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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ginny use to cook her eggs that upsets Elliot?

2. What chore does Elliot confess to neglecting throughout his time with Ginny during her illness?

3. What screen name does the administrator of the addiction support forum use?

4. How many years of sobriety does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan that he has?

5. In her thirteenth year, Yazmin's music teacher listened to one of her compositions and called it pretty. What simile did he use to characterize her piece of music?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Clay/ChutesandLadders's and Madeleine/Orangutan's reactions to John/Fountainhead's first post on the Addiction Support forum?

2. What is ironic about Elliot's comment upon Ginny's death when he says that Odessa/Haikumom is shutting herself off from the world?

3. How does Odessa/Haikumom handle her job as site administrator and what are her duties?

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

5. How does Elliot try to lessen the pain caused by his wounded leg now that he no longer takes pain medication?

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

7. What behaviors of Ginny's near the end of her life are upsetting Elliot so much that he enlists Yazmin's help?

8. For what transgression against Ginny does Elliot feel the most guilty and why?

9. Discuss the Ghost's role as a theatrical externalization within the play.

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the play's treatment of class and privilege. Consider the socioeconomic status of a variety of different characters and analyze the playwright's ultimate message regarding class and privilege. Use quotes from the play to support your points.

Essay Topic 2

How does the existence of two co-protagonists in the characters of Elliot and Yazmin mesh with the play's overall themes and messages? Create a clear and specific claim that states the playwright's purpose in presenting the audience with two protagonists, rather than just one. Use concrete details from the play to support your claim.

Essay Topic 3

Study the final scene of the play, Scene 15, and use it to determine the playwright's main message to the audience. What does she want the audience to realize by the end of that scene and how does she get that message across in a clear yet symbolic fashion? Use concrete details from the final scene and from elsewhere in the play in order to support your claim.

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