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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author does Vivian quote at the end of Scene 1?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) John Keats.
(d) John Donne.

2. What organ will be monitored during Vivian's treatment cycles?
(a) Kidneys.
(b) Heart.
(c) Liver.
(d) Lungs.

3. What is Vivian wearing as the play begins?
(a) Graduation robes.
(b) A hospital gown.
(c) Street clothes.
(d) A wedding dress.

4. Why is Vivian's treatment aggressive?
(a) The tumor is spreading quickly.
(b) It will keep the cancer from spreading.
(c) There are multiple tumors.
(d) The tumor is very large.

5. What is the problem with the translation Vivian used?
(a) The meter.
(b) The adjectives are missing.
(c) It was renounced by scholars.
(d) The punctuation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year dates Gardner's source materials?

2. What percentage of the chemotherapy dose does Vivian have to take?

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

4. What source does Gardner's translation use for the sonnets?

5. What is the struggle in the beginning of the sonnet, according to Ashford?

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