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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many times did Artie run away?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 1 time.
(d) 3 times.

3. 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 from her father.
(c) That it was a sales call.
(d) That is was a wrong number.

4. What did Echo remember about the trip back east?
(a) Nothing, since she was just a baby.
(b) Visiting an Indian burial ground,
(c) Stopping at all the restaurants to eat.
(d) Visiting a landing strip for UFOs.

5. How does Artie feel when she sees her daughter in scene 5?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pure joy.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Panicked.

6. What happens when Echo is seven?
(a) Artie moves back in the house with Dorothea and Echo.
(b) Artie remarries and takes Echo back to live with her.
(c) Artie gets a job 50 miles away from her.
(d) Echo runs away.

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

8. What is Artie's response to Dorothea being back in her life?
(a) She is very grateful to have her mother's help.
(b) She is overjoyed to be back in her mother's life.
(c) She is jealous of her mother's relationship with her husband.
(d) Seeing Dorothea brings back all the trauma of her childhood.

9. What did Echo think about her mother when she was young?
(a) Artie thought her mother was in jail.
(b) Artie thought she didn't have a mother.
(c) Artie thought her mother was a movie star.
(d) Artie never gave her mother any thought.

10. How does Dorothea help Echo remember her mother when Artie is gone?
(a) She occasionally shows Echo pictures of her mother.
(b) She never does anyhting to help her remember Artie.
(c) She keeps lots of pictures of Artie aound the house.
(d) She talks about Artie all the time.

11. What does Dorothea do with the lock of hair?
(a) She puts in a frame in the living room.
(b) She hides it from Artie.
(c) She throws it away.
(d) She puts in a locket which she wears.

12. Why is winning the spelling bee so important to Echo?
(a) She wants her mother to be proud of her.
(b) She wants the prize for winning.
(c) She thinks it will reunite her mother and grandmother.
(d) She wants her grandmother to be proud of her.

13. Why aren't Artie and Dorothea happy about Echo winning?
(a) They feel sorry for the little boy Echo defeated.
(b) They didn't want Echo to think anything had changed between them.
(c) They think that Echo cheated.
(d) They wanted Echo to feel what it was like to lose.

14. Why was Echo happy to hear the word "eleemosynary" at the spelling bee?
(a) Her mother loved the word.
(b) She had never heard it before, but could sound it out.
(c) It was the longest word she knew.
(d) It is her favorite word.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Echo's plan for the spelling bee?

2. How many times did Artie say she moved?

3. What is Echo doing as scene 5 opens?

4. How did the family end up back in Dorothea's house back east?

5. In reference to Echo and Artie's argument in the beginning of scene 4, what does Artie believe?

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