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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 does Orangutan figure out that someone else is posing as Haikumom online?
(a) The typist does not censor her when she swears.
(b) The typist does not use any emoticons.
(c) The typist cannot produce a haiku poem when prompted.
(d) The typist does not misspell any words.

2. When Orangutan chats online with ChutesAndLadders from the Sapporo train station, what subject does she tell him she has just researched?
(a) The straightening of all rivers in Hokkaido.
(b) The flattening of all hills in Hokkaido.
(c) The construction of the Sapporo train station.
(d) The construction of the giant hydroelectric dam in Hokkaido.

3. Who runs to Odessa's side and holds her once she is discovered?
(a) Fountainhead.
(b) Yazmin.
(c) The paramedics.
(d) Elliot.

4. What word does Orangutan use to describe ChutesAndLadders when he finally calls his son?
(a) Brave.
(b) Ingenious.
(c) Foolhardy.
(d) Naive.

5. What school does Yazmin name as the school Ginny always told her she would be attending someday, even though Yazmin was still a little girl at the time?
(a) New York University.
(b) Berklee School of Music.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Juilliard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Haikumom ask Fountainhead about his first crack cocaine dealer that prompts him to say he has to leave?

2. What does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan happened to him as a result of her three month absence from the Addiction Support forum?

3. What is Odessa doing during Ginny's funeral?

4. What metaphor does ChutesAndLadders use to describe what may happen to Orangutan's heart if she does meet her birth parents?

5. What religious upbringing have Fountainhead and Haikumom both experienced, though they do not practice that religion as adults?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's whereabouts and actions during the time her sister Ginny's funeral is taking place across town?

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

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

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

5. What is significant about Odessa/Haikumom's question to John/Fountainhead about whether his original crack dealer had been male or female?

6. How does Odessa/Haikumom respond to John/Fountainhead's admission that he had minimized the depth of his addiction in his first post on the forum?

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

8. What is the playwright's purpose in having three different scenes play out at the same time in Scene Eleven?

9. What are the main tenets of Odessa/Haikumom's advice to John/Fountainhead when they meet for the first time in person at the diner?

10. How does the play's theme of the relationship between past and present play out in Scene Ten when three different events happen onstage simultaneously?

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