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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. How does Artie teach her daughter?
(a) By quizzing her constantly on how to spell words.
(b) By making her do pages of math problems.
(c) By having her use words in a sentence to show that she knows what they mean.
(d) By talking about stories she has read.

2. What does Artie remember from her own childhood?
(a) That her mother sung to her as she put her to bed.
(b) That she loved eating ice cream.
(c) She and her mother baking cookies together.
(d) That her mother used the same banners of Latin and Greek letters with her.

3. What is Artie's relationship to Dorothea?
(a) Artie is Dorothea's father.
(b) Artie is Dorothea's husband.
(c) Artie is Dorothea's daughter.
(d) Artie is Dorothea's granddaughter.

4. Who says that a smart girl will never be married?
(a) Artie.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie's father.
(d) Dorothea.

5. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?
(a) Echo communicating with mute Dorothea.
(b) Artie running to hug her daughter.
(c) Echo spelling the title of the play out loud.
(d) Echo drawing a picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?

2. How many generations of women does this play cover?

3. How many words does Echo misspell when her mother drills her on the phone?

4. How old is Artie when she has her first tutor?

5. What is Dorothea's reaction to Artie's pregnancy?

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 not worried about her own issues?

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

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

5. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

6. How does Dorothea force her value of education over motherhood on Artie?

7. What is the primary complication between the Westbrook women in this play?

8. Why does Artie feel her ability to remember everything is an inconvenience?

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

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

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