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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 kind of winner was Echo?
(a) Quiet, but proud.
(b) Grateful and kind.
(c) Obnoxious and cruel.
(d) Quiet and unassuming.

2. What does Dorothea do when she finds Artie tearing up the house?
(a) She gives her the lock of hair and says she never wants it back.
(b) She makes Artie stay home from school to clean up.
(c) She hugs Artie and asks her what is wrong.
(d) She sends Artie to a friends house while she cleans up.

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

4. What chance of reuniting her family through the spelling bee did Echo have?
(a) A great chance, just by getting everyone together.
(b) A really good chance, if she won.
(c) No chance at all.
(d) A really good chance, if she lost.

5. What is Artie's response to Dorothea being back in her life?
(a) Seeing Dorothea brings back all the trauma of her childhood.
(b) She is jealous of her mother's relationship with her husband.
(c) She is very grateful to have her mother's help.
(d) She is overjoyed to be back in her mother's life.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many times did Echo read Robinson Crusoe?

4. What happens when Echo is seven?

5. What excuse does the spelling bee give Artie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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