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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does ChutesAndLadders place on hold the person who is expressing interest in buying his car?
(a) To talk to Orangutan on the other line.
(b) To talk to a client on the other line.
(c) To make the person think that he is being flooded with calls about the car.
(d) To consider whether he really wants to sell his car.

5. How much below Blue Book value does ChutesAndLadders say he is asking for his car?
(a) $1,000 below.
(b) $500 below.
(c) $300 below.
(d) $250 below.

6. 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) Fountainhead.
(c) Yazmin.
(d) John.

7. What is Haikumom's real name?
(a) Ginny.
(b) Janice.
(c) Yazmin.
(d) Odessa.

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

9. What religious upbringing have Fountainhead and Haikumom both experienced, though they do not practice that religion as adults?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Lutheranism.
(c) Shintoism.
(d) Buddhism.

10. What literary device does Elliot declare to be present in Haikumom's choice of computer password once he figures it out?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Irony.

11. What travel-related location does Odessa's unconscious mind think she finds herself during her drug overdose?
(a) An airline terminal.
(b) A train station.
(c) A cruise ship boarding plank.
(d) A bus terminal.

12. Why does Fountainhead assume that Haikumom has been to Puerto Rico?
(a) Because he sees that she is Puerto Rican when they meet in person.
(b) Because she has a keychain with a map of Puerto Rico on it.
(c) Because she always talks about Puerto Rico.
(d) Because he himself has been there many times on vacation, so he assumes others have as well.

13. How does Orangutan figure out that someone else is posing as Haikumom online?
(a) The typist does not use any emoticons.
(b) The typist cannot produce a haiku poem when prompted.
(c) The typist does not censor her when she swears.
(d) The typist does not misspell any words.

14. What word does Orangutan use to describe ChutesAndLadders when he finally calls his son?
(a) Foolhardy.
(b) Brave.
(c) Naive.
(d) Ingenious.

15. 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 framed photograph of his grandchildren.
(c) A gram of crack cocaine.
(d) A spoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Haikumom recommends 3 rehabilitation facilities to Fountainhead, what two criteria do they all share?

2. Who runs to Odessa's side and holds her once she is discovered?

3. What does ChutesAndLadders name as his two remaining ambitions in life?

4. When Orangutan reveals online that Elliot has struggled with pain medication addiction in the past, how many times does she say he had been hospitalized due to drug overdoses?

5. When Haikumom admits that she still craves crack cocaine, how often does she say she craves it on a good day?

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