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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Artie's mother want her to do when Artie was young?
(a) To spell "eleemosynary."
(b) To study to become a doctor.
(c) To make a pair of wings.
(d) To try to fly with homemade wings.

2. What happens on Artie's way back home at the end of scene 2?
(a) She escapes through a restaurant window.
(b) She is robbed.
(c) She becomes lost in the airport.
(d) She gets in a terrible automobile accident.

3. What does Dorothea's husband promise her, but then does not fulfill?
(a) That they will live in a big house.
(b) That Dorothea can have children.
(c) That they will move to the country.
(d) That Dorothea can go to college.

4. What is Artie's response to Dorothea being back in her life?
(a) She is overjoyed to be back in her mother's life.
(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 very grateful to have her mother's help.

5. How does the play open?
(a) Echo is spelling out the word eleemosynary.
(b) Echo hangs up the phone.
(c) Dorothea tries to make Artie fly.
(d) Echo explains how she was raised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Artie name her daughter?

2. What does Artie accomplish on her own?

3. What is an eccentric?

4. After the picnic, what does Dorothea decide she should become?

5. How was Artie able to overcome her childhood?

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