The Miracle Worker – Flashcards
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How does Kate discover her baby is blind and deaf?
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Helen did not flinch.
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Tell the number of years that elapse between Helen's infancy and the paper doll scene with Percy and Martha.
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5 years.
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What does Helen do that shows she knows Percy is talking?
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Felt person's lips.
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When Martha removes Helen's hands from her biting mouth, how does she react?
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Like she was abusive and psychotic.
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To which family member does Helen seem closest?
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Mother
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Why is Helen troubled by Aunt Ev's towel doll? How does she remedy the situation?
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She wants eyes on it.
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How does the family compensate for Helen's affliction?
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No discipline.
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When does Captain Keller agree to contact the oculist in Baltimore?
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He agreed at the end of scene 3
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Helen's half-brother, James, holds what opinion of her?
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Gets on his nerves and wants to put her in an asylum.
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List three pieces of information we learn from Mr. Anagnos' farewell conversation with Annie Sullivan at the Perkins Institute.
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Annie was almost Blind. 20 years old. Jimmy is her brother. Strong-willed.
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Name the going away presents Annie receives from Anagnos and the blind girls at the Perkins Institute.
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Ring, doll and sunglasses.
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What gesture does Annie use to indicate her mother?
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Helen touches her cheek.
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How many treats does Helen secretly receive before dinner? Given by whom?
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3. Mother and Dad.
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How do we know Helen is aware something different is about to happen?
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Feels and touches everything.
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Tell Annie's response to Kate's question , "What will you try to teach her first?"
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How will you teach a blind/deaf girl?
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Does Kate like Annie at their first meeting?
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Partly
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How does Helen first respond to Annie Sullivan?
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Doesn't like her.
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What word does Annie sign to Helen first? Why?
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Doll and Helen loves dolls.
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For what reason does James fetch a ladder?
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To get Annie down from her room.
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Describe Annie's reaction to Helen spitting the hidden key out of her mouth and hiding it in the well.
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She called Helen a little devil.
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What does Annie feel is her greatest obstacle with Helen?
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Helen is spoiled and restless.
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Why does Annie have Helen feel the different expressions on her face?
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To have Helen know what is going on.
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How does Kate respond when Annie questions her for rewarding Helen for stabbing her with the needle?
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Guilty; like it's her fault for spoiling her.
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For what reason does Annie insist everyone leave the dining room during breakfast?
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To communicate/teach her.
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Explain why before exiting the dining room James says to Annie, "If it takes all summer, general"?
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Helen shows no improvement at all.
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Tell Kate's response to the Captain's demand that she tell Annie to change her tactics with Helen or leave.
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She demands for Annie to stay, the only way Helen learn and change.
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What happens after Annie finally gets Helen to take a spoonful of food from her plate into her mouth?
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Helen spits it on Annie.
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What does Aunt Ev remind Kate of after Annie chases them all out of the dining room?
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That Helen is a child of a Keller and relative of Robert E. Lee.
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Describe Annie's report to Kate after her ordeal with Helen and her response.
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Helen folded her napkin.
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Dismayed, what does Annie reread from the Perkin's report upon going to her room?
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Medical report.
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Whose voices does Annie hear in her mind after reviewing the report?
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Jimmie's voice.
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What is Captain Keller's reaction to Annie's work with Helen?
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Mad
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What does Annie think is Helen's worst handicap?
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Love and pity.
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When Kate shares her fear of sending Helen to an asylum, what do we learn about Annie's past?
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She and her brother lived in one and played with rats in a death house.
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For what does Annie request from the Kellers if she is to stay on there with them?
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Live in an extra house with Helen to stay away from distractions.
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In what way does Annie respond to James' warning that she ought to just accept Helen's condition?
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Not giving up.
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How does the family manage to confuse Helen into thinking she has been taken to some other place and town?
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Taking a long ride.
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Where have they actually taken her?
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To the garden house.
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Helen responds in what manner to her new surroundings?
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She is furious and cries.
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Of what use is Percy to Annie the first night alone with Helen?
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Helps Helen get out from under the bed and learns words.
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How is Annie feeling at the end of Act II?
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She feels she has accomplished something. Very happy in letting Annie touch her.
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How does Annie think Helen can come out of her shell, like the chick?
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Fingers can talk.
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What has been James' feeling about the two weeks Helen has been gone?
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He thinks it is quiet and peaceful.
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In what matter does Kate advise James?
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To come out of the shell and stand up.
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What is wrong with Helen's eighteen nouns and three verbs?
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They don't make sense.
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Annie compares words to what?
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Her past in the asylum.
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Does Annie agree with Captain Keller's compliment that Helen's cleanliness is next to Godliness?
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NO.
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How does Annie feel upon Helen's return to the main house?
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She feels defeated.
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Annie defines obedience without understanding as what?
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Obedience is blindness.
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What does she ask of Captain Keller when he compliments her on what she has done with Helen in two short weeks?
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Not to undo what she has taught.
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What greeting does James extend to Annie?
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Even general.
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How does Helen behave during her special 'welcome home' dinner?
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Throws a tantrum.
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All but whom want to allow Helen her tantrum because, after all, she is the guest of honor?
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Annie.
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Which family members finally agree that the right thing is to allow Annie to take over?
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Kate and James.
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Where does Annie take Helen when she removes her from the table? What happens there?
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The pump. Helen attempts to say water.
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What does Helen do next?
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Touches a lot of things.
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How do her parents react to this turn of events?
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They are overwhelmed with emotions.
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What object does Helen offer to Annie?
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Keys
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What does Annie sign and whisper to Helen that shows she can now move ahead in her own life?
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I love Helen for ever and ever.
