Helen Keller Life
Annie Sullivan's Teaching
Vocabulary
Multiple Choice
100
This is the year that Helen Keller died.
What is 1968?
100
This is the first word that Helen spelled with her hands.
What is doll?
100

Definition for Declaration

What is an announcement or statement?

100

Which was Helen's least favorite subject? a. Geometry b. Geography c. English d. Economics

What is A. Geometry?

200
This is the disease that caused Helen to go blind.
What is scarlett fever?
200
This is the first word that Helen can spell and knows that the word means.
What is water?
200
Explain what tangible means, and give an example.
What is something that is real, possible to touch....any furniture, people, etc....
200
Keller understands what is happening around her because: A.) she could see shadows B.) She used her other senses C.) Anne Sullivan showed her D. Her mother explained everything
What is B?
300
The is the college that Helen attended?
What is Radcliffe College?
300
This is approximately how old Annie Sullivan was when she came to teach Helen.
What is 20-21 years old?
300
This is another word for a feeling.
What is a sensation?
300
Reread this sentence from the story. "I tried vainly to put them together." IN this context, vainly means: A.) in a conceited way B.) without success C.) proudly D.) in a successful way
What is B?
400

Helen Keller's childhood friend

Martha Washington

400

The type of sign language that Anne Sullivan taught with

What is manual signing?

400
Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep __________________ had succeeded this passionate struggle. A.) plummet B.) langour C. sentiment
What is langour?
400
Which of the following would be taken from an autobiography? A.) It was the third of March B.) Someone was drawing water C.) "The Perkins Institution had sent it to me" D.) Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness
What is D?
500
This is the award that Lyndon Johnson gives Helen.
What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
500
This was the year that Annie Sullivan died?
What is 1936?
500

Definition for Desultory

What is without a plan or a reason?

500
According to the autobiography, what changed Helen Keller's life? A.) looking foward to a new day B.) hugging Annie Sullivan C.) Understanding that every object has a name D.) getting a new doll
What is C?
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