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Story Questions
1. 
What are the author’s feelings about Anne Sullivan?
a. indifferent
b. disapproves
c. unsure
d. approves
2. 
Which sentence shows how the author feels about Anne Sullivan?
a. She managed to graduate at the top of her class from the Perkins Institute.
b. She continues to be an inspiration.
c. Despite all of her struggles, Anne worked hard to succeed.
d. Anne’s family was extremely poor and her father was an alcoholic and abusive.
3. 
Which sentence is not an example of the Anne’s accomplishments?
a. Anne began some of her most important work when she was called on to tutor a young blind 
and deaf girl named Helen Keller.
b. Anne had to teach her obedience before anything else.
c. Anne helped Helen go on to accomplish great things.
d. Her mother died two years later, and her father put both of the children in an orphanage.

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. As a young boy, Einstein lived in Munich and 
Milan. At the age of five, his father showed him a compass and explained how it worked. Albert was 
intrigued with the idea that something in “space” made the needle work. At this time, Albert’s mother 
also insisted that he learn to play the violin.
Albert was not considered very bright in school, and some even thought he had dyslexia and other 
learning problems. Many thought he was very slow. Nonetheless, school would go on to be very 
important to Albert, and he would go on to become a professor. 
He eventually went to school in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Federal Institute of 
Technology. He then worked in a patent office and on his doctorate degree. He later became a 
professor of physics. Einstein developed the theory of relativity and received a Nobel Prize in physics 
in 1921. He became famous throughout the world, which is very unusual for a scientist.
Warm-Up 2
Name _________________________ Date _________
Nonfiction: Biography