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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 do the wings represent to Artie?
(a) A way that she can finally fly.
(b) A gift from a loving mother.
(c) A wonderful time from her childhood.
(d) Her terrible childhood with an eccentric, controlling mother.

2. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?
(a) Dorothea's mother.
(b) Echo.
(c) Artie.
(d) Dorothea.

3. Where does Artie find employment at the end of scene 2?
(a) At a private school.
(b) Artie can't find a job.
(c) At a small college.
(d) At a restaurant.

4. How does Dorothea teach her granddaughter?
(a) With a dictionary.
(b) With a book of Shakespeare's plays.
(c) With a video tape.
(d) With banners of Latin and Greek letters.

5. Who made the wings that a character is wearing in the first scene?
(a) Artie.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Echo's sister.
(d) Echo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Echo and her mother talk about on the phone?

2. How does the play open?

3. What does Dorothea do to help Artie learn?

4. Echo is obsessed with __________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

2. How are the 3 main characters related to each other?

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

4. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

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

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

7. Why do you think Dorothea felt little or no grief when her husband died?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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