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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 happens to Dorothea's husband?
(a) He is crippled in an accident.
(b) He leaves Dorothea.
(c) He has a stroke and is unable to communicate.
(d) He dies suddenly.

2. Why does Dorothea marry her husband?
(a) She is forced into the marriage by her father.
(b) Dorothea loves him.
(c) Dorothea wants to have children.
(d) Dorothea marries him for money.

3. What did Artie's mother want her to do when Artie was young?
(a) To make a pair of wings.
(b) To study to become a doctor.
(c) To try to fly with homemade wings.
(d) To spell "eleemosynary."

4. What dream does Artie have?
(a) That she is able to fly through the sky with homemade wings.
(b) That her mother burns all Artie's books.
(c) That her mother has a terrible accident.
(d) That Echo falls out of a tree.

5. What happened when Artie tried to fly?
(a) She flew around the yard.
(b) She started to fly, and then fell.
(c) She refused to try.
(d) She failed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character ends scene 1?

2. Scene 2 begins and ends with which character?

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

4. How old is Echo when the plays opens?

5. Echo is obsessed with __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Dorothea felt little or no grief when her husband died?

2. Why do you think Artie is unable to communicate effectively with her daughter?

3. How is Dorothea's educational treatment of Echo similar to how she raised Artie?

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

5. How does Dorothea's choice to become an eccentric take away Artie's freedom?

6. Why do you think Artie runs away instead of letting her mother send her to college?

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

8. What is the opening action of this play, and what does this foreshadow?

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

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

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