ASL I Helen Keller Per 1

Question 0

Which of the following words best describes Captain Keller’s personality?

Answer 0

Impulsive, hot headed, and controlling

Question 1

According to the documentary, Helen woke up each day at _______ a.m.

Answer 1

5

Question 2

Helen was born in the year ________

Answer 2

1880

Question 3

Helen’s favorite mode of communicating with hearing people was

Answer 3

Talking

Question 4

How did Annie and Polly communicate with Helen?

Answer 4

They signed in her hand.

Question 5

According to the documentary what book did Helen read first thing in the morning and last thing at night?

Answer 5

Bible

Question 6

Helen said of the opera singers song, “It is beautiful like…”

Answer 6

My daily prayer

Question 7

Why did Helen enjoyed shopping in the city?

Answer 7

Because she liked the vibrations under her feet

Question 8

After Helen woke up, had breakfast, made her bed, she began her work for the day. This work day started at what time?

Answer 8

8 am

Question 9

What was the name of Helen’s first teacher?

Answer 9

Anne Sullivan

Question 10

Where did Annie take Helen away to so she could start teaching her to be dependent on only her?

Answer 10

A hunting cabin

Question 11

How old was Anne when she first came to live with the Keller’s?

Answer 11

20

Question 12

Where did Helen dispose of the key after she locked Anne in her room?

Answer 12

The well

Question 13

Where did the Keller’s want to put Helen before Anne came?

Answer 13

An asylum

Question 14

How did Anne get Helen’s attention when she first met her?

Answer 14

Anne dropped her suitcase next to Helen.

Question 15

When did the first major battle of wills happen between Anne and Helen?

Answer 15

The first breakfast.

Question 16

What year did Helen Keller’s documentary receive an Oscar from the Academy Awards?

Answer 16

1955

Question 16

What three senses did Helen have left?

Answer 16

Taste, Touch, and Smell

Question 17

What did Helen say was her greatest sorrow?

Answer 17

That she never learned to speak normally.

Question 18

What was Helen’s duty with the dishes in the kitchen?

Answer 18

She dried the dishes, and told Paulie when she missed a spot.

Question 19

How long was the hand rail along Helen’s property where she would take her walk.

Answer 19

1,000 feet

Question 20

When Helen’s friends came over she liked to talk about ______ and ________

Answer 20

World events and politics .

Question 21

Which of Helen’s senses did she say she would choose if she could have one back?

Answer 21

Hearing.

Question 22

What phrase did Helen repeat over and over to herself when she got stage fright the first time she
spoke to a group of people?

Answer 22

What shall I do?

Question 22

Helen learned to read in how many languages?

Answer 22

Five

Question 23

In 1919 Helen went to Hollywood to star in a movie about her life titled “_____”

Answer 23

Deliverance

Question 24

How old was Helen when Anne met her?

Answer 24

6 years 8 months

Question 25

When Helen learned to talk she felt the letters ___, ____ with her thumb.

Answer 25

G, K

Question 26

When Helen learned to talk she felt the letters ___, ____ with her index finger.

Answer 26

B, T

Question 27

When Helen learned to talk she felt the letters ___, ____ with her middle finger.

Answer 27

M, N

Question 28

After only ___ lessons, Helen learned to say the sentence “______”

Answer 28

7 , I’m not dumb now

Question 29

The Braille typewriter has ___ keys, ____ on each side.

Answer 29

6, three on each side

Question 30

When Helen would write personal letters she would

Answer 30

Use a normal typewriter

Question 31

Anne married a man named ______.

Answer 31

John Macy

Question 32

Where did Helen live after Anne got married?

Answer 32

With Anne and John Macy

Question 33

When Helen wrote her speeches for her speaking engagements, she would

Answer 33

Use a Braille typewriter

Question 34

In 1936 Annie Sullivan died after ____ years of service to Helen

Answer 34

50

Question 35

The Japanese created a shrine in honor of _______________

Answer 35

Anne Sullivan

Question 36

Helen became Deaf and Blind at the age of ________

Answer 36

18 months

Question 37

Which President did Helen ask to feel his face?

Answer 37

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)

Question 38

After reading her mail and the morning headlines, Helen goes to her study to work on her research for her books and speeches. She locates the books by

Answer 38

Braille titles on the binding of the books

Question 39

What often distracts Helen when she is about her household duties?

Answer 39

The radio

Question 40

When Helen first learned fingerspelling meant words, she asked Annie, “Who are you?” and Annie
spelled ______ into her hand

Answer 40

Teacher

Question 41

Why did Annie wake up Percy in the middle of the night?

Answer 41

To make Hellen Keller jealous

Question 42

What did Annie and Jimmy play with in the asylum since they had no toys?

Answer 42

Rats