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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. For what purpose do Yazmin and Elliot ask Haikumom to meet them at the flower shop at 9 a.m.?
2. When Haikumom recommends 3 rehabilitation facilities to Fountainhead, what two criteria do they all share?
3. What does Orangutan use as a pillow while spending the night on the train platform in Sapporo?
4. How much below Blue Book value does ChutesAndLadders say he is asking for his car?
5. Though Fountainhead had said in his first post on the Addiction Support forum that he only smokes crack cocaine once per week, what is the truth he reveals to Haikumom when they meet in person?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the playwright's purpose in having three different scenes play out at the same time in Scene Eleven?
2. What is significant about Odessa/Haikumom's question to John/Fountainhead about whether his original crack dealer had been male or female?
3. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?
4. What kinds of qualities does the audience surmise about Ginny's character through hearing Elliot and Yaz deliver her eulogy?
5. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?
6. 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?
7. How is the importance of human connection highlighted in Scene Thirteen when Clay/ChutesandLadders plans to meet Madeleine/Orangutan in Japan and John/Fountainhead reaches out to the other members of the Addiction Support forum from the hospital?
8. How does Scene Eleven display characteristics of the plot arc phase of rising action?
9. What wrong assumption does John/Fountainhead make based on Odessa/Haikumom's appearance?
10. What subject does John/Fountainhead try to avoid by making small talk about Puerto Rico?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the function of John/Fountainhead's character within the play? What themes does his character help to highlight and how do his character traits help shape the play's message? Support your claims with concrete examples and quotes from the play's narrative.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the playwright's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within Water by the Spoonful. Be sure to use particular characters and their situations to arrive at a specific and clear claim about the playwright's treatment of these topics. Use quotes from the play to support your claim.
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