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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. How many biological children did Ginny give birth to in her lifetime?
2. When Orangutan is at the Sapporo train station and is chatting online with ChutesAndLadders, what objects in America does she liken to internet cafes in Japan in terms of how ubiquitous they are?
3. When Odessa does not answer her door, how do Elliot and Yazmin know that she is in her house?
4. What make and model is the car that ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?
5. What literary device does Elliot declare to be present in Haikumom's choice of computer password once he figures it out?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the playwright's purpose in having three different scenes play out at the same time in Scene Eleven?
3. 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?
4. What does Odessa/Haikumom say to John/Fountainhead that causes him to say, "Fuck you" (62) and to start to leave the diner?
5. Why does John/Fountainhead lie about how he knows Odessa/Haikumom when meeting Elliot and Yazmin?
6. What does John/Fountainhead finally admit just before Elliot and Yazmin enter the diner?
7. What simile does Odessa/Haikumom use to describe trying to stay clean when she states that the support forum helps her fill the hours?
8. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?
9. What subject does John/Fountainhead try to avoid by making small talk about Puerto Rico?
10. What is the significance of the water wings' presence on Clay/ChutesandLadders's desk?
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 the nature of technology? Write a strong claim that states the play's message about technology and support your claim with concrete details from the play.
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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