Thursday, 4 September 2014

Can you help me write five short questions from Chapters 1-5 of Hellen Keller's The Story of My Life?

Here are five questions from the first five chapters of The Story of My Life:

  1. Chapter One: Who was Helen Keller named after? (Answer: She was named after her grandmother, Helen Adams.)

  2. Who were Helen's companions before her teacher, Anne Sullivan, arrived? (Answer: Martha Washington, an African-American girl who was the child of the cook and who understood Helen's signs, and Helen's dog, Belle, were Helen's companions.)

  3. Who was the famous person who referred Helen's parents to the Perkins Institute, the school for the blind in Boston? (Answer: Dr. Alexander Graham Bell referred the family to the Perkins Institute.)

  4. What was the present that Anne Sullivan gave Helen after she arrived at the Kellers' house in Alabama? (Answer: Anne Sullivan gave Helen a doll and then taught her to spell the word "doll.")

  5. By which river did Anne teach Helen? (Answer: Anne brought Helen to the banks of the Tennessee River to learn about nature.)

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