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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 action leads to Orangutan's parents' purchase of a one-way flight for her to visit Japan?
(a) They move to a smaller house and do not have room for her anymore.
(b) Orangutan's mother gets a job with an airline and can now secure half-price fare.
(c) They speak to a psychologist who advises that they help Orangutan travel to new places.
(d) They read everything she has ever posted on the addiction support forum.

2. What is the relationship between Yazmin and Elliot?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are friends.
(c) Yazmin is Elliot's aunt.
(d) They are brother and sister.

3. What chore does Elliot confess to neglecting throughout his time with Ginny during her illness?
(a) Changing the bed linens.
(b) Watering the garden.
(c) Cleaning the kitchen.
(d) Scouring the tub.

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

5. At what college does Yazmin teach?
(a) Northwestern.
(b) Dartmouth.
(c) Swarthmore.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the things ChutesAndLadders mentions on his tirade against Fountainhead during Fountainhead's first log-in to the addiction support forum?

3. In what language is Elliot's most recent commercial broadcast upon its release?

4. What adjective does Haikumom use to describe Fountainhead's first post on the addiction support forum?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the subject of Yazmin's lecture to her music theory class?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What label does Clay/ChutesandLadders insist that John/Fountainhead apply to himself and why does he insist on this admission?

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