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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 is Echo's relationship to Artie?

2. What does Dorothea value over motherhood?

3. How do Echo and Dorothea communicate?

4. What does Artie do after her pregnancy?

5. Who is Artie named after?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Artie ever rebel from Dorothea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why do you think Artie is not worried about her own issues?

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

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

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

Foreshadowing is used throughout Eleemosynary. Discuss examples of it and how it increases understanding 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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