Here are five questions from the first five chapters of The Story of My Life:
- Chapter One: Who was Helen Keller named after? (Answer: She was named after her grandmother, Helen Adams.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.")
- 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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