Q 01/05

In the 1920s Keller and Anne Sullivan earned their living by appearing in what kind of show?

A) A travelling circus

B) Vaudeville

C) Radio serials

D) Silent-film serials

Answer · why

B) Vaudeville

Vaudeville. Books and lecture tours had not paid the bills, so from 1920 the two took an act about Keller's life onto the variety stage to support the...

Q 02/05

How old was Helen Keller when the illness that changed her life struck?

A) 6 months

B) 19 months

C) 5 years

D) 16 years

Answer · why

B) 19 months

19 months. She was already an eager talker by then: by her own account, relatives remembered her piping 'How d'ye' at six months and 'Tea, tea, tea' s...

Q 03/05

Keller wrote that her sense of smell warned her of what, hours before anyone could see a sign of it?

A) A morning frost

B) A coming storm

C) A rising fog

D) A heatwave

Answer · why

B) A coming storm

A coming storm. She said there was 'something of the fallen angel' about smell, a sense she felt was unfairly looked down on: by scent alone she knew ...

Q 04/05

At ten, Keller asked that money raised to buy her a new dog go to what instead?

A) A deafblind boy's schooling

B) Her teacher's eye operation

C) A shelter for stray dogs

D) Braille books for her school

Answer · why

A) A deafblind boy's schooling

A deafblind boy's schooling. Her mastiff had been killed, and the gifts sent to replace it went instead into a fund for Tommy Stringer, paying for his...

Q 05/05

What was the Keller family homestead called, after the climbing plant that covered the house?

A) Rose Cottage

B) Magnolia Hill

C) Ivy Green

D) Cedar Grove

Answer · why

C) Ivy Green

Ivy Green. Keller called its old-fashioned garden 'the paradise of my childhood', and though she left at eight she always spoke of the house, now a mu...