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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. After Artie accidentally sees Echo in scene 5, what does she suggest to Echo?
(a) That they have dinner together and talk about Echo's schooling.
(b) That Echo try out for the National Spelling Bee.
(c) That Echo and Dorothea come and visit her.
(d) That Echo now come to live with her.

2. What does Echo feel when her opponent crumbles?
(a) She is appalled by his behavior.
(b) She thinks he is over reacting.
(c) She doesn't even notice.
(d) She feels sorry for him.

3. Where does Dorothea live?
(a) In an apartment in Artie's building.
(b) About an hour away from Artie's house.
(c) In a house next door to Artie.
(d) In a house near Artie.

4. How does Dorothea and Artie's phone call first phone call in scene 4 end?
(a) Dorothea hangs up.
(b) They make plans to meet the next day.
(c) Artie hangs up.
(d) They say good-bye, promising to talk again soon.

5. What is Echo's frame of mind as she spells her words?
(a) She is confident and spells them correctly.
(b) She is nervous, but spells them correctly.
(c) She pauses hesitantly after each letter, unsure of herself.
(d) She smiles bravely, but misspells her first word.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Echo remember about the trip back east?

2. Instead of coming to see Echo, what does Artie do?

3. How does Dorothea feel when she finds Artie searching for the lock of hair?

4. Why does Echo buy the Robinson Crusoe book?

5. What was important about the trip back east to Dorothea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Artie realizes the importance of the spelling bee to Echo?

2. Why does Dorothea cut a lock of Artie's hair?

3. What evidence is there in scene 5 that Echo is intrigued by her mother and wants to get to know her?

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

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

6. How do Artie and Dorothea feel about Echo's winning of the spelling bee?

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

8. Why are Artie and Echo arguing over Dorothea as scene 4 opens?

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

10. Why is Echo unable to see what she is doing to the little boy in the Spelling Bee?

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