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

2. Why does Artie leave Echo with Dorothea?
(a) Artie does not have the money to care for her daughter.
(b) Artie has a job offer in Europe.
(c) Artie is too sick to care for Echo.
(d) Artie believes that Dorothea needs Echo.

3. Where does Artie accidentally see Echo?
(a) At a book fair.
(b) At the movies.
(c) In the mall.
(d) In a restaurant.

4. In reference to Echo and Artie's argument in the beginning of scene 4, what does Echo believe?
(a) That Dorothea will never recover.
(b) That Dorothea's coma is Artie's fault.
(c) That Dorothea can hear them in her coma.
(d) That Dorothea cannot hear them in her coma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Dorothea so proud of two year old Echo?

2. What is Echo's final word in the spelling bee?

3. Why does Echo buy the Robinson Crusoe book?

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

5. What news does Artie have for her mother when she calls her for the second time in scene 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Artie suggest to Echo to practice for the National Spelling Bee?

4. How does what Dorothea says about the lock of hair always connecting her to Artie foreshadow their relationship?

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

6. Why did Dorothea change her granddaughter's name to Echo?

7. Why does Echo agree to work towards the National Spelling Bee?

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

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

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

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