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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivian want to document to the audience before grand rounds?
(a) The loneliness that exists during cancer.
(b) The times between the dramatic climaxes.
(c) The strange quietness of hospital rooms.
(d) Her loss of hair.

2. What does Susie give Vivian to drink at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) Ice water.
(b) Juice.
(c) Hot tea.
(d) Milk.

3. Who published Vivian's dissertation?
(a) The Journal of English Texts.
(b) Critical Discourse.
(c) The University Press.
(d) The Scholarly Journal of Literature.

4. Why does Vivian go into the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) She wants to say hello to Susie.
(b) She is scheduled for her fifth cycle of chemotherapy.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She has a fever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ashford instruct Vivian to do?

2. What literary device does Vivian reference in her opening monologue?

3. What does Vivian describe as “mildly uncomfortable” in Scene 5?

4. What about Vivian's condition does she think Donne would revel in?

5. What will happen after the final treatment cycle?

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