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Helen Keller- quiz
Helen Keller
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who tamed her and when? | Anne Sullivan. 1888 when she was 8. |
| What college | Radcliffe College |
| Who set up her college fund. | Mark Twain |
| How did she become radicalized | her research on social and economic causes of blindness |
| What did she read | H.G. Wells's New Worlds for Old |
| Anne Sullivan's husband | John Macy- socialist intellectual |
| How did Keller read books on Marxist economics? | A friend spelled books into her hand three times a week |
| Advocate for | working people |
| joined what political party | U.S. Socialist Party |
| Another part | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
| Campaigned against | World War I |
| Adocated ? rights and | reproductive. votes for women |
| supported who??? | Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and Russian Revolution |
| What did Keller learn about power? | it is not available to everyone and it is due to their environment and birth |
| Describe the first paper Keller wrote. | She wrote about the causation of blindness using scientific approach along with prevention of it and rejects religious acceptance of it. |
| What does she tell the blind and deaf? | to allgn themselves along with the working class in their fight for liberation |
| Why was it important to her? | Felt the blind were ignored by most political organizations |
| What was the turninng point in Keller's development of ideas and led her to join IWW | Little Falls strike |
| What strike did Keller participate in? | Actors Equity at a New York theater wehre she was in Deliverance, a film of her life where actors and managers were in a dispute regarding their wages |
| What did her critics say about her political thinkings? | result of her disability |
| Why was Keller disatisfied with Socialist Party? | Electoral activity and wanted industrial direct action tactics. In other words, the Socialist Party, to her, was slow and sinking in the political bog. |
| When U.S. entered World War I, why were radical and leftist organization suppressed? | They didn't support the U.S. entering the war so they imprisoned and arrested them. |
| How did Keller respond? | Argued against their actions and spoke for the strategy and tactics of IWW. |
| How did Keller provoke Cold War hysteria? | Wrote a letter to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn who was imprisoned and a communist |
| Why did American Federation of the Blind withdraw their support? | Keller was the public face of it and upon her writing a letter to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
| When will the women's issue be resolved? | When the working class is liberated |
| True liberation could only be won through ? | revolution |
| Keller would not have called herself a feminist. Why not? | At that time, "feminists" meant women's equality could be achieved by reforming capitalism, primarily by securing the right to vote. Keller associated herself with the revolutionaries |
| The war was caused by | nation's drive for capitalistic expansion and destruction |
| 39 | . |
| IWW is organized to | keep industries going |
| What's wrong with capitalism? | wages stay the same as cost of living gets higher and people are unemployed |
| IWW is formed with the object of | carrying on the business of the world when capitalism is overthrown |
| IWW doesn't like what | profit making system with the master class lives in luxury and majority live in want |
| Goals of IWW | workers organize as a class, take possession of the resources of the earth and the machinery of productio nand distriubtion and abolish the wage system. Workers own and operate all essential industrial institutions and securer to each laborer full value |
| Why are IWW persecuted? | class solidarity and for democratic purposes |
| The creators of welath should own what they create, how did IWW respond to that | we are related to one another, members of one body, injury to one is injury to all |
| Workers do not receive | full value of what they produce |
| What caused the famine in Russia | drought following years of war, blockade of Rusian ports, preventing entrance to them of all necessary supplies |
| Present government does not have an intention of | giving women a part in nationa lpolitics |
| Country is governed for | the richest |
| Why does the country need women? | majority of women are wage earners, machine exploited labor of men and women, women know cost of human life in terms of suffering and sacrifice, women ca prevent war and destroy ideas of war, concern for whole family as men are individualistic |
| What's wrong with men | social consciousness is not so strong in him |
| What about men that failed us | their chivalry and suspicion of tyranny |
| Women's Party means what for women | symbol of solidarity, struggle for independence, sex equality and responsibility, cannot rely on men's chivanrly to give them justice, must save themselves |
| what do women want | bloomers, divorce, franchise, equal pay, enter the professions on equal terms with men, education |
| what was considered unwomanly | law, religion, custom, public speaking, write for publication |
| We are not free unless ? | men who frame and execute the laws represent the interests of the lives of the people and no other interest. |
| What was first article Keller published and when | I Must Speak in Ladies' Home Journal in 1901 |
| First book? | Story of My Life in 1903 |
| Joins the U.S. Socialist Party in ? | Massachusetts |
| Demonstrates with the Women's Peace Party for peace in ? | Europe |
| Denounces ? as a monster of capitalism responsible for the massacre of men, women and children in a bloody confrontation between strikers and the militia at his coal mine in Ludlow, Colorado | Rockefeller |
| Donates money to the ? | NAtional Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
| Helps to found the | American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) |
| Plays the part of herself in ? | Deliverance |
| Participatesi n what strike | Actor Equity |
| Supports the presidential campaign of progressive candidate | Robert LaFollette |
| Begins work with | american Foundation for the Blind (AFB) |
| Visits the black, silent hole that had once been Hiroshima and Nagasaki and speaks out against ? | nuclear war |
| Writes letter of support to | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
| What caused her to retire from public life | stroe |
| Receives | Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson |
| When did she die | 1968 |
| Why was Keller guarded when she wrote about blindness? | REserved for experts and young women were expected to be ignorant on the subject and she didn't like going against tradition |
| First belief about blindness | necessary, unpreventable, must accept- religious |
| How is blindness caused | ophthalmia and from husbands having sex with other women |
| To prevent blindness, how | right living and right knowledge |
| what influences how we should live | church, school and press |
| HOw did KEller become a socialist? | reading. HG Wells's new world for olds and reading |
| Why did she quit Soclialist party | too slow, sinking in the politcal bog and impossible for it to keep its revolutionary character as it occupies a place under the government and seeks office under it. gvt doesn't stand for interests Socialist party supposed to rep |
| Goal of Keller | organize all workers on an econimic basis and workers must secure freedom for themselves. |
| What led Keller to join IWW | Lawrence strinke because to better conditions for all at once, revolution |
| What is IWW | labor union based on class struggle with wage earners and acts on principle of industiral unionism. battle ground is field of industry. |
| differs from trade unions how | emphasizes the idea of one big union of al lindustries in the ecnomic field. trade unions as presently organized are an obstacle to unity among the masses and lack of solidarity |
| IWW against | whole profit making ystem |
| What do they want for the workers | own and operate all the essential industrial institutions and secure to each alborer the full value of his product |
| Why is IWW persucted | declaration of class solidarity |
| IWWs made up of | unskilled, ill-paid, unnaturalized, submerged part of working class. |
| what's wrong with capitalism | constant wage with increasing cost of living and unemployed people |
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