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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Echo feel when her opponent crumbles?
(a) She doesn't even notice.
(b) She thinks he is over reacting.
(c) She feels sorry for him.
(d) She is appalled by his behavior.

2. What is Echo's final word in the spelling bee?
(a) "Alphabet".
(b) "Eleemosynary".
(c) "Forgiveness".
(d) "Eccentricity".

3. What is Artie's response to Dorothea being back in her life?
(a) She is very grateful to have her mother's help.
(b) She is jealous of her mother's relationship with her husband.
(c) Seeing Dorothea brings back all the trauma of her childhood.
(d) She is overjoyed to be back in her mother's life.

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

5. What is Echo doing as scene 5 opens?
(a) Echo is wearing the wings.
(b) Echo is spelling out loud.
(c) Echo is talking to her father.
(d) Echo is sleeping.

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

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

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

9. How does Artie feel when she sees her daughter in scene 5?
(a) Pure joy.
(b) Panicked.
(c) Anger.
(d) Disappointment.

10. How hard was it for Echo to get to the National Spelling Bee?
(a) She had to practice a lot.
(b) She got there easily.
(c) She barely made it there.
(d) She only made it because another contestant became ill.

11. What time of day was it when Dorothea cut the lock of hair from Artie?
(a) First thing in the morning
(b) Right before bedtime.
(c) The middle of the night.
(d) At lunchtime.

12. How many times did Artie say she moved?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 4 times.
(c) 8 times.
(d) 2 times.

13. How many times did Echo read Robinson Crusoe?
(a) 10 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 5 times.
(d) 17 times.

14. How does Dorothea feel when she finds Artie searching for the lock of hair?
(a) Disappointment and carefully controlled anger.
(b) Humor.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Resentment.

15. What excuse does Artie originally give for not being able to attend the spelling bee?
(a) She has an out of town meeting.
(b) Her car is broken down and she cannot get there.
(c) She is afraid she will make Echo nervous.
(d) She cannot leave her research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dorothea cut off a lock of Artie's hair?

2. What does Dorothea do with the lock of hair?

3. How does Dorothea help Echo remember her mother when Artie is gone?

4. Who meets up after the spelling bee?

5. In reference to Echo and Artie's argument in the beginning of scene 4, what does Echo believe?

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