Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
12093	Had they not bequeathed to him their torch- like faith, their patient fervor of toil and their creed of equality?
12093	Possessed of a devil?
12093	Was not the zeal of his ancestors upon his lips, and their courage in his heart?
27683	What does the straight line mean to you?
27683	And who knows the hand, if not the lover?
27683	But who shall put into words limitless, visionless, silent void?
27683	But will you please tell us what idea you had of goodness and beauty when you were six years old?"
27683	By what half- development of human power has the left hand been neglected?
27683	From contrasts so irreconcilable can we fail to form an idea of beauty and know surely when we meet with loveliness?
27683	Has any chamber of the blind man''s brain been opened and found empty?
27683	Has any psychologist explored the mind of the sightless and been able to say,"There is no sensation here"?
27683	Has anything arisen to disprove the adequacy of correspondence?
27683	Hast thou entered into the treasures of the night?
27683	Hast thou seen Thought bloom in the blind child''s face?
27683	Hast thou seen his mind grow, Like the running dawn, to grasp The vision of the Master?
27683	Hath not my naked body felt the water sing When the sea hath enveloped it With rippling music?
27683	Have I not felt The lilt of waves beneath my boat, The flap of sail, The strain of mast, The wild rush Of the lightning- charged winds?
27683	Have I not smelt the swift, keen flight Of winged odours before the tempest?
27683	Have I not the same right to use these words in describing what I feel as you have in describing what you see?
27683	Have not my fingers split the sand On the sun- flooded beach?
27683	He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies"?
27683	How are we to know that they have ceased to exist for us?
27683	How can the world be shrivelled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service?
27683	If I had said"visit,"he would have asked no questions, yet what does"visit"mean but"see"(_ visitare_)?
27683	Is it not used in the great moments of swearing, blessing, cursing, smiting, agreeing, marrying, building, destroying?
27683	May I not understand the poet''s figure:"The green of spring overflows the earth like a tide"?
27683	May I not, then, be excused if this account of my sensations lacks precision?
27683	May I not, then, say:"Myriads of fireflies flit hither and thither in the dew- wet grass like little fluttering tapers"?
27683	The blind man of spirit faces the unknown and grapples with it, and what else does the world of seeing men do?
27683	The imp Curiosity pulled Memory by the sleeve and said,"Why do they run away?
27683	Then came Love, bearing in her hand The torch that is the light unto my feet, And softly spoke Love:"Hast thou Entered into the treasures of darkness?
27683	To escape this moralizing you should ask,"How does the straight line feel?"
27683	What ear hath heard the music of the spheres, the steps of time, the strokes of chance, the blows of death?
27683	What eye hath seen the glories of the New Jerusalem?
27683	What great invention has not existed in the inventor''s mind long before he gave it tangible shape?
27683	What ground have we for discarding light, sound, and colour as an integral part of our world?
27683	What is life to him?
27683	What would odours signify if they were not associated with the time of the year, the place I live in, and the people I know?
27683	When the Psalmist considers the heavens and the earth, he exclaims:"What is man, O Lord, that thou art mindful of him?
27683	Would they command Darwin from the grave and bid him blot out his geological time, give us back a paltry few thousand years?
27683	when will this city be finished?
2397	Can flies know not to bite?
2397	Did father shoot him?
2397	Did you ever see God?
2397	Flies bite-- why?
2397	Has it feet? 2397 Have I done anything wrong?
2397	How do the blind girls know what to say with their mouths? 2397 How does Mother Nature take care of the flowers?"
2397	How does carpenter know to build house?
2397	Is this not love?
2397	Is this not love?
2397	Mother,accompanied by an inquiring look, means,"Were is mother?"
2397	Then why did He let little sister fall this morning, and hurt her head so badly?
2397	Were did I come from?
2397	What colour is think?
2397	What is it?
2397	What is love?
2397	What will you do with the dollar?
2397	What would you like, then?
2397	Where did He get the soil, and the water, and the seeds, and the first animals?
2397	Where did Leila get new baby? 2397 Where is God?"
2397	Who made tree grow in house? 2397 Who put chickens in eggs?"
2397	Why did father kill sheep?
2397	Why is Viney black?
2397	Why should I treat these questions differently?
2397	Will you go with me and find Viney?
2397	when?
2397	why?
2397	( puppies)"Why is Elizabeth Evelyn''s sister?"
2397	... Have you seen Kipling''s"Dreaming True,"or"Kitchener''s School?"
2397	... So you read about our class luncheon in the papers?
2397	A little French boy will say, Parlez- vous Francais?
2397	A moment after she said,"Will you please go first and tell me all about it?"
2397	A queer name, is it not?
2397	After seeing the chicken come out of the egg, she asked:"Did baby pig grow in egg?
2397	After talking about the various things that carpenters make, she asked me,"Did carpenter make me?"
2397	Again I asked my teacher,"Is this not love?"
2397	Again and again I ask impatiently,"Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?"
2397	Am I not very fortunate?
2397	And yet how could it possibly have happened?
2397	Are we not?
2397	Are you not very, very happy?
2397	Are you very glad that you could make so many happy?
2397	Are you very lonely and sad now?
2397	Are you very sad for Edith and me?
2397	Are you very, very happy because you can make so many people happy?
2397	As soon as I had recovered from my panic sufficiently to say anything, I demanded:"Who put salt in the water?"
2397	As we were passing a large globe a short time after she had written the questions, she stopped before it and asked,"Who made the REAL world?"
2397	At another time she asked,"Do you not think we would be very much happier always, if we did not have to die?"
2397	At another time she asked,"What is a soul?"
2397	But I can not imagine who made Mother Nature, can you?
2397	But do you not think that God is happy too because you are happy?
2397	But how shall I speak of the glories I have since discovered in the Bible?
2397	But where is it now?
2397	But why should not the friends of the blind assist The Great Round World, if necessary?
2397	Can Harry float and swim?
2397	Can it walk?
2397	Can you see leaves and ferns and bark on the coal?
2397	Can you tell me in what paper the article appeared accusing Helen of plagiarism, and giving passages from both stories?
2397	Could there be anything more dramatic than the scene in which Esther stands before her wicked lord?
2397	Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with low neck and short sleeves and quite a train?
2397	Did Leila tell doctor to get very small new baby?
2397	Did you have a pleasant Christmas?
2397	Did you know that the blind children are going to have their commencement exercises in Tremont Temple, next Tuesday afternoon?
2397	Do deaf children ever learn to speak?"
2397	Do they miss their mistress very much?
2397	Do you know, I can not help feeling sorry for these trees with all their fashionable airs?
2397	Do you like my day- dream?
2397	Do you like to look out of your window, and see little stars?
2397	Do you like to ride?
2397	Do you realize that this is the last letter I shall write to you for a long, long time?
2397	Do you remember Dr. Garcelon, who was Governor of Maine several years ago?
2397	Do you remember what a happy time we had last Christmas?
2397	Do you think Mrs. Spaulding would help me, if I wrote to her?
2397	Do you think poor Jakey loved his Father in heaven more because his other father was unkind to him?
2397	Do you think the lovely moon was glad that I could speak to her?
2397	Does it seem long to you?
2397	Does n''t it seem strange that Mr. Anagnos never referred to this interview?
2397	Editor of the Boston Herald: My Dear Mr. Holmes:--Will you kindly print in the Herald, the enclosed list?
2397	Even to- day, when Miss Keller strikes off a fine phrase, Miss Sullivan says in humorous despair,"I wonder where she got that?"
2397	Finding no trace of the cracker there, she pointed to my stomach and spelled"eat,"meaning,"Did you eat it?"
2397	Have you ever been at Dr. Crouter''s Institution?
2397	Have you read the beautiful poem,"Waiting"?
2397	Helen felt the change in her mother''s movements instantly, and asked,"What are we afraid of?"
2397	Helen felt the heat and asked,"Did the sun fall?"
2397	Here are some of them:"What did God make the new worlds out of?"
2397	His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far- off town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them?
2397	How did God tell people that his home was in heaven?
2397	How did doctor know where to find baby?
2397	How do you like this type- written letter?
2397	How is Dick?
2397	How is dear little sister?
2397	How shall I write of my mother?
2397	How would you like that?
2397	Huss?
2397	I am constantly asked the question,"How did you teach her the meaning of words expressive of intellectual and moral qualities?"
2397	I am made of flesh and blood and bone, am I not?"
2397	I asked myself,"How does a normal child learn language?"
2397	I feel ashamed sometimes, when I make that eloquent man say what sounds absurd or insipid; but how is a school- girl to interpret such genius?
2397	I have often been asked,"Do not people bore you?"
2397	I love Mark Twain-- who does not?
2397	I said,"Will you tell Viney you are very sorry you scratched and kicked her?"
2397	I said:"Why do you write those sentences on the board?
2397	I should like very much to see you to- day Is the sun very hot in Boston now?
2397	I smelt the violets in her hand and asked, half in words, half in signs, a question which meant,"Is love the sweetness of flowers?"
2397	I suppose you feel so, too, when you gaze up to the stars in the stillness of the night, do you not?...
2397	I then asked her,"Can you think of your soul as separate from your body?"
2397	I told her that her hair was brown, and she asked,"Is brown very pretty?"
2397	I wonder if you would like to have me tell you a pretty dream which I had a long time ago when I was a very little child?
2397	If Helen asked,"Where is mother now?"
2397	If I say,"Where is baby''s other ear?"
2397	If I say,"Where is the little rogue?"
2397	If my little sister comes to Boston next June, will you let me bring her to see you?
2397	If she was eating some candy, I said:"Will Helen please give teacher some candy?"
2397	Is bug very happy?"
2397	Is it blind?"
2397	Is it not a beautiful plan?
2397	Is it not a pitiful story?
2397	Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful?
2397	Is it possible for the College to accommodate itself to these unprecedented conditions, so as to enable me to pursue my studies at Radcliffe?
2397	Is n''t that fine?
2397	It is always:"Oh, Miss Sullivan, please come and tell us what Helen means,"or"Miss Sullivan, wo n''t you please explain this to Helen?
2397	It is"what?"
2397	It seems almost too good to be true, does it not?
2397	May I read the book called the Bible?
2397	May I?
2397	May we go?
2397	Mrs. Keller took the baby in her arms, and when we had succeeded in pacifying her, I asked Helen,"What did you do to baby?"
2397	My first question was,"Where is Helen?"
2397	Need I tell you that I was more than delighted to hear that you are really interested in the"tea"?
2397	Of this report Miss Sullivan wrote in a letter dated October 30, 1887:"Have you seen the paper I wrote for the''report''?
2397	Of what use would they and their drumsticks be?
2397	One day she asked,"Does God take care of us all the time?"
2397	One of the ministers wished me to ask Helen,"What do ministers do?"
2397	Sept. 1888 My dear Miss Moore Are you very glad to receive a nice letter from your darling little friend?
2397	Shall you be very glad to see my teacher next Thursday?
2397	She asked the other day,"Who made all things and Boston?"
2397	She asked:"Where is heaven, and what is it like?
2397	She said:"Can bug know about naughty girl?
2397	She then asked,"Who made God?"
2397	She was quiet for a moment, and then asked, with spirit:"How do you know that I can not understand?
2397	Sometime will they have very well eyes?
2397	Sometime will you please come to Alabama and visit me?
2397	Soon the dismal night would come-- and was the doll to sit up in the tree all night, and by herself?
2397	Tell me truly, do you think me as bad as that?
2397	The agitation which I felt evidently produced a perceptible physical change; for Helen asked, excitedly,"What do you see?"
2397	The doctor says her mind is too active; but how are we to keep her from thinking?
2397	The knowledge does n''t make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
2397	The other day Helen came across the word grandfather in a little story and asked her mother,"Where is grandfather?"
2397	The other day she asked,"What do my eyes do?"
2397	The sigh of Rip as he murmurs,"Is a man so soon forgotten when he is gone?"
2397	The sun and the air are God''s free gifts to all we say, but are they so?
2397	The"why?"
2397	They are always asking:"What does this beauty or that music mean to you?
2397	True, single words do suggest and express ideas; the child may say simply"mamma"when he means"Where is mamma?"
2397	Turning to my friend, she asked,"Did you cry loud for poor little Florence?"
2397	Was it bread that I wanted?
2397	Was that not lovely?
2397	Was that not very kind?
2397	Were n''t we very fortunate?
2397	What are boys doing now?
2397	What did I do when I was six years old?
2397	What do they mean to you?"
2397	What if a ray of light should flash through the darkened chambers of my soul?
2397	What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing?
2397	What if physical conditions have built up high walls about us?
2397	What is little boy''s name?
2397	What makes the sun hot?
2397	What secret power, I wonder, caused this blossoming miracle?
2397	What was the book you sent me for my birthday?
2397	What was the egg before it was an egg?
2397	What was the name of the little boy who fell in love with the beautiful star?
2397	What will he play?
2397	What would happen, do you think, if some one should try to measure our intelligence by our ability to define the commonest words we use?
2397	When I told her that Mildred''s eyes were blue, she asked,"Are they like wee skies?"
2397	When asked if she would not like to live ALWAYS in a beautiful country called heaven, her first question was,"Where is heaven?"
2397	When friends have told her of the great happiness which awaits her in another life, she instantly asked:"How do you know, if you have not been dead?"
2397	When she felt a bas- relief of dancing girls she asked,"Where are the singers?"
2397	When she felt the maps and blackboards she asked,"Do men go to school?"
2397	When she referred to our conversation again, it was to ask,"Why did not Jesus go away, so that His enemies could not find Him?"
2397	When told recently that Hungarians were born musicians, she asked in surprise,"Do they sing when they are born?"
2397	Where are many shells?"
2397	Where did doctor find Guy and Prince?"
2397	Where is he going?
2397	Where was I before I came to mother?
2397	Who could have dreamed that such beauty lurked in the dark earth, was latent in the tiny seed we planted?
2397	Who made the earth and the seas, and everything?
2397	Who put her in big hole?"
2397	Who put many things on tree?"
2397	Who was he and what did he do?
2397	Why can not we know as much about heaven as we do about foreign countries?"
2397	Why did you ask me?"
2397	Why do you not teach me to talk like them?
2397	Why does not the earth fall, it is so very large and heavy?
2397	Why does the dear Father in heaven think it best for us to have very great sorrow sometimes?
2397	Why not, says Miss Sullivan, make a language lesson out of what they were interested in?
2397	Why, for instance, does he take the trouble to ascribe motives to me that I never dreamed of?
2397	Why?
2397	Will you give her yours?"
2397	Will you please ask my father to come to train to meet teacher and me?
2397	Will you please come to see me soon and take me to the theater?
2397	Will you please send it to me?
2397	Will you please tell Harry to write me a very long letter soon?
2397	Words are the mind''s wings, are they not?
2397	Would n''t the children understand if you talked to them about Helen?"
2397	Would not it be lovely if Mrs. Pratt could meet us there?
2397	Would the bow- and- string tension of life snap?
2397	Would the heart, overweighted with sudden joy, stop beating for very excess of happiness?
2397	Would you like to see darling little Mildred?
2397	You fish out all manner of odds and ends of knowledge-- revolutions, schisms, massacres, systems of government; but Huss-- where is he?
2397	and"Where shall I go when I die?"
2397	especially"why?"