Blindness Test
What question is Hellen Keller answering in her letter?
"What Did You Think of the Sight When You Were on Top of the Empire Building?"
Periphery
the outermost part or boundary
What does Choden think caused her blindness?
A cow hitting her mom's stomach.
What does the speaker long to see just once?
A human face.
What does the speaker still have even without sight?
Half-dark and the toil of verse. (Dark world)
Who accompanies Keller to the top of the Empire State Building?
Her blind friend.
What symbolic meaning does Keller find in the Empire State Building?
Keller finds poetry, mysticism, and inspiration.
What does she find missing from the world after she regains her sight.
She finds books missing.
What does Mahoney do to experience blindness?
She puts on a blindfold.
What conclusion about her reliance on sight does Mahoney draw at the end of the excerpt?
Sight limits our other senses and makes us miss a lot in our daily lives.
Where is the author visiting?
The author is visiting At Brail Without Borders Lhasa, Tibet.
Whom does the speaker lose?
The speaker loses his wife and daughter.
What happens to the speaker's houses?
They fall.
How does Frenchman describe the way Americans imagine themselves?
They see themselves as demigods not gods.
How does she regain her sense of sight?
Through surgery
Dominating
commanding influence
Luminous
giving off light
Indomitable
impossible to subdue or defeat
Unconquerable
not conquerable
Navigating
plan and direct the route
Elemental
primary or basic
Transcend
to go beyond the range or limits of
Traversed
travel across or through
