1. In what way was Helen's practice of writing not different from that of any other young writer?
2. what were the two chief events during Helen's trip to Washington in 1893?
3. Give a brief account of Helen's visit to the World's Fair in Washington. What fascinated her there?
4.Describe Helen's visit to the Midway Plaisance in Washington?
5. How did Helen pursue her studies before October 1893?
6. How did Helen begin to learn french and Latin seriously?
7. In what way did the Wrighr-Humason School for the deaf contribute to the education of Helen?
8.What activities amused Helen during her stay at the Wright -Humason School in New York?
9.Why did Helen join the Cambridge Shool for young ladies in 1896?
10. What difference s did Helen have to face at the Cambridge School?
11.What did Helen study at the Cambridge school?
12. How did Helen write her preliminary examination for Radcliffe?
13. What kind of life did Helen lead at the Cambridge school?
14. What unforeseen difficulties had Helen to face and overcome in the 2nd yr at the Gilman school ?
15. Why did Helen have to leave the Cambridge school before completing her studies?
16. How did Mr. Keith, a private tutor help Helen pass her final exams for Radcliffe?
17.How did Helen take final exam s for Radcliffe college? What difficulty dud she have to face?
18. In what mood did Helen join Radcliffe college? What were her expectations?
19."I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined ". Elucidate.
20. What did Helen study of Radcliffe College?
21. Why were the exam the "chief bugbears" of Helen's college life?
22. What did Helen learn from her stay at Radcliffe?
23. How did Helen come to develop love for reading books?
24.What was ''little Lord fauntleroy " about? Where was this story read to Helen?
25. Why did Helen fail to appreciate La Fontaine's Fables? What was her attitude towards animal stories?
26. How did ancient Greece cast a spell over Helen?
27. What do you learn of Helen's study of Shakespeare?
28. Give an account of Helen's interest in outdoor sports.
29. What activities kept Helen happily busy?
30. What does Helen think of various people who contribute greatly in shaping the story of her life?
31. Enumerate some of the persons recalled by Helen who played a significant role in her life.
RESPECTED EXPERTS I M CONFUSED ABOUT ABOVE QUESTIONS. ARE THEY ALL IN SA 1 AND IF NOT ALL THEN WHICH AMONG THEM ARE IN SA 1?
1) Helen believed that knowledge was happiness rather than power because to have knowledge- the broad, deep knowledge, was to know true ends from false and differentiate the lofty from the lowly. For her, knowledge means to be cognizant of the thoughts and deeds which have marked man's progress and feel the great heart of humanity throbbing through the centuries to the same heart beat. She saw the harmonies of life produced in this great tradition of knowledge and its application and this was instrumental in creating a kind of happiness which is inexplicably one's own.
3) Helen visited the World's Fair in the summer of 1893 along with Miss Sullivan and Dr Alexander Graham Bell. That visit remained etched in her memory as the manifestation of her thousand childish fantasies. It had seemed to her as if she was making a trip around the world every day in her imagination and she had seen many wonders from the farthest corners of the earth, marvels of invention, treasuries of industry and skill and all the activities of human life. She had visited the Midway Plaisance which had seemed to her like a scene out of the 'Arabian Nights,' there was the India of her books in the curious bazaar with its Shivas and elephant gods, the land of the Pyramids concentrated in a model Cairo with mosques and long processions of camels, lagoons of Venice, Viking ships, and so on, in short, the world in a nutshell brought to her by the World's Fair. Helen had also been fascinated by the model of the Santa Maria, the ship which had been steered by Columbus along with the hourglass which had belonged to him. Mr Higinbotham, the President of the World's Fair had given Helen permission to touch the exhibits and with an insatiable eagerness, she had set about the task. Everything had fascinated her, the French bronzes, which were lifelike and representative of angel visions bound in earthly forms. She had learned about the processes of mining diamonds at the Cape of Good Hope exhibit. Dr Bell had given her a guided tour of the electrical building where they examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions and rounded it off with a visit to the anthropological department whereby Helen had come to understand the ancient cultures of Mexico and Egypt through the relics of their past. All these experiences had added a great many terms to Helen's vocabulary and the three weeks that she had spent at the Fair made her take a long leap from the little child's interest in fairy tales and toys to the appreciation of the real and the earnest in the workaday world.
It would not be possible for us to answer all your queries. Please ask one question in a single thread. You can post the remaining questions in separate threads.
3) Helen visited the World's Fair in the summer of 1893 along with Miss Sullivan and Dr Alexander Graham Bell. That visit remained etched in her memory as the manifestation of her thousand childish fantasies. It had seemed to her as if she was making a trip around the world every day in her imagination and she had seen many wonders from the farthest corners of the earth, marvels of invention, treasuries of industry and skill and all the activities of human life. She had visited the Midway Plaisance which had seemed to her like a scene out of the 'Arabian Nights,' there was the India of her books in the curious bazaar with its Shivas and elephant gods, the land of the Pyramids concentrated in a model Cairo with mosques and long processions of camels, lagoons of Venice, Viking ships, and so on, in short, the world in a nutshell brought to her by the World's Fair. Helen had also been fascinated by the model of the Santa Maria, the ship which had been steered by Columbus along with the hourglass which had belonged to him. Mr Higinbotham, the President of the World's Fair had given Helen permission to touch the exhibits and with an insatiable eagerness, she had set about the task. Everything had fascinated her, the French bronzes, which were lifelike and representative of angel visions bound in earthly forms. She had learned about the processes of mining diamonds at the Cape of Good Hope exhibit. Dr Bell had given her a guided tour of the electrical building where they examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions and rounded it off with a visit to the anthropological department whereby Helen had come to understand the ancient cultures of Mexico and Egypt through the relics of their past. All these experiences had added a great many terms to Helen's vocabulary and the three weeks that she had spent at the Fair made her take a long leap from the little child's interest in fairy tales and toys to the appreciation of the real and the earnest in the workaday world.
It would not be possible for us to answer all your queries. Please ask one question in a single thread. You can post the remaining questions in separate threads.