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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 when she finds Artie tearing up the house?
(a) She sends Artie to a friends house while she cleans up.
(b) She makes Artie stay home from school to clean up.
(c) She hugs Artie and asks her what is wrong.
(d) She gives her the lock of hair and says she never wants it back.

2. What did Echo think about her mother when she was young?
(a) Artie thought she didn't have a mother.
(b) Artie thought her mother was in jail.
(c) Artie never gave her mother any thought.
(d) Artie thought her mother was a movie star.

3. Why does Artie tear up the house in scene 5?
(a) She is mad at her mother and is throwing a tantrum.
(b) She is looking for the homemade wings.
(c) She was looking for her favorite book.
(d) She is searching for the lock of hair.

4. How does Dorothea and Artie's phone call first phone call in scene 4 end?
(a) Artie hangs up.
(b) They make plans to meet the next day.
(c) Dorothea hangs up.
(d) They say good-bye, promising to talk again soon.

5. Why was Echo happy to hear the word "eleemosynary" at the spelling bee?
(a) It is her favorite word.
(b) Her mother loved the word.
(c) It was the longest word she knew.
(d) She had never heard it before, but could sound it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dorothea choose the name she did for her granddaughter?

2. What is Echo's final word in the spelling bee?

3. What is the difference between the little boy losing and Echo losing, from Echo's perspective?

4. What does Dorothea feel is the most important aspect of Echo's personality?

5. In scene 4, what does Dorothea say to Artie when Artie calls to tell her where she has been?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the author chose to "kill off"all the male characters in the play?

2. How is Artie's choice of seat at the Spelling Bee a metaphor for her life?

3. What happens to Artie when her mother reappears in her life?

4. Why are Artie and Echo arguing over Dorothea as scene 4 opens?

5. Why does Artie suggest to Echo to practice for the National Spelling Bee?

6. Why did Artie move and change her name so many times?

7. Why is Echo unable to see what she is doing to the little boy in the Spelling Bee?

8. What evidence is there in scene 5 that Echo is intrigued by her mother and wants to get to know her?

9. Why is Echo so ruthless in her defeat of the little boy?

10. How does what Dorothea says about the lock of hair always connecting her to Artie foreshadow their relationship?

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