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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. What food does Susie offer Vivian?
(a) Jell-O.
(b) A Popsicle.
(c) Soup.
(d) A slushie.

2. What turn does Vivian's vocabulary take in Scene 5?
(a) A turn for the Anglo-Saxon.
(b) A turn for the less eloquent.
(c) A turn for the vernacular.
(d) A turn for the colloquial.

3. How does Vivian handle unfamiliar medical terms?
(a) She pretends she understands.
(b) She looks them up.
(c) She analyzes them by breaking them down.
(d) She asks Susie.

4. What does Jason call Vivian's condition when he sees her at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) “Halfway to Heaven.”
(b) “Road pizza.”
(c) “Shake and bake.”
(d) “Attention-seeking.”

5. What will happen after the final treatment cycle?
(a) Vivian will undergo a battery of tests.
(b) Vivian's tumor will be removed.
(c) Vivian will be in remission.
(d) Vivian will have to decide the next step.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vivian wearing as the play begins?

2. What false name does Vivian give a technician?

3. Why is Vivian's treatment aggressive?

4. What is Vivian's first appointment in Scene 4?

5. What sonnet is Vivian's paper about that must be done over?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the cycle of Vivian's chemotherapy treatments as it relates to her overall feeling.

2. How does Vivian say she would have preferred her play be cast? Why can it not be?

3. Why is Ashford unhappy that Vivian used the translation of Donne that she did? Why does Ashford prefer Gardner's edition?

4. What does Vivian say the audience will see in “this dramatic structure?” What does Vivian want to document?

5. What is the irony of Vivian's hospitalization during her chemotherapy?

6. How does Ashford describe Vivian's essay?

7. When and how did Vivian discover words would be her life's work?

8. Why does Vivian recite Donne's Holy Sonnet Six while she is waiting for Jason to examine her?

9. Why does Jason suddenly stop as he is talking about Vivian during the examination?

10. Give two reasons Vivian looks up medical terms she does not know?

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