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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the picnic, what does Dorothea decide she should become?
(a) An eccentric.
(b) A psychic.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A teacher.

2. What is the relationship between the women in the family?
(a) Extreme animosity.
(b) Love and charity.
(c) Famial love, tainted with resentment and bitterness.
(d) Indifference.

3. What is an eccentric?
(a) A person of extreme intelligence.
(b) A person completely unbound by the ordinary rules and responsibilities the rest of society must accept.
(c) A person who can spell very well.
(d) A person who is kind to everyone.

4. What dream does Artie have?
(a) That her mother burns all Artie's books.
(b) That Echo falls out of a tree.
(c) That her mother has a terrible accident.
(d) That she is able to fly through the sky with homemade wings.

5. How long after Artie's phone call before Dorothea shows up on Artie's doorstep?
(a) After Echo is born.
(b) A month later.
(c) A year later.
(d) A week later.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dorothea's husband promise her, but then does not fulfill?

2. Who meets up after the spelling bee?

3. What is Echo's frame of mind as she spells her words?

4. How does Echo's family feel about her winning the spelling bee?

5. How did the family end up back in Dorothea's house back east?

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