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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. Why does Artie tear up the house in scene 5?
(a) She is mad at her mother and is throwing a tantrum.
(b) She is looking for the homemade wings.
(c) She was looking for her favorite book.
(d) She is searching for the lock of hair.

2. What are Echo and Artie arguing about in the beginning of scene 4?
(a) About who should take care of Dorothea.
(b) About Artie leaving Echo as a child.
(c) About Echo's education.
(d) Whether or not Dorothea can hear them in her coma.

3. In reference to Echo and Artie's argument in the beginning of scene 4, what does Artie believe?
(a) That Dorothea's coma is her fault.
(b) That Dorothea can hear them in her coma.
(c) That Dorothea is a vegetable.
(d) That Dorothea needs them to intereact with her.

4. How did the family end up back in Dorothea's house back east?
(a) They hitchhiked across the country.
(b) They drove there after Echo's father died.
(c) They took Echo on her first plane ride to get there.
(d) They took a bus.

5. Why does Dorothea cut off a lock of Artie's hair?
(a) She wanted to compare Artie's hair with her own.
(b) Dorothea says it will always be a connection to her daughter, Artie.
(c) She was giving Artie a hair cut.
(d) Artie had gum in her hair and she was cutting it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Echo's plan for the spelling bee?

2. Artie considered going to the spelling bee as her ___________.

3. What is Dorothea's relationship with her son-in-law?

4. What is Dorothea doing when scene 4 opens?

5. What did Echo think about her mother when she was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the author chose the book "Robinson Crusoe" to mention as being connected to Artie?

2. Why do you think Echo said Artie was just a dead person when she called in scene 4?

3. Why do you think the author chose to "kill off"all the male characters in the play?

4. Why did Artie move and change her name so many times?

5. What do all of the "educational stops " which the Westbrook women made have in common?

6. Why do you think that Dorothea reacts so coldly to Artie when she searches for the lock of hair?

7. Why do you think Artie left her daughter with Dorothea, despite her own traumatic childhood with her mother?

8. Why do you think that Echo put on the wings in the beginning of scene 5?

9. Why is Echo so ruthless in her defeat of the little boy?

10. After all her time away from Dorothea, why do you think Artie finally called her?

(see the answer keys)

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