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

2. At what point does ChutesAndLadders hang up once his son answers his father's first call in many years?

3. What do Yazmin and Elliot see when they turn on the lights inside Odessa's house?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What simile does Odessa/Haikumom use to describe trying to stay clean when she states that the support forum helps her fill the hours?

2. 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?

3. What kinds of qualities does the audience surmise about Ginny's character through hearing Elliot and Yaz deliver her eulogy?

4. 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?

5. How are the themes of hope and new beginnings portrayed in Scene Eleven when Clay/ChutesandLadders tries to sell his car on the phone?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the playwright's use of light as a motif within the play Water by the Spoonful. How is the motif used and what messages are sent through the scenes in which the motif appears? Back up your points with quotes from the play.

Essay Topic 2

Does Water by the Spoonful qualify as a humanist work of literature/theater? Why or why not? Support your claim with information about Humanism and with quotes from the play.

Essay Topic 3

What message does the play send to the audience about the nature and defintion of family? Create a specific, arguable, and clear claim stating the play's message concerning the nature and definition of family and use concrete details to back up your claim.

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