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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 does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan happened to him as a result of her three month absence from the Addiction Support forum?
(a) He lost the courage to call his son.
(b) He could not sleep for three months.
(c) He lost his will to live.
(d) He relapsed.

2. What are the final three words of Ginny's eulogy?
(a) She was here.
(b) She was ours.
(c) She gave love.
(d) She was loved.

3. When Haikumom admits that she still craves crack cocaine, how often does she say she craves it on a good day?
(a) Every minute.
(b) At breakfast time, at lunch time, and at dinner time.
(c) Once per day.
(d) Every hour.

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

5. Where did Fountainhead and his wife spend their honeymoon when they were first married?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) The Virgin Islands.

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 the audience sees Orangutan on a different stage during Ginny's funeral and she hears the final boarding call for her train to her birth city, what does she do?

4. What year is the car ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?

5. Who shines a flashlight onto Orangutan and offers her his assistance?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Odessa/Haikumom say to John/Fountainhead that causes him to say, "Fuck you" (62) and to start to leave the diner?

3. How does Scene Eleven display characteristics of the plot arc phase of rising action?

4. 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?

5. What does the light represent within Scene Twelve when Madeleine/Orangutan is awakened on the train platform by the policeman's flashlight and Yazmin sees a light above Odessa/Haikumom?

6. What is the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's choice to list John/Fountainhead as her emergency contact?

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

8. What kinds of qualities does the audience surmise about Ginny's character through hearing Elliot and Yaz deliver her eulogy?

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

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

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