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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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) Yazmin begins to cry.
(b) Elliot has a vision of Ginny's face.
(c) The ghost blocks his path.
(d) Yazmin threatens to tell Elliot's buddies from the neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Yazmin guess that she and Elliot will get for Haikumom's computer at the pawnshop?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Clay/ChutesandLadders's appeal to John/Fountainhead to take some action in relation to caring for Odessa/Haikumom?

2. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?

3. After Elliot angrily tells the story of Mary Lou's death, what does Odessa/Haikumom do that foreshadows her coming relapse?

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. 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?

6. Why does John/Fountainhead lie about how he knows Odessa/Haikumom when meeting Elliot and Yazmin?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. What subject does John/Fountainhead try to avoid by making small talk about Puerto Rico?

10. What wrong assumption does John/Fountainhead make based on Odessa/Haikumom's appearance?

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