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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. Who runs to Odessa's side and holds her once she is discovered?
2. What is Haikumom's real name?
3. At what point does ChutesAndLadders hang up once his son answers his father's first call in many years?
4. What is the name of Chutes and Ladders's son, whom he has not seen in a long time?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of Clay/ChutesandLadders's appeal to John/Fountainhead to take some action in relation to caring for Odessa/Haikumom?
2. What kinds of qualities does the audience surmise about Ginny's character through hearing Elliot and Yaz deliver her eulogy?
3. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?
4. After Elliot angrily tells the story of Mary Lou's death, what does Odessa/Haikumom do that foreshadows her coming relapse?
5. What is the significance of the water wings' presence on Clay/ChutesandLadders's desk?
6. What simile does Odessa/Haikumom use to describe trying to stay clean when she states that the support forum helps her fill the hours?
7. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?
8. How does Odessa/Haikumom respond to John/Fountainhead's admission that he had minimized the depth of his addiction in his first post on the forum?
9. What is the playwright's purpose in having three different scenes play out at the same time in Scene Eleven?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the play's overall message concerning the inevitability of the past's hold on humans' current identities? Create a clear and specific claim stating the playwright's message and back up your points with carefully chosen scenes and quotes from the play.
Essay Topic 2
What is the play's message regarding bravery? How do the events and characters define bravery and what is the play's ultimate message about those definitions? Use concrete details to support your claim about the play's message regarding bravery.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the playwright's use of light as a motif within the play Water by the Spoonful. How is the motif used and what messages are sent through the scenes in which the motif appears? Back up your points with quotes from the play.
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