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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Elliot and Yazmin gain entry to Odessa's house after Ginny's funeral?
(a) Elliot finds the spare key in a flowerpot.
(b) Yazmin kicks the door in.
(c) The landlord lets them in.
(d) Elliot kicks the door in.

2. What is Fountainhead's real name?
(a) Junior.
(b) John.
(c) Jack.
(d) Jake.

3. When Elliot is too emotionally overcome to continue speaking, who delivers the rest of his line for him at the end of the scene at Ginny's funeral?
(a) John.
(b) Yazmin.
(c) Odessa.
(d) Fountainhead.

4. What do Yazmin and Elliot see when they turn on the lights inside Odessa's house?
(a) A group of people whom they have never seen.
(b) Odessa in a heap on the floor.
(c) An empty living room in disarray.
(d) A single chrysanthemum lying in the doorway.

5. What word does Orangutan use to describe ChutesAndLadders when he finally calls his son?
(a) Ingenious.
(b) Brave.
(c) Foolhardy.
(d) Naive.

6. When Orangutan chats online with ChutesAndLadders from the Sapporo train station, what subject does she tell him she has just researched?
(a) The construction of the giant hydroelectric dam in Hokkaido.
(b) The construction of the Sapporo train station.
(c) The flattening of all hills in Hokkaido.
(d) The straightening of all rivers in Hokkaido.

7. How does ChutesAndLadders describe the color of the car he is trying to sell?
(a) Sky blue.
(b) Cherry red.
(c) Midnight blue.
(d) Chartreuse.

8. When Orangutan reveals online that Elliot has struggled with pain medication addiction in the past, how many times does she say he had been hospitalized due to drug overdoses?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

9. What reason does ChutesAndLadders give for discouraging Orangutan from visiting her birth parents?
(a) He is jealous of the bonds that she may form with them if she meets them.
(b) He believes it could jeopardize her recovery.
(c) He fears they will want her to stay in Japan.
(d) He knows that the city of her birth is a dangerous place.

10. What does Orangutan use as a pillow while spending the night on the train platform in Sapporo?
(a) Her backpack.
(b) Her souvenir kimono.
(c) A trash can lid.
(d) Her sweatshirt.

11. When Yazmin is trying to talk to Elliot about his past drug issues, he tries to walk away from the conversation. What causes him to ultimately stay?
(a) Elliot has a vision of Ginny's face.
(b) Yazmin threatens to tell Elliot's buddies from the neighborhood.
(c) Yazmin begins to cry.
(d) The ghost blocks his path.

12. At what point does ChutesAndLadders hang up once his son answers his father's first call in many years?
(a) When his son asks him for money.
(b) When his son tells ChutesAndLadders that he hates him.
(c) When his son's wife gets on the phone.
(d) When his son says hello.

13. Whom does Elliot tell Yazmin to call after she hangs up with the 911 operator?
(a) Elliot's dad.
(b) Elliot's mom.
(c) Yazmin's mom.
(d) A Buddhist monk.

14. What metaphor does ChutesAndLadders use to describe what may happen to Orangutan's heart if she does meet her birth parents?
(a) A reflective mirror.
(b) A shattered lightbulb.
(c) A car crash.
(d) A beautiful mosaic.

15. When Odessa does not answer her door, how do Elliot and Yazmin know that she is in her house?
(a) They hear her shouting.
(b) They see on their phones that she is posting online in the Addiction Support forum.
(c) They hear her cell phone ringing when they call her.
(d) They hear her tea kettle whistling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles does the car have that ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?

2. What does Haikumom ask Fountainhead about his first crack cocaine dealer that prompts him to say he has to leave?

3. What is Haikumom's password for her computer?

4. For what purpose do Yazmin and Elliot ask Haikumom to meet them at the flower shop at 9 a.m.?

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?

(see the answer keys)

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