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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 children do Dorothea and her husband have?
(a) Two sons and Artie, her daughter.
(b) Echo and Artie.
(c) Just Artie.
(d) A boy and a girl named Artie.

2. What does Dorothea do after graduating from high school?
(a) She takes a job as a waitress.
(b) She marries.
(c) She goes to college.
(d) She becomes pregnant.

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

4. For Dorothea, eccentricity means _____________________her child.
(a) Exploiting.
(b) Loving.
(c) Having fun with.
(d) Leaving.

5. Why were Artie and Echo's conversations limited?
(a) Dorothea interupted their phone conversations.
(b) Echo would only talk about one thing.
(c) Dorothea would not allow them to talk on the phone.
(d) Artie did not know any other way to reach out to her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Echo and Dorothea communicate?

2. When Artie is _______________ she becomes pregnant.

3. Dorothea changed her granddaughter's name to ______________________.

4. What foreshadows the relationship between Echo and Artie in the first scene?

5. What trait does Artie say she has that makes her life so hard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the controller in the play? Who is being controlled?

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

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

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

8. Why does Dorothea decide to take on a life of eccentricity?

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

10. Why do you think Dorothea has such high expectations of Artie?

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