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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. What was Dorothea's childhood like?

2. Which character ends scene 1?

3. What do the wings represent to Artie?

4. At what point in scene 3 does the audience lose sympathy for Dorothea?

5. What does Dorothea's husband promise her, but then does not fulfill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is it ironic that Artie constantly drills spelling words to Echo?

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

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

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

9. Why do you think Artie is unable to communicate effectively with her daughter?

10. How are the 3 main characters related to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Artie said she could remember everything and was against total recall as a form of learning. Despite this, she drilled Echo repeatedly on spelling words. Why do you think she chose to teach Echo in this way? What other factors may have played into her decision?

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