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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the address of Odessa's house?
(a) 33 Quebec Street.
(b) 33 Manitoba Street.
(c) 33 Ontario Street.
(d) 33 Newfoundland Street.

2. What is Odessa doing during Ginny's funeral?
(a) Spooning water onto the floor of her living room.
(b) Using crack cocaine in an alley downtown.
(c) Standing at the back of the church, watching silently.
(d) Crying in the front pew at the church.

3. Where did Fountainhead and his wife spend their honeymoon when they were first married?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) The Virgin Islands.

4. What is NOT one of the roles Elliot lists when he names Ginny's roles in life?
(a) Comedian.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Engineer.

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

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

7. What does the 911 operator tell Yazmin when she asks what do while she and Elliot wait for the ambulance to arrive?
(a) She tells her to elevate Odessa's feet.
(b) She tells her to give Odessa some water.
(c) She tells her to put a cold compress on Odessa's forehead.
(d) She tells her to keep Odessa warm.

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

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

10. When Orangutan chats online with ChutesAndLadders from the Sapporo train station, what subject does she tell him she has just researched?
(a) The flattening of all hills in Hokkaido.
(b) The straightening of all rivers in Hokkaido.
(c) The construction of the giant hydroelectric dam in Hokkaido.
(d) The construction of the Sapporo train station.

11. 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 framed photograph of his grandchildren.
(b) A gram of crack cocaine.
(c) A pair of waterwings.
(d) A spoon.

12. How does ChutesAndLadders describe the color of the car he is trying to sell?
(a) Midnight blue.
(b) Cherry red.
(c) Chartreuse.
(d) Sky blue.

13. 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 purposely gets on the wrong train.
(b) She freezes.
(c) She runs away from the station.
(d) She squeezes through the train door.

14. What is the name of Chutes and Ladders's son, whom he has not seen in a long time?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Wendell.
(c) Spencer.
(d) Bernardo.

15. What event does ChutesAndLadders name as the event that once ended a 5-year stretch of sobriety in his life?
(a) Going to see his son.
(b) Burying his wife.
(c) Going to see his daughter.
(d) Losing his job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Fountainhead had said in his first post on the Addiction Support forum that he only smokes crack cocaine once per week, what is the truth he reveals to Haikumom when they meet in person?

2. What feature does Elliot say Ginny had used her carpentry skills to build on 47 different occasions?

3. What action does Orangutan vow to take if she stays sober for three months?

4. Who shines a flashlight onto Orangutan and offers her his assistance?

5. What travel-related location does Odessa's unconscious mind think she finds herself during her drug overdose?

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