Water Hellen Keller

Helen Keller's two most likely purposes for writing "Water" were to?

• to entertain readers and to persuade them to help blind people

• to inform readers about an important event in her life and to express her emotions about it.

• to inform readers about the qualities of a good teacher and to reflect on those qualities.

• to inform readers about blind people and to persuade them to help.

In "Water," Keller perceives her surroundings mostly through her sense of

• sight
• hearing 
• touch 
• smell

 In "Water," why does Keller break the new doll Miss Sullivan gives her?
   

• She does not like the new doll as much as her old rag doll. 
• She wants Miss Sullivan to give her a different doll.
• She feels impatient with Miss Sullivan's attempts to teach her words.
• She wants to anger Miss Sullivan.

In "Water," how does Keller first feel after she breaks her new doll?

• delighted 
• angry 
• sad
• scared

In "Water," Keller feels pleasure when Miss Sullivan brings her hat to her because

• she enjoys the feeling of the hat on her head.
• she loves wearing hats.
• she has learned how to spell h-a-t. 
• she knows she will be going outside. 

In "Water," the first word that Keller really understands is 

• doll
• water
• teacher
• mother

In "Water," the day that Keller chooses to tell about in greatest detail is 

• the day Miss Sullivan gives her a doll.
• the day she understands the word w-a-t-e-r
• the day she learns to spell the word d-o-l-l. 
• the day she goes to school with other children.

After Keller begins to learn to communicate in "Water," what is the "strange, new sight" that comes to her?

• She realizes that she is able to see, with eyeglasses.
• She discovers that, although she is blind, she can picture objects in her mind.
• She feels love for the first time in her life.
• She understands that everything has a name, and this makes everything seem alive.

In "Water," why does Keller try to put the broken doll back together?

• She wants to please her parents.
• She now feels sorry for breaking the doll.
• She has decided to keep the doll.
• She wants to play with the doll again. 

When you reflect on an experience, you think back on the experience and recall your feelings about it. Which passage from "Water" is an example of Helen Keller's reflections on an experience?

• The little blind children at the Perkins Institute had sent it.… 
• … we had had a tussle over the words "mug" and "water."
• I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me.…