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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 struggle in the beginning of the sonnet, according to Ashford?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Education.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.
2. How does Vivian get to the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) She is driven by a colleague.
(b) She is taken in by an ambulance.
(c) She drives herself.
(d) She takes a taxi.
3. What does Vivian want to document to the audience before grand rounds?
(a) The strange quietness of hospital rooms.
(b) The times between the dramatic climaxes.
(c) The loneliness that exists during cancer.
(d) Her loss of hair.
4. How many nightgowns does Vivian say she wears all day?
(a) One, as well as a bathrobe.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) One less than is comfortable.
5. Who did Vivian study Donne under?
(a) Posner.
(b) Bearing.
(c) Ashford.
(d) Kelekian.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Vivian wearing as the play begins?
2. What example does Vivian's father give her to help her understand the definition of the word she struggles with?
3. What does Vivian describe as “mildly uncomfortable” in Scene 5?
4. Why is Vivian's treatment aggressive?
5. How long did Vivian study with Ashford?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Vivian foreshadow, or hint at, her fever prior to Scene 8?
2. What is the truth that Ashford refers to in her explanation of Donne's sonnet?
3. Why does Jason suddenly stop as he is talking about Vivian during the examination?
4. What is the standard greeting where Vivian is? What is her standard response?
5. What are the two examples Vivian gives of being asked the standard greeting?
6. How does Vivian describe the introduction her colleagues would write?
7. How does Vivian say she would have preferred her play be cast? Why can it not be?
8. What does Vivian like about grand rounds?
9. Why does Vivian recite Donne's Holy Sonnet Six while she is waiting for Jason to examine her?
10. Why is Vivian's diagnosis so concerning?
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