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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orangutan's comment to Fountainhead after he announces his relapse is that maybe he will make it to Day 30 of sobriety if he takes what action?
(a) Stays out of his dealer's neighborhood.
(b) Logs in to the Addiction Support forum every day.
(c) Tells his wife about his addiction.
(d) Goes to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.

2. What is NOT one thing that Organgutan says makes sense to her now that she is in Japan?
(a) Her own existence.
(b) The noodles in the soup.
(c) The woodpecker outside her window.
(d) The schoolgirls with their shy smiles.

3. What word does Haikumom type each time another member uses foul language on the forum?
(a) Delete.
(b) Foul.
(c) Stop.
(d) Censored.

4. How old is Orangutan?
(a) 28.
(b) 41.
(c) 39.
(d) 31.

5. What two weapons does Fountainhead say he plans to use in his fight against his addiction?
(a) Love for his son and willpower.
(b) Willpower and intense self-hatred.
(c) Willpower and lots of Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
(d) Willpower and the experts.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what California city does ChutesAndLadders hail?

2. Why does ChutesAndLadders look forward so much to the Tuesday crossword puzzle in the newspaper?

3. In HaikuMom's first online haiku poem of the play, what does she suggest people on the forum do when they get restless?

4. What is NOT one thing that Orangutan lists among the items that she buys with her paychecks from teaching?

5. How many drug overdoses had ChutesAndLadders experienced before his near-death experience on Coronado Beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clay/ChutesandLadders reveal as the catalyst for his decision to get sober?

2. What is ironic about Yazmin's purported hatred of public speaking?

3. How does Elliot try to lessen the pain caused by his wounded leg now that he no longer takes pain medication?

4. What do the stage directions say the actors should be doing while chatting online with one another?

5. What fact about Madeleine/Orangutan's identity is learned by Clay/ChutesandLadders, Odessa/Haikumom, and the audience all at once in Scene Two?

6. For what transgression against Ginny does Elliot feel the most guilty and why?

7. Explain the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's haiku that she posts on the Addiction Support forum in Scene Two.

8. Discuss the Ghost's role as a theatrical externalization within the play.

9. What does Elliot consider inappropriate about the method his father uses to let him know that his adoptive mother Ginny has been placed on life support?

10. What is the significance of the Arabic phrase that is stuck in Elliot's head?

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