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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For Dorothea, eccentricity means _____________________her child.
(a) Leaving.
(b) Loving.
(c) Exploiting.
(d) Having fun with.

3. How is Dorothea's health as the play opens?
(a) Dorothea has had a stroke and is mute.
(b) Dorothea has a broken arm.
(c) Dorothea has a concussion from falling.
(d) Dorothea is in excellent health.

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

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

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

7. Dorothea tries to _________________________ Artie.
(a) Free.
(b) Undermine.
(c) Control.
(d) Encourage.

8. How does Dorothea meet her husband?
(a) She meets him in college.
(b) Her friends introduces them.
(c) Her father arranges the marriage.
(d) She meets him in the restaurant where she works.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What dream does Artie have?
(a) That she is able to fly through the sky with homemade wings.
(b) That her mother has a terrible accident.
(c) That her mother burns all Artie's books.
(d) That Echo falls out of a tree.

15. Echo is obsessed with __________________.
(a) Spelling words.
(b) The wings.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Running.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of the family in this play?

2. How many times was Artie pregnant?

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

4. How many generations of women does this play cover?

5. At what point in scene 3 does the audience lose sympathy for Dorothea?

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