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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. How many days of sobriety does Orangutan announce she has when she comes back online after a long absence?
(a) 32.
(b) 91.
(c) 2.
(d) 40.

2. 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) Tells his wife about his addiction.
(c) Logs in to the Addiction Support forum every day.
(d) Goes to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.

3. When Yazmin cancels her students' next listening report, what does she assign them to do instead?
(a) Write about the first time they noticed dissonance.
(b) Write about the first time they noticed synergy.
(c) Write about the first time they noticed consonance.
(d) Write about the first time they noticed syncopation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do Orangutan, ChutesAndLadders, and HaikuMom toast after ChutesAndLadders' story about his brush with death on Coronado Beach?

2. What two weapons does Fountainhead say he plans to use in his fight against his addiction?

3. In her thirteenth year, Yazmin's music teacher listened to one of her compositions and called it pretty. What simile did he use to characterize her piece of music?

4. What is the relationship between Yazmin and Elliot?

5. In his first post on the addiction support forum, Fountainhead says that doing crack now feels less like getting high and more like doing what other activity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new information does the audience learn about John/Fountainhead within Scene 6 during his second appearance on the Addiction Support forum?

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

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

4. How does Odessa/Haikumom handle her job as site administrator and what are her duties?

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

6. How does Odessa/Haikumom's reaction to John/Fountainhead's first post contrast with the reactions of the other regular forum members?

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

8. What behaviors of Ginny's near the end of her life are upsetting Elliot so much that he enlists Yazmin's help?

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

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

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