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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. In scene 2, with what does Artie say she has trouble doing?
(a) Physically touching others, even her daughter.
(b) Spelling words.
(c) Flying with homemade wings.
(d) Running the mile.

2. What does Artie do after her pregnancy?
(a) Artie gets a job at a restaurant.
(b) Artie runs away.
(c) Artie decides to be a stay-at-home mom.
(d) Artie goes to college.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the wings look?

3. How many times was Artie pregnant?

4. What is Echo's relationship to Artie?

5. What does Dorothea value over motherhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

3. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

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

5. Why do you think Artie is not worried about her own issues?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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