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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. How was Artie able to overcome her childhood?
(a) By forgiving her mother's eccentricity.
(b) By having a baby to love.
(c) By focusing only on her husband and her work.
(d) By remembering how much her mother really loved her.

2. What kind of winner was Echo?
(a) Grateful and kind.
(b) Quiet, but proud.
(c) Quiet and unassuming.
(d) Obnoxious and cruel.

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

4. What is Dorothea's relationship with her son-in-law?
(a) They do not know each other at all.
(b) They barely tolerate each other.
(c) Dorothea loves him as her own son, but he does not like her.
(d) They are friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Artie accidentally see Echo?

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

3. What are Echo and Artie arguing about in the beginning of scene 4?

4. Artie considered going to the spelling bee as her ___________.

5. How does Artie and Echo's argument end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Echo agree to work towards the National Spelling Bee?

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

5. Why did Dorothea change her granddaughter's name to Echo?

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

7. Why do you think the author chose the book "Robinson Crusoe" to mention as being connected to Artie?

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

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

10. Why do you think that Dorothea reacts so coldly to Artie when she searches for the lock of hair?

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