one was _____________ typewriter and the other was a special ____________ typewritter.

a)

regular, Braille

b)

regular, computer

c)

regular, morse code

d)

regular, ipad

13.

Her first book was about her memories from childhood and her journey from having no language to learning not only the signing alphabet, but also __________, __________, and __________.

a)

Mandarin, Japanese, Filipino

b)

Thai, Vietnamese, Korean

c)

French, German and Latin

d)

Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

14.

It is the most popular sign language for the Deaf in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in parts of Mexico.

a)

British Sign Language

b)

American Sign Language

c)

Canadian Sign Language

d)

Spanish Sign Language

15.

What is this 6-letter word which means a conscious exertion of power : hard work a job requiring time.

a)

Effort

b)

Honesty

c)

Desire

d)

Love