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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. Who published Vivian's dissertation?
(a) The University Press.
(b) The Scholarly Journal of Literature.
(c) The Journal of English Texts.
(d) Critical Discourse.

2. According to Gardner's translation, what separates life from life everlasting?
(a) A period.
(b) A comma.
(c) A day.
(d) A dream.

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

4. Who takes Vivian's medical history in Scene 4?
(a) Susie.
(b) Kelekian.
(c) A technician.
(d) Jason.

5. What will happen after the final treatment cycle?
(a) Vivian's tumor will be removed.
(b) Vivian will undergo a battery of tests.
(c) Vivian will have to decide the next step.
(d) Vivian will be in remission.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vivian get to the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?

2. What translation should Vivian have used?

3. What does Vivian consider her life's work?

4. What food does Susie offer Vivian?

5. How does Vivian think her colleagues would honor her memory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Vivian recite Donne's Holy Sonnet Six while she is waiting for Jason to examine her?

3. Why does Jason suddenly stop as he is talking about Vivian during the examination?

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

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

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

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

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

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