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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 miles does the car have that ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?
2. What reason does ChutesAndLadders give for discouraging Orangutan from visiting her birth parents?
3. When Elliot poses as Haikumom online and Orangutan asks for a poem, what question does Elliot type instead?
4. What word does Orangutan use to describe ChutesAndLadders when he finally calls his son?
5. Who runs to Odessa's side and holds her once she is discovered?
Short Essay Questions
1. What simile does Odessa/Haikumom use to describe trying to stay clean when she states that the support forum helps her fill the hours?
2. After Elliot angrily tells the story of Mary Lou's death, what does Odessa/Haikumom do that foreshadows her coming relapse?
3. 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?
4. What is the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's whereabouts and actions during the time her sister Ginny's funeral is taking place across town?
5. What wrong assumption does John/Fountainhead make based on Odessa/Haikumom's appearance?
6. What kinds of qualities does the audience surmise about Ginny's character through hearing Elliot and Yaz deliver her eulogy?
7. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?
8. What does John/Fountainhead finally admit just before Elliot and Yazmin enter the diner?
9. 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?
10. How are the themes of hope and new beginnings portrayed in Scene Eleven when Clay/ChutesandLadders tries to sell his car on the phone?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Trace the character arc of Clay/ChutesandLadders from the beginning of the play's narrative to the end. Is he a dynamic character or a static one and what message is the playwright sending through his character arc within the play? Support your points with concrete details from the narrative.
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