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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 is winning the spelling bee so important to Echo?
(a) She wants the prize for winning.
(b) She wants her grandmother to be proud of her.
(c) She wants her mother to be proud of her.
(d) She thinks it will reunite her mother and grandmother.

2. What news does Artie have for her mother when she calls her for the second time in scene 4?
(a) She has flunked out of college.
(b) She is married to a professor, is about to finish her graduate degree in BioChem, and is pregnant.
(c) She is sick and needs help.
(d) She is unmarried and pregnant.

3. How does Dorothea help Echo remember her mother when Artie is gone?
(a) She occasionally shows Echo pictures of her mother.
(b) She never does anyhting to help her remember Artie.
(c) She keeps lots of pictures of Artie aound the house.
(d) She talks about Artie all the time.

4. What does Artie accomplish on her own?
(a) She writes a book.
(b) She opens her own restaurant.
(c) She puts herself through college.
(d) She raises her daughter on her own.

5. Why does Artie not like the vortex?
(a) She feels uncomfortable standing in a circle.
(b) It disturbs her because she does not like rules to be broken.
(c) She thought the building might fall down with her in it.
(d) She does not like the loud noise of racecars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many names did Artie take on to keep from being found?

2. What chance of reuniting her family through the spelling bee did Echo have?

3. What are Echo and Artie arguing about in the beginning of scene 4?

4. Why does Artie tear up the house in scene 5?

5. Why aren't Artie and Dorothea happy about Echo winning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Artie's choice of seat at the Spelling Bee a metaphor for her life?

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

4. Why do you think Dorothea wanted Echo to be so willing to give forgiveness?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Artie feel that she has fulfilled her commitment to Echo?

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