CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The unidentified girl
A
cannot go away
B
has gone far away
C
cannot hear or see
D
cannot feel anymore
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -At the age of 19 months, Keller became very ill with a high fever, leaving her totally deaf and blind. Doctors at that time diagnosed it as “brain fever.” Experts today believe she suffered from scarlet fever or meningitis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Throughout her life, Helen Keller (1880-1968) was accused of being a fraud. Her list of accomplishments and success in becoming educated was impossible, skeptics often claim, because she could neither see nor hear.

Detailed explanation-3: -Helen Keller is one of the most well-known deafblind people in history, famous for her political activism, lecturing, writing and for being the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

Detailed explanation-4: -Keller, who became blind and deaf as a result of a childhood illness, learned to communicate with hearing people by having signals pressed into her palm, reading lips by way of touch, reading and writing Braille, and eventually speaking audibly.

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