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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who opens the third scene?
(a) Artie.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Echo.
(d) Artie's father.

2. What is the difference between the little boy losing and Echo losing, from Echo's perspective?
(a) If the little boy won, Echo would finally get her family's sympathy.
(b) Echo would not have another chance at winning, but the little boy was younger and would have more opportunities.
(c) The little boy would lose the competition, while Echo would lose her home.
(d) The little boy would just lose, while Echo would fail to reunite her family.

3. 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 married to a professor, is about to finish her graduate degree in BioChem, and is pregnant.
(c) She is unmarried and pregnant.
(d) She is sick and needs help.

4. What can eccentricity do for Dorothea?
(a) Be a way to finally get her education.
(b) Offer an escape from the mendacity of her life as well as an outlet for her creativity and intelligence.
(c) Make her a better mother.
(d) Make her famous.

5. Artie considered going to the spelling bee as her ___________.
(a) Privilege.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Duty.
(d) Punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dorothea's childhood like?

2. How old was Artie when Dorothea cut off the lock of her hair?

3. How does the play open?

4. In scene 2 when the scene fades to black, where is the audience's attention redirected to?

5. Who opens scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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