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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dorothea meet at the picnic?
(a) A professor at the university.
(b) A self-proclaimed eccentric.
(c) A psychic.
(d) Her future husband.

2. What news does Artie have for her mother when she calls her for the second time in scene 4?
(a) She is unmarried and pregnant.
(b) She is married to a professor, is about to finish her graduate degree in BioChem, and is pregnant.
(c) She has flunked out of college.
(d) She is sick and needs help.

3. Why did Dorothea choose the name she did for her granddaughter?
(a) So she would only remember the good about people and "echo" it back.
(b) Because she liked the sound of it.
(c) Because her own mother was named Echo, and she loved her very much.
(d) So that she would have a good memory and "echo" back her knowledge.

4. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?
(a) Echo drawing a picture.
(b) Artie running to hug her daughter.
(c) Echo spelling the title of the play out loud.
(d) Echo communicating with mute Dorothea.

5. What does Dorothea do after graduating from high school?
(a) She takes a job as a waitress.
(b) She becomes pregnant.
(c) She goes to college.
(d) She marries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Echo's relationship to Dorothea?

2. What does Dorothea's husband promise her, but then does not fulfill?

3. What does Artie accomplish on her own?

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

5. What does Dorothea do to help Artie learn?

(see the answer key)

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