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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of coming to see Echo, what does Artie do?
(a) She asks Echo to meet her.
(b) She write her a letter everyday.
(c) She sometimes calls her on the phone.
(d) She never contacts Echo.

2. What does Artie do when she sees her daughter in scene 5?
(a) She gives her a big hug.
(b) She apologizes for abandoning her and asks for forgiveness.
(c) She has lunch with her.
(d) She runs away.

3. What is Echo's frame of mind as she spells her words?
(a) She is confident and spells them correctly.
(b) She is nervous, but spells them correctly.
(c) She pauses hesitantly after each letter, unsure of herself.
(d) She smiles bravely, but misspells her first word.

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

5. What does Dorothea do when she finds Artie tearing up the house?
(a) She hugs Artie and asks her what is wrong.
(b) She sends Artie to a friends house while she cleans up.
(c) She gives her the lock of hair and says she never wants it back.
(d) She makes Artie stay home from school to clean up.

6. What is Echo's plan for the spelling bee?
(a) To intentionally lose the spelling bee to gain her mother's pity.
(b) To run away at the spelling bee.
(c) To win the spelling bee.
(d) To have both her mother and grandmother come to the spelling bee and be reunited.

7. When Artie comes to Echo's spelling bee, where does she sit?
(a) In the seat next to Dorothea.
(b) In the seat directly behind Dorothea.
(c) Right up front so she can cheer on Echo.
(d) Far away from Dorothea so neither she nor Echo can see her.

8. Why does Echo feel such kinship to Dorothea?
(a) Dorothea reminds Echo of her mother.
(b) Echo feels nokinshipto Dorothea.
(c) Echo feels she is just like Dorothea.
(d) Dorothea raised her.

9. What time of day was it when Dorothea cut the lock of hair from Artie?
(a) Right before bedtime.
(b) At lunchtime.
(c) First thing in the morning
(d) The middle of the night.

10. How does Echo's family feel about her winning the spelling bee?
(a) Very proud.
(b) Upset at how she treated her opponent.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) United in their pride and happiness.

11. Why does Echo buy the Robinson Crusoe book?
(a) She saw her mother looking at it.
(b) Dorothea had told her the story.
(c) She thought it looked like a great story.
(d) Artie recommended it to her when she called.

12. How did the family end up back in Dorothea's house back east?
(a) They took Echo on her first plane ride to get there.
(b) They took a bus.
(c) They hitchhiked across the country.
(d) They drove there after Echo's father died.

13. When Artie calls her daughter on the phone, what does Echo tell Dorothea about the phone call?
(a) That it was from a dead person.
(b) That it was a sales call.
(c) That it was from her father.
(d) That is was a wrong number.

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

15. Why does Artie give Dorothea a kiss after the spelling bee?
(a) Echo asked her to do it.
(b) She wanted to cheer up Dorothea.
(c) She really loves her mother and wants to show it.
(d) She wants to show fake affection for Echo's sake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "vortex"?

2. Who meets up after the spelling bee?

3. Why does Dorothea cut off a lock of Artie's hair?

4. Where does Dorothea live?

5. Why does Dorothea insist that Artie now needs her when Artie calls her the second time in scene 4?

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