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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dorothea doing when scene 4 opens?
(a) Dorothea is teaching Artie her alphabet.
(b) Dorothea is taking a walk in the park.
(c) Dorothea is in a coma in a hospital bed.
(d) Dorothea is teaching Echo her alphabet.

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

3. How does Artie tell Echo about the National Spelling Bee?
(a) At Dorothea's house.
(b) Over the phone.
(c) She tells her about it over lunch at the deli.
(d) At the book fair.

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

5. 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 married to a professor, is about to finish her graduate degree in BioChem, and is pregnant.
(d) She is unmarried and pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Artie teach her daughter?

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

3. What does Artie do after her pregnancy?

4. Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name to ______________________.

5. After Artie accidentally sees Echo in scene 5, what does she suggest to Echo?

(see the answer key)

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