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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where in scene 3 does the audience feel sympathy for Dorothea?
(a) When Dorothea meets her husband.
(b) When Dorothea is pregnant with Artie.
(c) When Dorothea is tremendously ill.
(d) When Dorothea is forced into marriage and deprived of an education.

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

4. The play's title is most relevant to which character?
(a) Echo's father.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

5. How does Dorothea find Artie at the end of scene 2?
(a) WIth a map and compass.
(b) Dorothea never finds Artie.
(c) With the help of a private investigator.
(d) With the help of Echo.

6. How many times was Artie pregnant?
(a) Twice.
(b) 3 times.
(c) Once.
(d) 4 times.

7. What is Echo's relationship to Artie?
(a) Echo is Artie's daughter.
(b) Echo is Artie's sister.
(c) Echo is Artie's mother.
(d) Echo is Artie's granddaughter.

8. In scene 2 when the scene fades to black, where is the audience's attention redirected to?
(a) Artie.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Echo.
(d) Artie's father.

9. What is Echo's relationship to Dorothea?
(a) Echo is Dorothea's mother.
(b) Echo is Dorothea's daughter.
(c) Echo is Dorothea's granddaughter.
(d) Echo is Dorothea's friend.

10. What trait does Artie say she has that makes her life so hard?
(a) She has freckles.
(b) She cannot remember details.
(c) She is unable to forget anything.
(d) She is too tall.

11. What great skill does Echo have?
(a) Echo is a great cook.
(b) Echo can fly with homemade wings.
(c) Echo is able to spell very well.
(d) Echo can run very fast.

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

13. What does Artie remember from her own childhood?
(a) She and her mother baking cookies together.
(b) That her mother used the same banners of Latin and Greek letters with her.
(c) That her mother sung to her as she put her to bed.
(d) That she loved eating ice cream.

14. How does Artie feel about the outcome of her pregnancy?
(a) Relief.
(b) Deeply traumatized.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Happiness.

15. What did Artie name her daughter?
(a) Echo.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Artie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words does Echo misspell when her mother drills her on the phone?

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

3. What is the relationship between the women in the family?

4. For Dorothea, eccentricity means _____________________her child.

5. Scene 2 begins and ends with which character?

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