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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. What screen name does the administrator of the addiction support forum use?
(a) Fountainhead.
(b) Orangutan.
(c) HaikuMom.
(d) Chutes&Ladders.

2. How long does Orangutan stay away from the addiction support forum when it causes HaikuMom and ChutesAndLadders to worry about her?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 33 days.

3. In what country was Orangutan born?
(a) China.
(b) Japan.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Thailand.

4. What metaphor does Orangutan use to describe her feelings about her own identity whilst in Sapporo?
(a) A star within the galaxy.
(b) A baby in a basket on an endless river.
(c) A fern among the redwoods.
(d) A single flake of snow in an avalanche.

5. Whom does Yazmin ask Elliot to dissuade from coming to Ginny's funeral?
(a) Odessa.
(b) Orangutan.
(c) William.
(d) Professor Aman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years of sobriety does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan that he has?

3. What does Elliot's memorized Arabic phrase turn out to mean in English?

4. What is the one thing in life that frightens ChutesAndLadders more than the ocean?

5. What is NOT one thing that Organgutan says makes sense to her now that she is in Japan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John/Fountainhead differ from all of the other characters in the play?

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

3. How does the audience learn of Elliot's volatile temper within Scene Three when he learns that his mother Ginny is on life support?

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

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

6. What is ironic about Elliot's comment upon Ginny's death when he says that Odessa/Haikumom is shutting herself off from the world?

7. What does Yazmin say is the reason for her divorce from William and how does that reason reflect a theme of the play?

8. What is the significance of the Ghost breathing on Elliot at the end of Scene 6 and knocking him down?

9. In return for agreeing to deliver Ginny's eulogy, what does Yazmin ask Elliot to do for her?

10. What are Clay/ChutesandLadders's and Madeleine/Orangutan's reactions to John/Fountainhead's first post on the Addiction Support forum?

(see the answer keys)

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