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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. What does Dorothea do when she finds Artie tearing up the house?
(a) She sends Artie to a friends house while she cleans 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 makes Artie stay home from school to clean up.

2. Why does Artie give Dorothea a kiss after the spelling bee?
(a) She really loves her mother and wants to show it.
(b) Echo asked her to do it.
(c) She wants to show fake affection for Echo's sake.
(d) She wanted to cheer up Dorothea.

3. In reference to Echo and Artie's argument in the beginning of scene 4, what does Artie believe?
(a) That Dorothea needs them to intereact with her.
(b) That Dorothea's coma is her fault.
(c) That Dorothea is a vegetable.
(d) That Dorothea can hear them in her coma.

4. Which 3 things were most important about the trip back east to Artie?
(a) A voodoo cult, Edgar Cayce's birthplace, and Edgar Cayce's grave.
(b) The voodoo cult, a landing strip for UFOs, and a man who had been to the moon.
(c) Edgar Cayce's birthplace, Edgar Cayce's grave, and Edgar Cayce's wife's grave.
(d) An indian burial ground, a voodoo cult and a convention of faith healers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Artie not like the vortex?

2. Why is Dorothea so proud of two year old Echo?

3. What does Artie do when she sees her daughter in scene 5?

4. Why does Dorothea insist that Artie now needs her when Artie calls her the second time in scene 4?

5. Why did Dorothea choose the name she did for her granddaughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Artie realizes the importance of the spelling bee to Echo?

2. Why do you think that Echo put on the wings in the beginning of scene 5?

3. Why are Artie and Echo arguing over Dorothea as scene 4 opens?

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

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

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

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

8. Why do you think Artie left her daughter with Dorothea, despite her own traumatic childhood with her mother?

9. How does what Dorothea says about the lock of hair always connecting her to Artie foreshadow their relationship?

10. Why do you think Echo said Artie was just a dead person when she called in scene 4?

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