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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who says that a smart girl will never be married?
(a) Artie's father.
(b) Artie.
(c) Echo.
(d) Dorothea.

3. Artie's fear is considered __________________________.
(a) Not real.
(b) Hypochondria.
(c) A gift.
(d) A neurosis.

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

5. What is the relationship between the women in the family?
(a) Love and charity.
(b) Extreme animosity.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Famial love, tainted with resentment and bitterness.

6. Artie has an inability to do what, regarding Echo?
(a) Drive her to school.
(b) Show affection.
(c) Keep her healthy.
(d) Talk.

7. Who opens scene 2?
(a) Echo's father.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

8. After Dorothea talks about her marriage, what topic does she talk about?
(a) Her great love for her daughter.
(b) Her knowledge base.
(c) Her relationship with her father.
(d) Her first meeting of an eccentric.

9. What was Dorothea's childhood like?
(a) Dorothea's parents doted on Dorothea.
(b) Dorothea had a wonderful childhood filled with love.
(c) Dorothea felt worthless and guilty growing up.
(d) Dorothea had lots of friends and was happy.

10. What children do Dorothea and her husband have?
(a) Just Artie.
(b) A boy and a girl named Artie.
(c) Two sons and Artie, her daughter.
(d) Echo and Artie.

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

12. How do Echo and Dorothea communicate?
(a) Dorothea writes messages on a dry erase board.
(b) Dorothea and Echo learned sign language.
(c) Echo insists that she can hear Dorothea speak even though Dorothea is mute.
(d) Echo can read Dorothea's mind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dorothea marry her husband?

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

3. In scene 2, with what does Artie say she has trouble doing?

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

5. How is Dorothea's health as the play opens?

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