The Life of Helen Keller

Cards (24)

  • How old Helen Keller was when she suddenly shut off from the world?
    18 months
  • Where was Helen Keller born?
    Tuscumbia, Alabama
  • When was Helen Keller born?
    June 27, 1880
  • Helen Keller was born in a white, frame cottage called?
    Ivy Green
  • He was a colonial governor of Virginia.
    Alexander Spottswood
  • Who is Helen Keller's father?
    Captain Arthur Keller
  • Helen Keller was diagnosed with _ that left her deaf and blind.
    Brain Fever
  • When did Helen Keller's real life begin?
    March 1887
  • She is a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind.
    Anne Mansfield Sullivan
  • When did Helen Keller express her desire to learn to speak?
    1890
  • Helen Keller found out that a little deaf-blind girl in _ had acquired the ability to speak.
    Norway
  • _ of Horace Mann School was Helen Keller's first speech teacher.

    Miss Sarah
  • In _, she entered the Cambridge School for Young Ladies to prepare for Radcliffe College.
    1898
  • Helen Kellen entered Radcliffe in the fall of 1900 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in _.

    1904
  • She received honorary doctoral degrees from _ and _.
    Temple University and Harvard University
  • Anne Sullivan's marriage, in _.
    1905
  • _, an eminent critic and prominent socialist.
    John Macy
  • She used a _ to prepare her manuscripts and then copied them on a regular typewriter.
    Braille Typewriter
  • _, is devoted to their display at the American Foundation for the Blind in New York City.
    Helen Keller Room
  • Helen Keller made her last major public appearance in _ at a Washington, DC, Lions Club Meeting.
    1961
  • After 1961, Helen Keller lived quietly at _.
    Arcan Ridge
  • Helen Keller's favorite books were _ and _and_.
    the Bible and volumes of poetry and philosophy.
  • Helen Keller died on _, at _, a few weeks short of her 88th birthday.
    June 01, 1968, Arcan Ridge
  • In his eulogy, _ expressed the feelings of the whole world when he said of Helen Keller, " She will live on, one of the few, the immortal names not born to die.
    Senator Lister Hill of Alabama