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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. Echo is obsessed with __________________.
(a) Running.
(b) The wings.
(c) Spelling words.
(d) Her mother.

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

3. Artie has an inability to do what, regarding Echo?
(a) Talk.
(b) Keep her healthy.
(c) Drive her to school.
(d) Show affection.

4. 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.

5. Who says that a smart girl will never be married?
(a) Artie's father.
(b) Artie.
(c) Echo.
(d) Dorothea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method of learning is Artie against?

2. At what point in scene 3 does the audience lose sympathy for Dorothea?

3. Who opens scene 2?

4. What great skill does Echo have?

5. How does Dorothea find Artie at the end of scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In scene 1, Dorothea has had a stroke and is rendered mute. Why do you think Echo insists she can hear Dorothea?

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

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

7. Why do you think Artie is unable to communicate effectively with her daughter?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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