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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Artie and Echo's argument end?
(a) Echo leaves in frustration.
(b) Artie leaves in frustration.
(c) Echo convinces Artie to talk to Dorothea.
(d) They agree to disagree, and both sit with Dorothea.

3. Why does Dorothea cut off a lock of Artie's hair?
(a) Artie had gum in her hair and she was cutting it out.
(b) She was giving Artie a hair cut.
(c) She wanted to compare Artie's hair with her own.
(d) Dorothea says it will always be a connection to her daughter, Artie.

4. Why does Echo feel such kinship to Dorothea?
(a) Echo feels she is just like Dorothea.
(b) Dorothea reminds Echo of her mother.
(c) Dorothea raised her.
(d) Echo feels nokinshipto Dorothea.

5. What did Artie do right after kissing Dorothea after the spelling bee?
(a) She moved back into Dorothea's home.
(b) She asked Echo and Dorothea to come to dinner with her.
(c) She asked Echo to come live with her.
(d) She ran out of the auditorium.

6. Who meets up after the spelling bee?
(a) Artie and Dorothea.
(b) Echo and Artie.
(c) Echo's father and Artie.
(d) Dorothea and Echo.

7. Instead of coming to see Echo, what does Artie do?
(a) She write her a letter everyday.
(b) She sometimes calls her on the phone.
(c) She asks Echo to meet her.
(d) She never contacts Echo.

8. When Artie comes to Echo's spelling bee, where does she sit?
(a) Far away from Dorothea so neither she nor Echo can see her.
(b) In the seat next to Dorothea.
(c) Right up front so she can cheer on Echo.
(d) In the seat directly behind Dorothea.

9. What does Artie accomplish on her own?
(a) She raises her daughter on her own.
(b) She puts herself through college.
(c) She writes a book.
(d) She opens her own restaurant.

10. Why did Dorothea choose the name she did for her granddaughter?
(a) So that she would have a good memory and "echo" back her knowledge.
(b) Because her own mother was named Echo, and she loved her very much.
(c) Because she liked the sound of it.
(d) So she would only remember the good about people and "echo" it back.

11. 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 a movie star.
(c) Artie thought her mother was in jail.
(d) Artie never gave her mother any thought.

12. What news does Artie have for her mother when she calls her for the second time in scene 4?
(a) She has flunked out of college.
(b) She is sick and needs help.
(c) She is unmarried and pregnant.
(d) She is married to a professor, is about to finish her graduate degree in BioChem, and is pregnant.

13. What is the difference between the little boy losing and Echo losing, from Echo's perspective?
(a) The little boy would lose the competition, while Echo would lose her home.
(b) Echo would not have another chance at winning, but the little boy was younger and would have more opportunities.
(c) If the little boy won, Echo would finally get her family's sympathy.
(d) The little boy would just lose, while Echo would fail to reunite her family.

14. Why does Echo buy the Robinson Crusoe book?
(a) She thought it looked like a great story.
(b) Dorothea had told her the story.
(c) She saw her mother looking at it.
(d) Artie recommended it to her when she called.

15. How many times did Artie run away?
(a) 2 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 1 time.
(d) 4 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Echo's family feel about her winning the spelling bee?

2. Why aren't Artie and Dorothea happy about Echo winning?

3. How hard was it for Echo to get to the National Spelling Bee?

4. Why does Artie tear up the house in scene 5?

5. When Artie calls her daughter on the phone, what does Echo tell Dorothea about the phone call?

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