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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What overwhelms the meaning of the sonnet in the translation Vivian used?
(a) Meter.
(b) The translator's religiosity.
(c) Punctuation.
(d) Adverbs.

2. When did Vivian lose her hair?
(a) It is still falling out.
(b) Between the fourth and fifth cycles of chemotherapy.
(c) She shaved her head before she began chemotherapy.
(d) After the first cycle of chemotherapy.

3. What does Vivian consider her life's work?
(a) Education.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Donne.
(d) Words.

4. What is the struggle in the beginning of the sonnet, according to Ashford?
(a) Love.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Death.
(d) Education.

5. What source does Gardner's translation use for the sonnets?
(a) Essex manuscripts.
(b) London manuscripts.
(c) Westmoreland manuscripts.
(d) Reading manuscripts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait do Vivian and Kelekian emphasize with their students?

2. In what class did Vivian write the paper she has to do over?

3. What is Vivian wearing as the play begins?

4. What does Vivian say she is learning to do during her course of chemotherapy treatment?

5. When does Scene 6 open?

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