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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. Who enters the first scene wearing wings?

2. How does Dorothea find Artie at the end of scene 2?

3. Scene 2 begins and ends with which character?

4. How does Artie teach her daughter?

5. Where in scene 3 does the audience feel sympathy for Dorothea?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Dorothea's choice to become an eccentric take away Artie's freedom?

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

4. How does Dorothea force her value of education over motherhood on Artie?

5. What is the primary complication between the Westbrook women in this play?

6. Who is the controller in the play? Who is being controlled?

7. Why do you think Artie runs away instead of letting her mother send her to college?

8. Who ignited Echo's original love of words?

9. What does Artie admit is her own neurosis?

10. How is Dorothea's educational treatment of Echo similar to how she raised Artie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Echo never really has a chance to reunite her mother and grandmother. Discuss why she believes she can, and how she plans it.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dorothea's reaction to Artie searching for her lock of hair. Why is this so important to Dorothea, and is Dorothea reasonable in her reaction to Artie's search?

Essay Topic 3

Dorothea admits that in the last years of her life she is more concerned about her daughter, from whom he is estranged, rather than her granddaughter, whom she is raising. Why do you think this is true, and what may be the affects of this on Echo?

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