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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Odessa doing during Ginny's funeral?
(a) Crying in the front pew at the church.
(b) Spooning water onto the floor of her living room.
(c) Standing at the back of the church, watching silently.
(d) Using crack cocaine in an alley downtown.

2. How does Orangutan figure out that someone else is posing as Haikumom online?
(a) The typist cannot produce a haiku poem when prompted.
(b) The typist does not misspell any words.
(c) The typist does not use any emoticons.
(d) The typist does not censor her when she swears.

3. When the audience sees Orangutan on a different stage during Ginny's funeral and she hears the final boarding call for her train to her birth city, what does she do?
(a) She squeezes through the train door.
(b) She runs away from the station.
(c) She purposely gets on the wrong train.
(d) She freezes.

4. In what city was Orangutan born?
(a) Osaka.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Kushiro.

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

6. What year is the car ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2005.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2010.

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

8. What literary device does Elliot declare to be present in Haikumom's choice of computer password once he figures it out?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Irony.

9. For what purpose do Yazmin and Elliot ask Haikumom to meet them at the flower shop at 9 a.m.?
(a) To tell her she is not invited to Ginny's funeral.
(b) To give her a ride to Ginny's funeral.
(c) To help choose the flowers for Ginny's funeral.
(d) To contribute to the flower deposit for Ginny's funeral.

10. What two artists are on the cassette tapes ChutesAndLadders offers for free to whomever buys his car?
(a) Lionel Richie and Tina Turner.
(b) Billy Ocean and Dionne Warwick.
(c) James Brown and John Coltrane.
(d) Billy Idol and Duran Duran.

11. Why does ChutesAndLadders place on hold the person who is expressing interest in buying his car?
(a) To consider whether he really wants to sell his car.
(b) To talk to a client on the other line.
(c) To make the person think that he is being flooded with calls about the car.
(d) To talk to Orangutan on the other line.

12. 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 tea kettle whistling.
(d) They hear her cell phone ringing when they call her.

13. What does ChutesAndLadders name as his two remaining ambitions in life?
(a) To not use drugs and to keep his job.
(b) To be happy and to help others.
(c) To not cry and to not whine.
(d) To not use drugs and to not hurt anyone.

14. 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?
(a) Public restrooms.
(b) Charging station.
(c) Parking meters.
(d) Payphones.

15. What event does ChutesAndLadders name as the event that once ended a 5-year stretch of sobriety in his life?
(a) Losing his job.
(b) Going to see his daughter.
(c) Burying his wife.
(d) Going to see his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does ChutesAndLadders tell Orangutan happened to him as a result of her three month absence from the Addiction Support forum?

2. When the split scene in Scene Twelve shows both Odessa's house and the Sapporo train platform, what is Orangutan doing?

3. What feature does Elliot say Ginny had used her carpentry skills to build on 47 different occasions?

4. What does ChutesAndLadders find inside the padded envelope he finds on his desk after he trashes his office due to an online argument with Orangutan?

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?

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