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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) He has been using crack cocaine every day for 5 years straight.
(b) He uses crack cocaine at least 3 times a week.
(c) He has only used crack cocaine once in his life.
(d) He has been using crack cocaine every day for 700 days straight.

3. When Orangutan reports her research findings to ChutesAndLadders while she waits at the Sapporo train station, what government goal does she give for the project's implementation?
(a) To improve urban aesthetics.
(b) To please the emperor.
(c) To improve citizens' views.
(d) To create jobs.

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?
(a) A pair of waterwings.
(b) A gram of crack cocaine.
(c) A framed photograph of his grandchildren.
(d) A spoon.

5. What is Haikumom's real name?
(a) Janice.
(b) Odessa.
(c) Yazmin.
(d) Ginny.

6. Who shines a flashlight onto Orangutan and offers her his assistance?
(a) A passing businessman.
(b) A train conductor.
(c) Chutes and Ladders.
(d) A policeman.

7. When the split scene in Scene Twelve shows both Odessa's house and the Sapporo train platform, what is Orangutan doing?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Boarding a train.
(c) Chatting online with Chutes and Ladders.
(d) Reading.

8. What school does Yazmin name as the school Ginny always told her she would be attending someday, even though Yazmin was still a little girl at the time?
(a) New York University.
(b) Berklee School of Music.
(c) Juilliard.
(d) Harvard.

9. 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 freezes.
(b) She purposely gets on the wrong train.
(c) She squeezes through the train door.
(d) She runs away from the station.

10. How many biological children did Ginny give birth to in her lifetime?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

11. What happens immediately after Yazmin and Odessa look up and see a brilliant light above them?
(a) Elliot lies down.
(b) Odessa slips into Yazmin's arms.
(c) Odessa screams.
(d) Odessa disappears.

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

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

14. 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 hear her tea kettle whistling.
(c) They hear her cell phone ringing when they call her.
(d) They see on their phones that she is posting online in the Addiction Support forum.

15. When Odessa's unconscious mind is speaking her thoughts onstage during her overdose, how many times does she say she has ever been to an airport?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two artists are on the cassette tapes ChutesAndLadders offers for free to whomever buys his car?

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

3. How many godchildren did Ginny have at the time of her death?

4. 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?

5. What are the final three words of Ginny's eulogy?

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