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

2. How many times did Echo read Robinson Crusoe?
(a) 10 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 17 times.
(d) 3 times.

3. What happens when Echo is seven?
(a) Echo runs away.
(b) Artie gets a job 50 miles away from her.
(c) Artie remarries and takes Echo back to live with her.
(d) Artie moves back in the house with Dorothea and Echo.

4. What is Echo doing as scene 5 opens?
(a) Echo is sleeping.
(b) Echo is talking to her father.
(c) Echo is wearing the wings.
(d) Echo is spelling out loud.

5. Which 3 things were most important about the trip back east to Artie?
(a) The voodoo cult, a landing strip for UFOs, and a man who had been to the moon.
(b) Edgar Cayce's birthplace, Edgar Cayce's grave, and Edgar Cayce's wife's grave.
(c) An indian burial ground, a voodoo cult and a convention of faith healers.
(d) A voodoo cult, Edgar Cayce's birthplace, and Edgar Cayce's grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artie do when she sees her daughter in scene 5?

2. What does Echo do as Artie leaves the auditorium after the spelling bee?

3. How was Artie able to overcome her childhood?

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

5. How old was Artie when Dorothea cut off the lock of her hair?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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