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

2. What translation should Vivian have used?
(a) Garnder's.
(b) Graves's.
(c) Wyatt's.
(d) Metcalf's.

3. How does Vivian connect her new word with the story she is reading?
(a) A dictionary her father gives her.
(b) When her teacher uses the word in class the next day.
(c) The illustration.
(d) The example her father gives her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vivian say about medical terms in comparison to the words of Donne?

3. How does Vivian understand the poem, as explained by Ashford?

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

5. How many visitors has Vivian had since arriving at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vivian link what she learned in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and her career work in Donne?

2. What does Vivian think the process would be if she barfed her brains out?

3. What are the two examples Vivian gives of being asked the standard greeting?

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

5. What is the standard greeting where Vivian is? What is her standard response?

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

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

8. Why does Susie note that Vivian has not had many visitors? How does Vivian react?

9. What is the truth that Ashford refers to in her explanation of Donne's sonnet?

10. How does Vivian describe the introduction her colleagues would write?

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