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Passaic County Community College	Reading 1 Instructor
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HELEN KELLER: CRUSADER FOR THE BLIND AND DEAF

Review questions for Helen Keller

CHAPTER ONE: DARKNESS

Who are the important characters?
What was Helen's problem?
How did she become blind and deaf?
How did Helen behave?

CHAPTER TWO: THE STRANGER

Who are the important characters?
What was the purpose of the family trip to Maryland?
What important personality did they meet there?
Who is "the stranger."
Describe the stranger. Use words from the book.
Describe Helen's reaction to the stranger. Use words from the book.

CHAPTER THREE: W-A-T-E-R

Who are the important characters?
What did Helen do at dinnertime that Annie didn't like?
What happened that made Helen understand that she was spelling words?
What is the "magic" word?
What did Helen do after she understood that she was spelling words?

CHAPTER FOUR: DISCOVERIES

Who are the important characters?
Name three things that Helen discovered that summer.
Name three things that Helen learned to do by herself that summer.

CHAPTER FIVE: I CAN SPEAK

Who are the important characters?
How was this trip different from their previous trip?
Why did Helen and Annie stay in Boston?
What was Helen's new hope?

CHAPTER SIX: COLLEGE

Who are the important characters.
Who was Helen's new friend in New York?
What was Helen's important accomplishment in this chapter?
Who was Annie and Helen's friend in Boston? How did he help Helen?
Why was Helen worried about Annie?

CHAPTER SEVEN: A NEW CAREER

Who are the important characters.
What important event happened in Annie's life.
What career did Helen decide to pursue?
What important event happened in 1913?
What sad event happened in Annie and Helen's lives?
What new character entered Helen and Annie's lives?

CHAPTER EIGHT: WAR

Who are the important characters?
What happened in 1917 in the USA and how did that affect Helen and Annie?
What exciting new experience is Helen asked to participate in?
What exciting news came from Washington DC?
What sad event happened in Helen's life?

CHAPTER NINE: AROUND THE WORLD

Who are the important characters?
Who invited Helen to go to Japan?
What did Helen do for the Japanese?
If Helen could see for three days, what would she like to see?
What did Helen do for the blind soldiers and sailors?

CHAPTER TEN: PEACE

Who are the important characters?
When did World War II end?
When did Polly and Hlen travel to Europe?
What news did Polly and Helen receive when they were in Rome?
Name some of the ways Helen was honored through her life.
When did Helen die?
What was Helen's most beautiful book about?

THE BOOK VS. THE MOVIE

Think of FIVE differences and FIVE similarities between the book and the movie:

Example:

Similarity: Helen's parents didn't like to discipline her.
Difference: In the movie (not in the book) Helen has a brother who is at first, doesn't like her.

SARAH PLAIN AND TALL

Review Questions for Sarah Plain and Tall

CHAPTER 1:
Who is telling the story?
What question does Caleb keep asking Anna?
What has happened to Caleb and Anna's mother?
Why does Sarah feels she has to move?
Why do you think Papa has forgotten the old songs?
Why did papa put an ad in the newspaper?

CHAPTER 2:
What questions did Caleb ask Sarah in his letter?
How does Sarah describe herself in her letter?
What two things that Sarah says she likes?
Why did Sarah name her cat "Seal?"

CHAPTER 3:
What are Caleb and Anna's daily chores?
What gift did Sarah bring for Anna and Caleb?
When does Sarah feel sad?
How is the prairie like the sea?

CHAPTER 4:
What did Sarah and the kids do on their first day together?
Who is William? What does he do?
What did Sarah do with Jacob and Caleb's hair? Why?

CHAPTER 5:
Who did she name the lambs after?
What were the first words spoken by Sarah, Caleb and Anna?
What did they do with the mound of hay?

CHAPTER 6:
What did Pap teach Sarah to do?
How do the children go to school when there is little snow?
Why does papa tie a rope from the house to the barn
What did Sarah teach Anna and Caleb to do?

CHAPTER 7:
What gifts did Maggie bring for Sarah?
How does Anna know that the chickens would not be for eating?
Why do you think Maggie understands that Sarah is lonely?

CHAPTER 8:
What did Sarah say when Caleb told her that "women don't wear overhalls?
What did Sarah and Jacob do to prepare for the storm?
What was Sarah looking for during the storm?

CHAPTER 9:
What did papa teach Sarah to do?
Why does Caleb think that Sarah would not come back?
What reason does Anna tell Caleb she thinks that Sarah is coming back?
What does Sarah tell the children when she comes back that makes you think that she is going to stay?
What was in the package that Sarah brought for the family?
Why did Sarah choose those colors?

THE BOOK VS. THE MOVIE

Think of FIVE differences and FIVE similarities between the book and the movie:

Example:

Similarity: Sarah comes back from town
Difference: Jacob goes to the train station because he is afraid that Sarah has taken the train back to Maine.

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