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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Artie's relationship to Dorothea?
(a) Artie is Dorothea's granddaughter.
(b) Artie is Dorothea's husband.
(c) Artie is Dorothea's daughter.
(d) Artie is Dorothea's father.

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

3. When Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name, Echo was ___________.
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 5 years old.
(c) 3 months old.
(d) 1 year old.

4. How does Artie communicate with her mother when her mother is mute?
(a) She sings to her.
(b) She talks to her.
(c) She reads to her.
(d) She doesn't.

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

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

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

8. In the opening of scene 2, what does Artie say concerns her the most?
(a) Her mother's health.
(b) Her own inability to touch others.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her fear of flying.

9. What is the happy time that Dorothea recalls in her life?
(a) Going to college.
(b) Having her first child.
(c) Meeting the eccentric.
(d) Marrying her husband.

10. Who first taught Echo to love words?
(a) Echo's father.
(b) Echo's aunt.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

11. Who enters the first scene wearing wings?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) No one.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The play's title is most relevant to which character?

2. What dream does Artie have?

3. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?

4. What did Echo and her mother talk about on the phone?

5. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?

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