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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?
(a) Where did Donne come up with his ideas?
(b) Why does Donne make everything so complicated?
(c) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(d) Why are the sonnets “holy?”

2. What question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?
(a) Why he chose cancer research.
(b) Why he took her poetry class.
(c) What hospital he wants to pursue his research.
(d) Why he does not like patients.

3. What was Vivian's principal task during her time with Ashford?
(a) Responding to fan mail.
(b) Grading freshman essays.
(c) Organizing manuscripts.
(d) Alphabetizing index cards.

4. What sonnet is Vivian's paper about that must be done over?
(a) Holy Sonnet Ten.
(b) Holy Sonnet Six.
(c) Holy Sonnet Five.
(d) Lady Lazarus.

5. Why does Kelekian wear a mask when he checks on Vivian?
(a) He forgot to take it off when he entered her room.
(b) He has a cold.
(c) She is in the operating room.
(d) She is in isolation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the larger aspects Donne addresses in his sonnets?

2. What is Vivian's only defense?

3. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?

4. According to Gardner's translation, what separates life from life everlasting?

5. What course does Jason think is a colossal waste of time for researchers?

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