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

2. When Orangutan is at the Sapporo train station and is chatting online with ChutesAndLadders, what objects in America does she liken to internet cafes in Japan in terms of how ubiquitous they are?
(a) Public restrooms.
(b) Charging station.
(c) Parking meters.
(d) Payphones.

3. What happens immediately after Yazmin and Odessa look up and see a brilliant light above them?
(a) Odessa screams.
(b) Elliot lies down.
(c) Odessa disappears.
(d) Odessa slips into Yazmin's arms.

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

5. What travel-related location does Odessa's unconscious mind think she finds herself during her drug overdose?
(a) A cruise ship boarding plank.
(b) A bus terminal.
(c) A train station.
(d) An airline terminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 911 operator tell Yazmin when she asks what do while she and Elliot wait for the ambulance to arrive?

2. What does ChutesAndLadders name as his two remaining ambitions in life?

3. When Orangutan reveals online that Elliot has struggled with pain medication addiction in the past, how many times does she say he had been hospitalized due to drug overdoses?

4. When Haikumom admits that she still craves crack cocaine, how often does she say she craves it on a good day?

5. When Odessa's unconscious mind is speaking her thoughts onstage during her overdose, how many times does she say she has ever been to an airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does John/Fountainhead lie about how he knows Odessa/Haikumom when meeting Elliot and Yazmin?

2. How are the themes of hope and new beginnings portrayed in Scene Eleven when Clay/ChutesandLadders tries to sell his car on the phone?

3. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?

4. What wrong assumption does John/Fountainhead make based on Odessa/Haikumom's appearance?

5. What is the significance of the water wings' presence on Clay/ChutesandLadders's desk?

6. How is the importance of human connection highlighted in Scene Thirteen when Clay/ChutesandLadders plans to meet Madeleine/Orangutan in Japan and John/Fountainhead reaches out to the other members of the Addiction Support forum from the hospital?

7. What do Odessa/Haikumom and John/Fountainhead find that they have in common when they first meet at the diner in person?

8. After Elliot angrily tells the story of Mary Lou's death, what does Odessa/Haikumom do that foreshadows her coming relapse?

9. What does John/Fountainhead finally admit just before Elliot and Yazmin enter the diner?

10. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?

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