Chapter- 32                 Helen Keller


1️⃣ Who is the story about?

Ans: The story is about a child named Helen Keller who became completely deaf and blind before she learned to talk.


2️⃣ Why is Helen Keller famous?

Ans: Helen Keller is famous because, despite being deaf and blind, she learned to talk, write, studied in school and college, and lived a full happy life.


3️⃣ When and where was Helen Keller born?

Ans: Helen was born in 1880 in a small town in southern U.S.A.


4️⃣ At what age did Helen become ill?

Ans: Helen became ill at 18 months of age.


5️⃣ What happened to Helen after her illness?

Ans: She became completely deaf and blind.


6️⃣ Why is it difficult for a deaf child to learn to talk?

Ans: Because deaf children cannot hear how people talk, so they cannot know what talking sounds like.


7️⃣ How do many deaf people learn to understand what others are saying?

Ans: Many deaf people learn to lip-read and understand by watching others.


8️⃣ Why could Helen not understand people by watching them?

Ans: Because she could not see.


9️⃣ What word did Helen use for calling water?

Ans: She called water ‘waa-waa’.


🔟 How did Helen show ‘No’ and ‘Yes’?

Ans: She shook her head for ‘No’ and nodded for ‘Yes’.


1️⃣1️⃣ What did a pull and a push mean to Helen?

Ans: A pull meant ‘Come’, and a push meant ‘Go’.


1️⃣2️⃣ Why did Helen often get into terrible tempers?

Ans: Because she could not explain what she meant or understand others.


1️⃣3️⃣ Who came to teach Helen when she was seven?

Ans: Anne Sullivan came to teach her.


1️⃣4️⃣ What kind of teacher was Anne Sullivan?

Ans: She was a clever, devoted, and loving teacher.


1️⃣5️⃣ What disability did Anne Sullivan have?

Ans: She had been nearly blind.


1️⃣6️⃣ Where had Anne Sullivan studied?

Ans: She had been at a school for blind people.


1️⃣7️⃣ What method did Anne Sullivan learn at school?

Ans: She learnt the finger-spelling method.


1️⃣8️⃣ How did Anne teach Helen to say words?

Ans: By spelling the words on Helen’s hand.


1️⃣9️⃣ Why was spelling on the hand useful for Helen?

Ans: Because she could not see or hear, but could feel with her hands.


2️⃣0️⃣ What happened as Helen practiced finger spelling?

Ans: She became very sensitive to the feel of things.


2️⃣1️⃣ What difference could Helen soon tell by touch?

Ans: The difference between the feel of one letter and another.


2️⃣2️⃣ What helped Helen become successful later in life?

Ans: Her courage and her teacher’s support.


2️⃣3️⃣ What did Helen want to do like any other child?

Ans: She wanted to say everything and do things like other children.


2️⃣4️⃣ Did Helen go to school and college?

Ans: Yes, she went to school and college.


2️⃣5️⃣ How was Helen’s brain described?

Ans: She had an active mind and a clever brain.


2️⃣6️⃣ What did babies normally learn by hearing?

Ans: They learn talking by hearing others talk.


2️⃣7️⃣ Why couldn’t Helen understand what people were doing?

Ans: Because she couldn’t see them or hear them.


2️⃣8️⃣ What changed Helen’s life?

Ans: Anne Sullivan becoming her teacher.


2️⃣9️⃣ At what age did Anne Sullivan arrive to teach Helen?

Ans: When Helen was nearly seven years old.


3️⃣0️⃣ What was Helen Keller able to achieve in life?

Ans: She learned to talk and write, studied like others, and lived a happy life.

Answer by Dimpee Bora