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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dorothea meet her husband?

2. In scene 3, which character does the audience meet more fully?

3. Where does Artie find employment at the end of scene 2?

4. Who raised Echo?

5. When Artie is _______________ she becomes pregnant.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Artie named after and how does this name match her personality?

2. What are the basic relationships between the Westbrook women?

3. Why does Artie feel that she was Dorothea's guinea pig as she grew up?

4. What skill does Echo have, and how does this skill become a form of communication between Echo and her mother?

5. Do you think Artie will be able to function away from her mother?

6. Artie begins and ends scene two. What do we learn about the character?

7. Why do you think Dorothea has such high expectations of Artie?

8. At what point in scene 3 do you think the audience loses sympathy for Dorothea?

9. What is the opening action of this play, and what does this foreshadow?

10. What do you think the purpose of this scene 3 is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Dorothea is in a coma, Artie and Echo fight about whether or not there is any value in interacting with Dorothea. Artie believes that Dorothea is nothing more than a vegetable. Echo believes she is still a person with feelings. Why do you think the characters are acting as they are? Use examples from the play to explain their actions.

Essay Topic 2

At some points in the play, Artie seems to have freed herself of her past and becomes a successful, functioning, happy individual. At what point is this true, and which events turn her life back around into the character she again becomes at the end of the play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Echo's treatment of the little boy at the spelling bee. Why does Echo act so cruelly, which is seemingly out of character for her?

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