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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. When Elliot poses as Haikumom online and Orangutan asks for a poem, what question does Elliot type instead?
(a) What does crack feel like?
(b) Who do you think you are?
(c) Who are you?
(d) What kind of poem do you want?

2. What was the name of Elliot's two-year-old little sister who died as a result of her mother not giving her a spoonful of water every hour when she had influenza?
(a) Mary Margaret.
(b) Mary Jane.
(c) Mary Jo.
(d) Mary Lou.

3. 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) Berklee School of Music.
(b) Juilliard.
(c) Harvard.
(d) New York University.

4. How much below Blue Book value does ChutesAndLadders say he is asking for his car?
(a) $500 below.
(b) $250 below.
(c) $300 below.
(d) $1,000 below.

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?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What travel-related location does Odessa's unconscious mind think she finds herself during her drug overdose?

2. When the split scene in Scene Twelve shows both Odessa's house and the Sapporo train platform, what is Orangutan doing?

3. How much does Yazmin guess that she and Elliot will get for Haikumom's computer at the pawnshop?

4. 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?

5. How many miles does the car have that ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What simile does Odessa/Haikumom use to describe trying to stay clean when she states that the support forum helps her fill the hours?

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

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

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