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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. Vivian says she wants to know what the doctors mean when they ______.
(a) Figuratively dissect her.
(b) Treat her.
(c) Talk over her.
(d) Anatomize her.

2. What overwhelms the meaning of the sonnet in the translation Vivian used?
(a) Meter.
(b) Punctuation.
(c) The translator's religiosity.
(d) Adverbs.

3. How old is Vivian when Scene 7 opens?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 5.
(d) 18.

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

5. How does Vivian occupy herself while she waits for her physical exam?
(a) She speculates how her career path would have gone if she had not gotten cancer.
(b) She imagines she is giving a lecture.
(c) She recites a sonnet by John Donne.
(d) She sings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vivian's second appointment in Scene 4?

2. What is Vivian's only defense?

3. How does Vivian connect her new word with the story she is reading?

4. What was Vivian's principal task during her time with Ashford?

5. What stage is Vivian's cancer in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Vivian like about grand rounds?

2. How does Ashford describe Vivian's essay?

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

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

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

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

7. What are three things Vivian think about while Kelekian is explaining her diagnosis?

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

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

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

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