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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. What does Dorothea do to help Artie learn?
(a) She calls words out for her to spell from the dictionary.
(b) She gives her a math test everyday.
(c) She walks her to school each morning.
(d) She hires tutors.

2. How does Dorothea teach her granddaughter?
(a) With a video tape.
(b) With a book of Shakespeare's plays.
(c) With a dictionary.
(d) With banners of Latin and Greek letters.

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

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

5. Which character re-enters in the middle of scene 3?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Echo.
(c) Dorothea's husband.
(d) Artie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the wings represent to Artie?

2. Why does Dorothea marry her husband?

3. What happened when Artie tried to fly?

4. Who opens scene 2?

5. What is the last name of the family in this play?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who ignited Echo's original love of words?

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

4. Why does Artie feel that she was Dorothea's guinea pig as she grew up?

5. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

6. How does Dorothea's choice to become an eccentric take away Artie's freedom?

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

8. What is the opening action of this play, and what does this foreshadow?

9. What do you think the author's purpose was in having Echo spelling heard between Dorothea's recollections?

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

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