Water by the Spoonful Quiz

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What is the most likely reason that, at the end of the lecture, Yazmin says her first music lesson was only seven minutes long? (from Scene 3)

She left in anger when her teacher said she didn’t understand music.

That was the length of her time with the teacher who taught her about the true music in “dissonance”.

That was the length of time it took to play her composition for the teacher who taught her about dissonance.

She left in anger when her teacher said he hated her composition.

Ginny’s nurturing of plants in her garden can be seen as a parallel to what action by another character? (from Scene 5)

Haikumom’s nurturing of the visitors to her chatroom.

Yazmin’s nurturing of Orangutan.

Yazmin’s nurturing of her students.

Elliot’s nurturing of his father.

Which character’s experience of his / her true identity seems the furthest away from his/her condition at the end of the play, and why? (from Scene 15)

John’s, because he continues to be in denial about his addiction and refuses to acknowledge the need to help others in the same situation.

Elliot, because in the play’s final moments, he is still haunted by the memory / experience of the Ghost.

Odessa’s, because she has relapsed thoroughly into both her addiction and her guilt over the past.

Chutes, because he hasn’t found the courage to acknowledge that his addiction is preventing him from knowing himself.

Why is it significant that The Ghost (seen for the first time in Scene 3) is played by the same actor as played Professor Aman? (from Scene 3)

Aman, like The Ghost, is a manifestation of Elliot’s past.

Aman is a manifestation of Yazmin’s past in the same way as The Ghost is a manifestation of Elliot’s past.

Aman is Arab: having the same actor play him and The Ghost reinforces the importance of circumstance and situation to the quote.

Aman is a colleague of Yazmin’s: having the same actor play him and the Ghost reinforces the importance of Yazmin’s past to Elliot’s recollections.

What is the reason Orangutan gives for going to see the house where she was born? (from Scene 9)

She wants to please her adoptive parents, who made her promise to visit the place where she was born.

She promised herself that if she had ninety days free of drug use, she was going to go see the house.

She wants to anger her adoptive parents, who told her to never go back to the house.

She promised herself that if she had sixty days free of drug use, she was going to go see her house.