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

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

3. What is the address of Odessa's house?
(a) 33 Manitoba Street.
(b) 33 Newfoundland Street.
(c) 33 Quebec Street.
(d) 33 Ontario Street.

4. 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 Sapporo train station.
(b) The flattening of all hills in Hokkaido.
(c) The construction of the giant hydroelectric dam in Hokkaido.
(d) The straightening of all rivers in Hokkaido.

5. What are the final three words of Ginny's eulogy?
(a) She gave love.
(b) She was ours.
(c) She was loved.
(d) She was here.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is the car ChutesAndLadders is trying to sell?

2. What is the name of Chutes and Ladders's son, whom he has not seen in a long time?

3. How does ChutesAndLadders describe the color of the car he is trying to sell?

4. How many abandoned homes did Ginny refurbish and sell to young families prior to her death?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the main tenets of Odessa/Haikumom's advice to John/Fountainhead when they meet for the first time in person at the diner?

2. What is significant about Odessa/Haikumom's question to John/Fountainhead about whether his original crack dealer had been male or female?

3. What does the light represent within Scene Twelve when Madeleine/Orangutan is awakened on the train platform by the policeman's flashlight and Yazmin sees a light above Odessa/Haikumom?

4. What does John/Fountainhead finally admit just before Elliot and Yazmin enter the diner?

5. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's choice to list John/Fountainhead as her emergency contact?

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