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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Haikumom's job?
2. What event does ChutesAndLadders name as the event that once ended a 5-year stretch of sobriety in his life?
3. What are the final three words of Ginny's eulogy?
4. What feature does Elliot say Ginny had used her carpentry skills to build on 47 different occasions?
5. When Odessa does not answer her door, how do Elliot and Yazmin know that she is in her house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Odessa/Haikumom's instructions to John/Fountainhead after she regains consciousness in the hospital?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What is the playwright's purpose in having three different scenes play out at the same time in Scene Eleven?
5. What is the significance of Odessa/Haikumom's whereabouts and actions during the time her sister Ginny's funeral is taking place across town?
6. What is the significance of the water wings' presence on Clay/ChutesandLadders's desk?
7. What do Odessa/Haikumom and John/Fountainhead find that they have in common when they first meet at the diner in person?
8. How does Elliot react to Odessa/Haikumom's claim that she does not have money to contribute for Ginny's funeral wreath?
9. How are the themes of hope and new beginnings portrayed in Scene Eleven when Clay/ChutesandLadders tries to sell his car on the phone?
10. What subject does John/Fountainhead try to avoid by making small talk about Puerto Rico?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the motif of water within Water by the Spoonful. In what instances does water emerge, what patterns are present in its emergence, and what messages are sent through its overall portrayal? Use concrete details from the play to support your points.
Essay Topic 2
What is the play's overall message concerning the inevitability of the past's hold on humans' current identities? Create a clear and specific claim stating the playwright's message and back up your points with carefully chosen scenes and quotes from the play.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the playwright's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within Water by the Spoonful. Be sure to use particular characters and their situations to arrive at a specific and clear claim about the playwright's treatment of these topics. Use quotes from the play to support your claim.
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