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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is the car ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?
(a) 2005.
(b) 1995.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2015.

2. What does ChutesAndLadders name as his two remaining ambitions in life?
(a) To not use drugs and to not hurt anyone.
(b) To not use drugs and to keep his job.
(c) To not cry and to not whine.
(d) To be happy and to help others.

3. In what city was Orangutan born?
(a) Kushiro.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Osaka.
(d) Baltimore.

4. What does ChutesAndLadders plan to do with the proceeds from the sale of his car?
(a) He plans to put a down payment on a brand new car.
(b) He plans to buy a plane ticket to Japan.
(c) He plans to pay his overdue rent.
(d) He plans to buy a train ticket to go see his son.

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

6. What metaphor does ChutesAndLadders use to describe what may happen to Orangutan's heart if she does meet her birth parents?
(a) A reflective mirror.
(b) A beautiful mosaic.
(c) A car crash.
(d) A shattered lightbulb.

7. 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 help choose the flowers for Ginny's funeral.
(c) To tell her she is not invited to Ginny's funeral.
(d) To give her a ride to Ginny's funeral.

8. What two artists are on the cassette tapes ChutesAndLadders offers for free to whomever buys his car?
(a) James Brown and John Coltrane.
(b) Billy Idol and Duran Duran.
(c) Billy Ocean and Dionne Warwick.
(d) Lionel Richie and Tina Turner.

9. How many biological children did Ginny give birth to in her lifetime?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

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

11. When the split scene in Scene Twelve shows both Odessa's house and the Sapporo train platform, what is Orangutan doing?
(a) Reading.
(b) Chatting online with Chutes and Ladders.
(c) Boarding a train.
(d) Sleeping.

12. What feature does Elliot say Ginny had used her carpentry skills to build on 47 different occasions?
(a) Beds at homeless shelters.
(b) Wheelchair ramps.
(c) Swing sets at domestic violence shelters.
(d) Skateboard ramps.

13. Whom does Elliot tell Yazmin to call after she hangs up with the 911 operator?
(a) Elliot's dad.
(b) A Buddhist monk.
(c) Yazmin's mom.
(d) Elliot's mom.

14. What action does Orangutan vow to take if she stays sober for three months?
(a) To throw herself a big party.
(b) To enroll in nursing school.
(c) To buy herself a new car.
(d) To find her birth parents.

15. 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) At breakfast time, at lunch time, and at dinner time.
(c) Every minute.
(d) Once per day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does ChutesAndLadders give for discouraging Orangutan from visiting her birth parents?

2. What is the name of Chutes and Ladders's son, whom he has not seen in a long time?

3. How much does Yazmin guess that she and Elliot will get for Haikumom's computer at the pawnshop?

4. 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?

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

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