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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) Just Artie.
(b) A boy and a girl named Artie.
(c) Two sons and Artie, her daughter.
(d) Echo and Artie.

2. How concerned is Artie about her fear?
(a) Not at all.
(b) A little.
(c) Very.
(d) Moderately.

3. After the picnic, what does Dorothea decide she should become?
(a) A psychic.
(b) An eccentric.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A teacher.

4. What does Dorothea's husband promise her, but then does not fulfill?
(a) That Dorothea can go to college.
(b) That Dorothea can have children.
(c) That they will move to the country.
(d) That they will live in a big house.

5. How does Dorothea feel about her husband?
(a) Dorothea feels no grief when he dies.
(b) Dorothea feels pity for her husband.
(c) Dorothea loves him dearly.
(d) Dorothea hates her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Dorothea, eccentricity means _____________________her child.

2. Which character re-enters in the middle of scene 3?

3. What does Artie do after her pregnancy?

4. What is the happy time that Dorothea recalls in her life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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