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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 many times was Artie pregnant?
(a) 3 times.
(b) Once.
(c) Twice.
(d) 4 times.

2. Who opens the third scene?
(a) Echo.
(b) Artie.
(c) Dorothea.
(d) Artie's father.

3. Why does Dorothea marry her husband?
(a) She is forced into the marriage by her father.
(b) Dorothea loves him.
(c) Dorothea wants to have children.
(d) Dorothea marries him for money.

4. What is the relationship between the women in the family?
(a) Extreme animosity.
(b) Love and charity.
(c) Famial love, tainted with resentment and bitterness.
(d) Indifference.

5. Which character ends scene 1?
(a) Artie's aunt.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Echo.
(d) Artie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Dorothea's health as the play opens?

2. How does Dorothea feel about her husband?

3. Dorothea tries to _________________________ Artie.

4. What is Artie's relationship to Dorothea?

5. Who enters the first scene wearing wings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

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

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