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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 Echo's plan for the spelling bee?
(a) To run away at the spelling bee.
(b) To have both her mother and grandmother come to the spelling bee and be reunited.
(c) To win the spelling bee.
(d) To intentionally lose the spelling bee to gain her mother's pity.

2. Scene 2 begins and ends with which character?
(a) Artie's father.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

3. What is an eccentric?
(a) A person who can spell very well.
(b) A person who is kind to everyone.
(c) A person completely unbound by the ordinary rules and responsibilities the rest of society must accept.
(d) A person of extreme intelligence.

4. What does Dorothea value over motherhood?
(a) Education.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Love.
(d) Fun.

5. How does Dorothea feel about her husband?
(a) Dorothea hates her husband.
(b) Dorothea loves him dearly.
(c) Dorothea feels pity for her husband.
(d) Dorothea feels no grief when he dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie do after her pregnancy?

2. How did the family end up back in Dorothea's house back east?

3. What does Artie inform Dorothea of after the spelling bee?

4. Where in scene 3 does the audience feel sympathy for Dorothea?

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

(see the answer key)

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