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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 example does Vivian's father give her to help her understand the definition of the word she struggles with?
(a) Vivian's mother's flower-bed.
(b) Boring dinner conversation.
(c) Deer ticks.
(d) His Victorian Era settee.

2. Who does Vivian ask Susie to call for her when Susie offers?
(a) Ashford.
(b) One of her students.
(c) Mr. Bearing.
(d) No one.

3. What question does Vivian discuss in her opening monologue?
(a) “Do you have any questions?”
(b) “Do you understand?”
(c) “How are you feeling today?”
(d) “Does that sound good?”

4. What was Vivian doing when she decided to go into the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) Baking cookies.
(b) Driving.
(c) Reading at home.
(d) Grading essays.

5. When does Scene 6 open?
(a) Thursday afternoon.
(b) Saturday evening.
(c) Friday morning.
(d) Monday morning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word does Kelekian use to refer to Vivian's cancer?

3. What trait do Vivian and Kelekian emphasize with their students?

4. What does Jason call Vivian's condition when he sees her at the beginning of Scene 8?

5. How would Vivian tell her students to think of her situation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the irony of Vivian's hospitalization during her chemotherapy?

6. How does Vivian say she would have preferred her play be cast? Why can it not be?

7. Describe Vivian as she appears at the opening of the play.

8. How does Vivian's father teach her the word “soporific?”

9. Why does Vivian appreciate Kelekian's thoroughness as he explains the situation to her?

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

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