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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 reason does Yazmin give for refusing to act in the role Elliot wants her to play in Ginny's funeral?

2. What illness does Ginny have?

3. What activity does ChutesAndLadders say that he and Orangutan engaged in all night the first time they met online?

4. Where do Yazmin and Elliot plan to travel after Ginny's funeral to spread her ashes?

5. Which Jazz artist is the subject of Yazmin's lecture when she receives the emergency text from Elliot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Yazmin say is the reason for her divorce from William and how does that reason reflect a theme of the play?

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

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

5. How does the audience learn of Elliot's volatile temper within Scene Three when he learns that his mother Ginny is on life support?

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

7. What new information does the audience learn about John/Fountainhead within Scene 6 during his second appearance on the Addiction Support forum?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the significance of the Ghost in the play. What is the playwright's purpose in including the Ghost and how does the Ghost's presence reflect particular themes put forth by the play as a whole? Choose specific quotes from both the dialogue and the stage directions in order to support your claim.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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