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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name, Echo was ___________.
(a) 1 year old.
(b) 2 years old.
(c) 3 months old.
(d) 5 years old.

2. Dorothea began teaching Echo to read at the age of ______________.
(a) 8 years.
(b) 12 months.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 3 months.

3. What does Dorothea value over motherhood?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Love.
(c) Education.
(d) Fun.

4. Who made the wings that a character is wearing in the first scene?
(a) Echo.
(b) Artie.
(c) Echo's sister.
(d) Dorothea.

5. For Dorothea, eccentricity means _____________________her child.
(a) Loving.
(b) Leaving.
(c) Exploiting.
(d) Having fun with.

Short Answer Questions

1. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?

2. What do the wings represent to Artie?

3. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?

4. What is Echo's relationship to Artie?

5. How old is Artie when she has her first tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What skill does Echo have, and how does this skill become a form of communication between Echo and her mother?

2. Who is Artie named after and how does this name match her personality?

3. What do you think the purpose of this scene 3 is?

4. Why do you think Artie is not worried about her own issues?

5. In scene 1, Dorothea has had a stroke and is rendered mute. Why do you think Echo insists she can hear Dorothea?

6. What are the basic relationships between the Westbrook women?

7. At what point in scene 3 do you think the audience loses sympathy for Dorothea?

8. Why do you think Dorothea has such high expectations of Artie?

9. How is Dorothea's educational treatment of Echo similar to how she raised Artie?

10. Why do you think Artie is unable to communicate effectively with her daughter?

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