The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A According to the selection from The Story of My Life, how does Keller
at first view Miss Sullivan’s efforts to spell words into her hand?

Question 1 options:

as an exchange of information

as a means of disciplining her

as an annoying interruption

as an amusing activity

Question 2 (2 points)
Part B Which of the following sentences from The Story of My Life best
supports the answer to Part A?

Question 2 options:

I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it.

One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big
rag doll into my lap also, spelled “d-o-l-l” and tried to make me understand
that “d-o-l-l” applied to both.

Earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words “m-u-g” and
“w-a-t-e-r.”

I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I
dashed it upon the floor.

Question 3 (2 points)
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and
then Part B.
Part A In the selection from The Story of My Life, what personal quality is
most responsible for Keller’s success in learning to use words?

Question 3 options:

enthusiasm

compassion

impatience

humor

Question 4 (2 points)
Part B Which of the following excerpts from The Story of My Life best
supports the answer to Part A?

Question 4 options:

I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was
simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.

Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that “m-u-g” is mug and that
“w-a-t-e-r” is water, but I persisted in confounding the two.

As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the
word water, first slowly, then rapidly.

I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.

Question 5 (2 points)
In the selection from The Story of My Life, Keller begins to learn to
communicate. What “strange, new sight” comes to her then?

Question 5 options:

She feels love for the very first time in her life.

She realizes that she is able to see with eyeglasses.

She discovers that she can picture objects in her mind.

She understands that everything has a name and has value.