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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Artie and Echo's argument end?
(a) They agree to disagree, and both sit with Dorothea.
(b) Artie leaves in frustration.
(c) Echo leaves in frustration.
(d) Echo convinces Artie to talk to Dorothea.

2. After Artie accidentally sees Echo in scene 5, what does she suggest to Echo?
(a) That Echo now come to live with her.
(b) That Echo and Dorothea come and visit her.
(c) That Echo try out for the National Spelling Bee.
(d) That they have dinner together and talk about Echo's schooling.

3. What is Dorothea doing when scene 4 opens?
(a) Dorothea is in a coma in a hospital bed.
(b) Dorothea is teaching Artie her alphabet.
(c) Dorothea is teaching Echo her alphabet.
(d) Dorothea is taking a walk in the park.

4. Who meets up after the spelling bee?
(a) Echo's father and Artie.
(b) Dorothea and Echo.
(c) Echo and Artie.
(d) Artie and Dorothea.

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

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

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

8. Why does Dorothea insist that Artie now needs her when Artie calls her the second time in scene 4?
(a) She needs help finding an apartment.
(b) She needs help to get well.
(c) She will need help with the baby.
(d) She needs her help to find a job.

9. How does Dorothea and Artie's phone call first phone call in scene 4 end?
(a) Artie hangs up.
(b) They make plans to meet the next day.
(c) Dorothea hangs up.
(d) They say good-bye, promising to talk again soon.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. How was Artie able to overcome her childhood?
(a) By focusing only on her husband and her work.
(b) By forgiving her mother's eccentricity.
(c) By remembering how much her mother really loved her.
(d) By having a baby to love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Echo feel when her opponent crumbles?

2. What time of day was it when Dorothea cut the lock of hair from Artie?

3. How many times did Artie say she moved?

4. What are Echo and Artie arguing about in the beginning of scene 4?

5. How many names did Artie take on to keep from being found?

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