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WorksheetsHelen Keller Language
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Through which sense does Helen mainly perceive her surroundings?
hearing
touch
smell
taste
Why does Helen break the doll that Miss Sullivan gives her?
She wants to anger Miss Sullivan.
She wants 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.
Why does Helen feel pleasure when Miss Sullivan brings her hat?
She loves wearing hats.
She has learned how to spell "h-a-t".
She knows that she will be going outside.
She enjoys the feel of the hat on her head.
Which action directly causes Helen to understand the concept of language?
walking in the garden 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 learning to spell water
How does Helen feel the night following her discovery of language?
full of joy
full of despair
full of anxiety
full of jealousy
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
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
In order to be accurately called a mystery, what must something be?
tragic
joyous
boring
puzzling
How does Keller at first view Miss Sullivan's efforts to spell words into her hands?
as an exchange of information
as a means of disciplining her
as an annoying interruption
as an amusing activity
Which one supports the theory that Helen found spelling into her hands an amusing activity?
I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it.
Miss Sullivan tried to make me understand "doll".
We had a tussle over the words "mug" and "water".
I became impatient and threw the doll onto the floor.
What personal quality is most responsible for Keller's success in learning to use words?
enthusiasm
compassion
impatience
humor
How do you know that Helen had enthusiasm for learning words?
She was simply imitating the words.
She persisted in confusing the words.
Miss Sullivan spelled words into her hands.
She left the well-house eager to learn because she realized everything had a name.
After Helen learned to communicate, what "strange, new sight" comes to her?
She feels love for the first time.
She realizes that she will be able to see with glasses.
She discovers that she can picture objects in her mind.
She understands that everything has a name and has value.
How do you know the story 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.
What were Keller's two purposes for writing the selection?
entertain and persuade
inform and express her emotions
inform and reflect
persuade and inform
What is the meaning of the Greek root "myst"?
longing
sorrow
secret
water
The suffix "fy" or "ify" means "to cause to become". What do you think mystify means?
puzzle
attract
answer
disappoint
Which sentence has an underlined independent clause?
When Helen Keller was only nineteen months old, she became both blind and deaf.
She learned to communicate because Miss Sullivan worked tirelessly with her.
Determined to attend college, Keller graduated from Radcliffe with honors.
Due to her many achievements, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
What you may not know is that Miss Sullivan, who had attended the Perkins Institution, had vision problems, although she was not completely blind. Which group of words is a relative clause?
What you may not know
who had attended the Perkins Institution
had vision problems
although she was not completely blind
Which of these sentences contains a noun clause?
When Helen was in the well-house, her teacher put her hand under the spout.
The teacher, whose name was Miss Sullivan, spelled out the letters for water.
At first Helen imitated the finger play without really understanding it.
Helen eventually understood what the letters for water meant.
Because Keller could use finger signs, she could attend school with a companion who communicated what the teacher was saying. Which group of words is an adverb clause?
Because Keller could use finger signs
she could attend school with a companion
who communicated what the teacher was saying
what the teacher was saying
What is the main similarity between the video and the selection from The Story of My Life?
Both the video and the selection provide insight into Keller's thoughts and feelings.
Both the video and the selection reveal ways that Keller learned to communicate.
Both the video and the selection convey Keller's frustrations in learning to share her ideas.
Both the video and the selection explain why communication was important to Keller.
What does the video reveal (you infer this) about Miss Sullivan beyond what is presented in the story?
Miss Sullivan was a skilled and persistent teacher.
Miss Sullivan used the sense of touch to teach Keller.
Miss Sullivan wanted Keller to learn to communicate.
Miss Sullivan and Keller had a long-lasting relationship.
