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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. Artie has an inability to do what, regarding Echo?
(a) Talk.
(b) Show affection.
(c) Drive her to school.
(d) Keep her healthy.

2. In scene 2, with what does Artie say she has trouble doing?
(a) Spelling words.
(b) Physically touching others, even her daughter.
(c) Flying with homemade wings.
(d) Running the mile.

3. How do Echo and Dorothea communicate?
(a) Dorothea writes messages on a dry erase board.
(b) Dorothea and Echo learned sign language.
(c) Echo can read Dorothea's mind.
(d) Echo insists that she can hear Dorothea speak even though Dorothea is mute.

4. How many times was Artie pregnant?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.

5. At what point in scene 3 does the audience lose sympathy for Dorothea?
(a) When she marries someone she does not love.
(b) When she endangers Artie by making her try to fly.
(c) When she chooses to be an eccentric.
(d) When she is not sad when her husband dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dorothea tries to _________________________ Artie.

2. How old is Echo when the plays opens?

3. How does Dorothea find Artie at the end of scene 2?

4. Dorothea began teaching Echo to read at the age of ______________.

5. When Artie is _______________ she becomes pregnant.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

3. What is the primary complication between the Westbrook women in this play?

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

5. How does Dorothea force her value of education over motherhood on Artie?

6. Who is the controller in the play? Who is being controlled?

7. Why does Dorothea decide to take on a life of eccentricity?

8. Why do you think Artie runs away instead of letting her mother send her to college?

9. Why is it ironic that Artie constantly drills spelling words to Echo?

10. Artie begins and ends scene two. What do we learn about the character?

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