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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 many words does Echo misspell when her mother drills her on the phone?

2. What trait does Artie say she has that makes her life so hard?

3. How does Dorothea meet her husband?

4. How does the play open?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Artie feel her ability to remember everything is an inconvenience?

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

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

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

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

6. Why do you think Dorothea felt little or no grief when her husband died?

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

8. In scene 1, Dorothea has had a stroke and is rendered mute. Why do you think Echo insists she can hear Dorothea?

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

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

Artie was set up for failure repeatedly by Dorothea's unreasonable expectations. Explore these scenes and write about how these early events later influenced Artie's life choices. Give evidence from the play to support your thoughts.

Essay Topic 3

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

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