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The Miracle Worker Act I

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 57mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what time period is the scene from 'The Miracle Worker' set?

a)

1920s

b)

1880s

c)

1950s

d)

1990s

2.

What is the setting in The Miracle Worker? (p. xiii)

a)

Massachussetts

b)

Alabama

c)

Pennsylvania

3.

Who is Kate?

a)

Helen's Teacher

b)

Helen's Mother

c)

Helen's Aunt

4.

Who is Captain Keller?

a)

Captain of a ship

b)

Helen's brother

c)

Helen's father

5.
Helen's teacher
a)
Viney
b)
Aunt Ev
c)
James
d)
Annie Sullivan
6.

What does Kate realize at the beginning of Act 1?

a)

Helen has an irregular heartbeat

b)

Helen has cancer

c)

Helen cannot see or hear

7.

Who is the young teacher trained to work with the blind and deaf in 'The Miracle Worker'?

a)

Helen Keller

b)

Annie Sullivan

c)

Kate Keller

d)

Viney

8.
When Helen wants Aunt Ev’s doll to have eyes, we can infer that she:
a)
is very observant
b)
is not very smart
c)
does not like attention
d)
enjoys being different
9.
What does Mr. Anagnos mean when he says that Helen is "like a little safe, locked, that no one can open"?
a)
Helen frequently steals money from her family
b)
Helen is worth a lot of money
c)
Everything Helen wants to say or what she is thinking cannot be expressed
d)
She is mute because she chooses to be that way
10.
Which of the following characters is the "boy's voice" that talks to Annie?
a)
Jimmie, her dead brother 
b)
James Keller
c)
Anagnos
d)
Captain Keller
11.

What is the first word that Annie teaches Helen to spell? (p. 29 - 30)

a)

Doll

b)

Dog

c)

Cake

12.

6. What can the reader infer from the following text?

[Now in the family room the rear door opens, and HELEN steps in. She stands a moment, then sniffs in one deep grateful breath, and her hands go out vigorously to familiar things, over the door panels, and to the chairs around the table, and over the silverware on the table, until she meets VINEY; she pats her flank approvingly.]

a)

The family room contains beautiful furniture.

b)

Helen uses her sense of touch to navigate her surroundings.

c)

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

d)

Helen’s favorite person is Viney.

13.

Stage directions are the dialogue of the play

a)

False

b)

True

14.

What does deliberately mean?

a)

to ponder or consider something carefully?

b)

forcefully

c)

to do something on purpose

d)

likely to happen

15.
Who is the young male helper at the Keller estate and Martha's older brother?
a)
Percy
b)
James
c)
Jimmie
d)
Keller
16.
An official at Perkins, a friend of Annie's
a)
James
b)
Percy
c)
Anagnos
d)
Viney