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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 is the definition of the word Vivian struggles with as she reads on her birthday?
(a) Makes you sleepy.
(b) Having the properties of blood.
(c) A type of flower.
(d) Aged.

2. What is Vivian's only defense?
(a) The use of her extensive vocabulary.
(b) Donne.
(c) The acquisition of vocabulary.
(d) Demanding the doctors explain things on her level.

3. Why does Vivian ring the bell after she vomits?
(a) So she can get help going to the restroom.
(b) So she can have a fresh glass of water.
(c) So the vomit can be added to her chart.
(d) So she can have some ice chips.

4. What is Vivian's first appointment in Scene 4?
(a) Chest x-ray.
(b) Blood work.
(c) Physical exam.
(d) GI series.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What side effect of Vivian's medication trips up the fellows during grand rounds?

2. What organ will be monitored during Vivian's treatment cycles?

3. How old is Vivian when Scene 7 opens?

4. What overwhelms the meaning of the sonnet in the translation Vivian used?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Vivian's diagnosis so concerning?

4. Why does Vivian explain her career while the technicians perform their tests?

5. Why does Jason not want to lower Vivian's dose of chemotherapy?

6. How does Vivian foreshadow, or hint at, her fever prior to Scene 8?

7. Give two reasons Vivian looks up medical terms she does not know?

8. Why is Ashford unhappy that Vivian used the translation of Donne that she did? Why does Ashford prefer Gardner's edition?

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

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

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