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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Echo's relationship to Dorothea?
(a) Echo is Dorothea's daughter.
(b) Echo is Dorothea's friend.
(c) Echo is Dorothea's mother.
(d) Echo is Dorothea's granddaughter.

2. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea's mother.

3. 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.

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

5. Dorothea tries to _________________________ Artie.
(a) Undermine.
(b) Encourage.
(c) Control.
(d) Free.

6. Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name to ______________________.
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Jane.
(d) Echo.

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

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

9. Dorothea has ______________________expectations for her daughter.
(a) No.
(b) Unreasonable.
(c) Very low.
(d) Reasonable.

10. What was Dorothea's childhood like?
(a) Dorothea had lots of friends and was happy.
(b) Dorothea had a wonderful childhood filled with love.
(c) Dorothea felt worthless and guilty growing up.
(d) Dorothea's parents doted on Dorothea.

11. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?
(a) Echo drawing a picture.
(b) Artie running to hug her daughter.
(c) Echo spelling the title of the play out loud.
(d) Echo communicating with mute Dorothea.

12. What happens to Dorothea's husband?
(a) He leaves Dorothea.
(b) He dies suddenly.
(c) He has a stroke and is unable to communicate.
(d) He is crippled in an accident.

13. Who first taught Echo to love words?
(a) Echo's aunt.
(b) Echo's father.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

14. After Dorothea talks about her marriage, what topic does she talk about?
(a) Her knowledge base.
(b) Her relationship with her father.
(c) Her first meeting of an eccentric.
(d) Her great love for her daughter.

15. Where in scene 3 does the audience feel sympathy for Dorothea?
(a) When Dorothea is tremendously ill.
(b) When Dorothea is forced into marriage and deprived of an education.
(c) When Dorothea is pregnant with Artie.
(d) When Dorothea meets her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Dorothea's health as the play opens?

2. What is an eccentric?

3. What did Echo and her mother talk about on the phone?

4. How does Dorothea meet her husband?

5. Who opens the third scene?

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