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The document provides a series of questions and answers related to 'The Story of My Life' by Helen Keller, covering her family background, childhood experiences, and the impact of her illness. It includes specific details about her early life, her personality traits, and significant moments before her illness. The content aims to facilitate understanding and analysis of Keller's autobiography.

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The Story of My Life


Questions & Answers
April 17, 2023 by WittyChimp Team

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Hi Everyone!! This article will share The


Story of My Life Questions & Answers.

In my previous posts, I have shared the


questions & answers of Daffodils, Paper
Boats and A Trek through the
Himalayas so, you can check these
posts as well.

The Story of My Life


Questions & Answers
Question 1: Fill in the blanks:

1. Casper Keller, Helen’s ancestor, settled


in Maryland.
2. The old-fashioned garden of Ivy Green
was the paradise of Helen’s childhood.
3. Helen’s mother wished to call her
Helen Everett after her own mother.
4. Helen, as a child, would always insist
upon imitating what other people did.
5. Once, as a child, Helen attracted
everyone’s attention by saying ‘tea-tea-
tea’ quite plainly.
6. Helen’s illness was diagnosed as
congestion of the stomach and brain.

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Question 2: Write a short note on


Helen’s family background.

Answer: Helen’s father was Arthur H


Keller, and her mother was Kate Adams.
Her father was a captain in the
Confederate Army. His family was
descended from Caspar Keller, who was
a native of Switzerland but had settled in
Maryland. One of Helen’s ancestors was
the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and
had written a book on their education.

Question 3: Where did Helen live


till the time of her illness?

Answer: Till the time of her illness Helen


lived in a tiny house, which had one large
and one small room. The house was built
by her father after the Civil War. It had an
annex attached to it. It was completely
covered with vines, climbing rose and
honeysuckles. The porch of the house
was hidden behind a screen of yellow
roses. It also had a little rose bower. The
house was called ‘Ivy green’.

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Question 4: How would Helen


calm herself after a fit of temper?

Answer: Helen’s house had an old-


fashioned garden with stiff boxwood
hedges. Helen would guide herself by her
sense of smell and by feeling along the
hedges. After a fit of temper, Helen
would go to this garden to comfort
herself, and hide her face in the cool
leaves and grass.

Question 5: How did Helen’s


mother solve the problem of her
name?

Answer: Helen’s mother gave the


solution to the problem of selecting a
name for Helen. She suggested to name
the baby Helen Everett, after her own
mother. However, the solution was not a
success. Helen’s father was not in favour
of the name ‘Helen Everett’. So, while he
carried Helen to the church to be
christened, he lost the name.

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The Story of My Life Questions &


Answers

Question 6: What were the signs


that showed Helen’s eager, self-
asserting disposition?

Answer: Since she was a baby, Helen


showed many signs of an eager, self-
asserting disposition. She insisted on
imitating everything that other people
did. At the age of six-months she could
say ‘How d’ye’. One day she said
‘Tea,tea,tea’ quite clearly and surprised
everyone.

Question 7: Give an instance of


the ‘happy days’ that existed
before Helen fell ill.

Answer: One of the happy days that


existed before Helen fell ill was the day
that she first walked. She was a year old.
Her mother had taken her out of the bath
tub and was holding her on her lap. Helen
was attracted by the flickering shadows
of the leaves on the smooth floor. She
almost ran towards the shadows in her
excitement and fell down. This was the
first walk of her life.

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Question 8: Describe the various


seasons that Helen enjoyed
before the illness attacked her.

Answer: Before her illness came, Helen


enjoyed a brief spring, which was musical
with the songs of robin and mocking-
bird; a summer rich in fruit and roses;
and an autumn which fell the gold and
crimson leaves at her feet. Then the
illness came in the month of February.

Question 9: What was the illness


that attacked Helen called? What
was its effect?

Answer: The illness that attacked Helen


was called acute congestion of the
stomach and brain by the doctors. The
illness left suddenly one day, but due to it
Helen lost her ability to see and hear.

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Question 10: Read the lines given


below and answer the questions
that follow.

The task of writing an autobiography


is a difficult one.

(a) Who says the above words?

Answer: The above words are spoken by


the author Helen Adams.

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(b) Why is the task of writing an


autobiography a difficult one?

Answer: The task of writing an


autobiography is a difficult one, because
while many of the experiences are clear
and vivid in our memory, most of the
details of the joys and sorrows of
childhood are forgotten. In the
excitement of adult life, the incidents of
childhood which are vital lose their clarity
in the memory.

(c) How does the speaker decide to


present it?

Answer: The speaker decides to present


it in a series of sketches. She describes
only the episodes that seem to her to be
the most interesting and important. This,
she hopes, will help her make her work
less tedious.

Question 11: Read the lines given


below and answer the questions
that follow.

‘Tea, tea, tea’…….

(a) Who said these words?

Answer: Helen Keller said these words.

(b) When exactly were these words


spoken?

Answer: These words were spoken by


Helen, one day, when she was about six
months old.

(c) What was everyone’s reaction to


the above words?

Answer: When Helen spoke these


words, everyone’s attention was
attracted to her as she was just six
months old at that time.

Question 12: Read the lines given


below and answer the questions
that follow.

……l continued to make some sound


for that word after all other speech
was lost.

(a) What is the ‘word’ being referred


to in the above line?

Answer: The word being referred to in


the above line is ‘water’.

(b) What sound did Helen make for the


word?

Answer: After her illness, when she had


lost her ability to hear and had lost all
other speech, she could still make the
sound ‘wah-wah’ for the word ‘water’.

(c) Why was Helen’s speech lost?

Answer: Helen’s speech was lost


because of an illness she had as a child.
The doctors had diagnosed the illness as
the acute congestion of stomach and
brain.

So, these were The Story of My Life


Questions & Answers.

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