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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What year dates Gardner's source materials?
(a) 1455.
(b) 1623.
(c) They are undated.
(d) 1610.

3. Who did Vivian study Donne under?
(a) Kelekian.
(b) Posner.
(c) Bearing.
(d) Ashford.

4. What does Vivian do after meeting with Ashford?
(a) Do the paper over.
(b) Go back to the library.
(c) Go outside.
(d) Read it again.

5. What does Vivian think would be a great loss to her discipline?
(a) Barfing her brains out.
(b) Retiring.
(c) Her death.
(d) Allowing her colleagues to hear her vocabulary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivian want to document to the audience before grand rounds?

2. What kind of cancer does Vivian have?

3. What is the definition of the word Vivian struggles with as she reads on her birthday?

4. Why does Vivian ring the bell after she vomits?

5. What stage is Vivian's cancer in?

(see the answer key)

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