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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dorothea's health as the play opens?
(a) Dorothea has a broken arm.
(b) Dorothea has had a stroke and is mute.
(c) Dorothea has a concussion from falling.
(d) Dorothea is in excellent health.

2. What did Artie's mother want her to do when Artie was young?
(a) To try to fly with homemade wings.
(b) To study to become a doctor.
(c) To make a pair of wings.
(d) To spell "eleemosynary."

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

4. What is Artie's relationship to Dorothea?
(a) Artie is Dorothea's husband.
(b) Artie is Dorothea's granddaughter.
(c) Artie is Dorothea's daughter.
(d) Artie is Dorothea's father.

5. Echo is obsessed with __________________.
(a) The wings.
(b) Spelling words.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Running.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were Artie and Echo's conversations limited?

2. How did the wings look?

3. Which character ends scene 1?

4. What do the wings represent to Artie?

5. Who first taught Echo to love words?

(see the answer key)

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