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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the last name of the family in this play?
(a) Westover.
(b) Westbrook.
(c) Heathers.
(d) Brookshire.

3. What did Echo and her mother talk about on the phone?
(a) Artie called out words for Echo to spell.
(b) Artie told Echo how to fly.
(c) Artie asked questions about Dorothea.
(d) Artie told Echo stories about her childhood.

4. The play's title is most relevant to which character?
(a) Echo.
(b) Artie.
(c) Dorothea.
(d) Echo's father.

5. Scene 2 begins and ends with which character?
(a) Artie's father.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What children do Dorothea and her husband have?

2. Why does Dorothea marry her husband?

3. After the picnic, what does Dorothea decide she should become?

4. Echo is obsessed with __________________.

5. What dream does Artie have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Artie will be able to function away from her mother?

2. What are the basic relationships between the Westbrook women?

3. What do you think the purpose of this scene 3 is?

4. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

5. Who ignited Echo's original love of words?

6. What skill does Echo have, and how does this skill become a form of communication between Echo and her mother?

7. Who is Artie named after and how does this name match her personality?

8. Why does Artie feel that she was Dorothea's guinea pig as she grew up?

9. What do you think the author's purpose was in having Echo spelling heard between Dorothea's recollections?

10. In scene 1, Dorothea has had a stroke and is rendered mute. Why do you think Echo insists she can hear Dorothea?

(see the answer keys)

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