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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the final three words of Ginny's eulogy?
(a) She was loved.
(b) She was ours.
(c) She gave love.
(d) She was here.

2. When Orangutan reports her research findings to ChutesAndLadders while she waits at the Sapporo train station, what government goal does she give for the project's implementation?
(a) To please the emperor.
(b) To improve citizens' views.
(c) To create jobs.
(d) To improve urban aesthetics.

3. For what purpose do Yazmin and Elliot ask Haikumom to meet them at the flower shop at 9 a.m.?
(a) To contribute to the flower deposit for Ginny's funeral.
(b) To tell her she is not invited to Ginny's funeral.
(c) To give her a ride to Ginny's funeral.
(d) To help choose the flowers for Ginny's funeral.

4. What does ChutesAndLadders find inside the padded envelope he finds on his desk after he trashes his office due to an online argument with Orangutan?
(a) A pair of waterwings.
(b) A spoon.
(c) A gram of crack cocaine.
(d) A framed photograph of his grandchildren.

5. Who runs to Odessa's side and holds her once she is discovered?
(a) The paramedics.
(b) Fountainhead.
(c) Yazmin.
(d) Elliot.

6. Who shines a flashlight onto Orangutan and offers her his assistance?
(a) A train conductor.
(b) Chutes and Ladders.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A passing businessman.

7. What feature of his car does ChutesAndLadders mention last as a way to tempt the prospective buyer who is on the phone?
(a) Air conditioning.
(b) GPS.
(c) Racing stripes.
(d) Dual exhaust.

8. When Elliot poses as Haikumom online and Orangutan asks for a poem, what question does Elliot type instead?
(a) What does crack feel like?
(b) What kind of poem do you want?
(c) Who are you?
(d) Who do you think you are?

9. When the audience sees Orangutan on a different stage during Ginny's funeral and she hears the final boarding call for her train to her birth city, what does she do?
(a) She runs away from the station.
(b) She squeezes through the train door.
(c) She purposely gets on the wrong train.
(d) She freezes.

10. What is Fountainhead's real name?
(a) Junior.
(b) Jack.
(c) John.
(d) Jake.

11. What school does Yazmin name as the school Ginny always told her she would be attending someday, even though Yazmin was still a little girl at the time?
(a) Juilliard.
(b) Berklee School of Music.
(c) Harvard.
(d) New York University.

12. When Haikumom admits that she still craves crack cocaine, how often does she say she craves it on a good day?
(a) Every hour.
(b) Once per day.
(c) At breakfast time, at lunch time, and at dinner time.
(d) Every minute.

13. What is Haikumom's job?
(a) Waitress.
(b) Engineer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Custodian.

14. When Elliot is too emotionally overcome to continue speaking, who delivers the rest of his line for him at the end of the scene at Ginny's funeral?
(a) Odessa.
(b) John.
(c) Fountainhead.
(d) Yazmin.

15. What happens immediately after Yazmin and Odessa look up and see a brilliant light above them?
(a) Odessa slips into Yazmin's arms.
(b) Odessa disappears.
(c) Odessa screams.
(d) Elliot lies down.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many months does Elliot reveal to Yazmin that his struggle with a severe addiction to pain medication lasted?

2. How many biological children did Ginny give birth to in her lifetime?

3. At what point does ChutesAndLadders hang up once his son answers his father's first call in many years?

4. When the split scene in Scene Twelve shows both Odessa's house and the Sapporo train platform, what is Orangutan doing?

5. How many arrests for civil disobedience did Ginny have on her record during her lifetime?

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