Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.CHILDREN: There’s a present. We brought you a going-away present, Annie!ANNIE: Oh, now you shouldn’t have –CHILDREN: We did, we did, where’s the present?SMALLEST CHILD [MOURNFULLY]: Don’t go, Annie, away.What does this excerpt reveal about Annie?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE: Oh, in grownups you have to, Mr. Anagnos. I mean in children it just seems a little – precocious, can I use that word?ANAGNOS: Only if you can spell it.ANNIE: Premature. So I hope at least she’s a bright one.ANAGNOS: Deaf, blind, mute – who knows? She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside.ANNIE: Maybe it’s empty, too?Which is the best description of Annie based on this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.(The lights begin to come up, down left, on a long table and chair. The table contains equipment for teaching the blind by touch – a small replica of the human skeleton, stuffed animals, models of flowers and plants, piles of books.)Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.(But she swallows over getting the ring on her finger, and cannot continue until she finds a woebegone joke.)Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE: Oh, in grownups you have to, Mr. Anagnos. I mean in children it just seems a little – precocious, can I use that word?ANAGNOS: Only if you can spell it.Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: So. You are no longer our pupil, we throw you into the world, a teacher. If the child can be taught. No one expects you to work miracles, even for twenty five dollars a month. Now, in this envelope a loan, for the railroad, which you will repay me when you have a bank account. But in this box, a gift. With our love.(ANNIE opens the small box he extends, and sees a garnet ring. She looks up, blinking, and down.)Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE: The only time I have trouble is when I’m right.(But she is amused at herself, as is ANAGNOS.)Is it my fault it’s so often? I won’t give them trouble, Mr. Anagnos, I’ll be so ladylike they won’t notice I’ve come.ANAGNOS: Annie, be – humble. It is not as if you have so many offers to pick and choose. You will need their affection, working with this child.Which word best describes Annie in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE [MEEKLY]: Yes. But I know what I’m like, what’s this child like?ANAGNOS: Like?ANNIE: Well – Bright or dull, to start off.ANAGNOS: No one knows. And if she is dull, you have no patience with this?ANNIE: Oh, in grownups you have to, Mr. Anagnos, I mean in children it just seems a little – precocious, can I use that word?ANAGNOS: Only if you can spell it.ANNIE: Premature. So I hope at least she’s a bright one.Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this student summary of act 1 of The Miracle Worker.In act 1, twenty-year-old Annie Sullivan is preparing to leave her school and become a teacher herself. She is bidding farewell to Anagnos, her mentor, and to many young girls who have been her students and friends. The action slows when Annie and Anagnos have a discussion, and the play becomes boring. Then Anagnos and the girls present her with gifts, and she is appreciative and sentimental. She voices some concerns about leaving Perkins.Which sentence should be removed to improve this summary?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: . . . It will no doubt be difficult for you there, Annie. But it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? Gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an Irish battle. For independence.Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
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