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

2. Who raised Echo?
(a) An orphanage.
(b) Echo's father.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

3. Who does Dorothea meet at the picnic?
(a) Her future husband.
(b) A self-proclaimed eccentric.
(c) A professor at the university.
(d) A psychic.

4. Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name to ______________________.
(a) Echo.
(b) Jane.
(c) Barbara.
(d) Dorothea.

5. Where in scene 3 does the audience feel sympathy for Dorothea?
(a) When Dorothea is pregnant with Artie.
(b) When Dorothea meets her husband.
(c) When Dorothea is tremendously ill.
(d) When Dorothea is forced into marriage and deprived of an education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artie's fear is considered __________________________.

2. Who opens the third scene?

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

4. How did Artie's father feel about her having tutors?

5. How do Echo and Dorothea communicate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Artie begins and ends scene two. What do we learn about the character?

4. At what point in scene 3 do you think the audience loses sympathy for Dorothea?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is it ironic that Artie constantly drills spelling words to Echo?

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

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