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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Vivian get to the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) She takes a taxi.
(b) She is driven by a colleague.
(c) She drives herself.
(d) She is taken in by an ambulance.

2. What causes Jason to lose his composure at the end of Vivian's physical exam?
(a) The size of the mass in Vivian's body.
(b) Susie's outburst.
(c) Vivian's response to his exam.
(d) The fact that she is a professor he had as an undergraduate.

3. Why does Jason go into Vivian's room wearing protective clothing?
(a) To check her I&O chart.
(b) He is following Kelekian.
(c) To give her a new IV bag.
(d) To take her vitals.

4. How would Vivian tell her students to think of her situation?
(a) As a puzzle.
(b) As allusion.
(c) As wit.
(d) As irony.

5. What is the title of the book Vivian published?
(a) Donne and Death: a Comprehensive Text.
(b) Made Cunningly.
(c) Death Be Not Proud.
(d) A Biography of John Donne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivian say she is supposed to think is a relief?

2. Why is Vivian's treatment aggressive?

3. How do Jason and Kelekian feel about how Vivian's treatment has gone?

4. Vivian says, “What we have come to think of as me is, in fact, just the ____.”

5. When did Vivian lose her hair?

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