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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 Elliot do with the eggs when Ginny goes to the bathroom?

2. How long has it been since ChutesAndLadders has spoken to his son?

3. How many other Asians had Orangutan seen in person before traveling to Japan?

4. In what country was Orangutan born?

5. What adjective does Haikumom use to describe Fountainhead's first post on the addiction support forum?

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

3. In return for agreeing to deliver Ginny's eulogy, what does Yazmin ask Elliot to do for her?

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

5. What is the subject of Yazmin's lecture to her music theory class?

6. What is the reason for Clay/ChutesandLadders' surprise at Madeleine/Orangutan's appearance in the Addiction Support forum in Scene Two?

7. How does John/Fountainhead differ from all of the other characters in the play?

8. What is ironic about Yazmin's purported hatred of public speaking?

9. What label does Clay/ChutesandLadders insist that John/Fountainhead apply to himself and why does he insist on this admission?

10. What does Clay/ChutesandLadders reveal as the catalyst for his decision to get sober?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What message does the play send to the audience about the nature and defintion of family? Create a specific, arguable, and clear claim stating the play's message concerning the nature and definition of family and use concrete details to back up your claim.

Essay Topic 2

Study the overall structure of the play, examining how the two separate stories are interwoven by the playwright and how the structure of that interweaving changes over the course of the play. What effect does the structure of play ultimately have on its meaning? Be sure to support your analysis of the play's structure using concrete details from the text.

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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