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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 type of flowers does Elliot refuse to have in Ginny's funeral wreath?

2. When Yazmin gets a text message from Elliot's dad while she and Elliot are talking on the phone, what does it say?

3. In what country was Orangutan born?

4. What does Ginny do that Yaz views as a sign of healthy progress?

5. How many years of sobriety does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan that he has?

Short Essay Questions

1. In return for agreeing to deliver Ginny's eulogy, what does Yazmin ask Elliot to do for her?

2. How does Odessa/Haikumom handle her job as site administrator and what are her duties?

3. What are Clay/ChutesandLadders's and Madeleine/Orangutan's reactions to John/Fountainhead's first post on the Addiction Support forum?

4. What new information does the audience learn about John/Fountainhead within Scene 6 during his second appearance on the Addiction Support forum?

5. What behaviors of Ginny's near the end of her life are upsetting Elliot so much that he enlists Yazmin's help?

6. What is ironic about Yazmin's purported hatred of public speaking?

7. What does Elliot consider inappropriate about the method his father uses to let him know that his adoptive mother Ginny has been placed on life support?

8. How does Odessa/Haikumom's reaction to John/Fountainhead's first post contrast with the reactions of the other regular forum members?

9. What is the significance of the Ghost breathing on Elliot at the end of Scene 6 and knocking him down?

10. What is ironic about Elliot's comment upon Ginny's death when he says that Odessa/Haikumom is shutting herself off from the world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the playwright's use of light as a motif within the play Water by the Spoonful. How is the motif used and what messages are sent through the scenes in which the motif appears? Back up your points with quotes from the play.

Essay Topic 2

What is the play's message regarding the nature of technology? Write a strong claim that states the play's message about technology and support your claim with concrete details from the play.

Essay Topic 3

What is the play's overall message concerning the inevitability of the past's hold on humans' current identities? Create a clear and specific claim stating the playwright's message and back up your points with carefully chosen scenes and quotes from the play.

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