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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 does Vivian do after meeting with Ashford?
(a) Read it again.
(b) Go outside.
(c) Do the paper over.
(d) Go back to the library.

2. What stage is Vivian's cancer in?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. What is the problem with the translation Vivian used?
(a) The punctuation.
(b) It was renounced by scholars.
(c) The meter.
(d) The adjectives are missing.

4. In what class did Vivian write the paper she has to do over?
(a) Contemporary Poetry.
(b) Seventeenth-Century Poetry.
(c) The Modern Novel.
(d) Metaphysical Poetry.

5. How does Vivian think her colleagues would honor her memory?
(a) A memorial service during which they read the Holy Sonnets.
(b) A portrait in the hall of the department.
(c) A collection of her essays on John Donne.
(d) A collection of their essays on John Donne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will Vivian stay during each cycle of treatment?

2. Who takes Vivian's medical history in Scene 4?

3. What is Vivian's first appointment in Scene 4?

4. What does Susie take with her when she leaves Vivian's room at the end of Scene 5?

5. What does Ashford instruct Vivian to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vivian describe the introduction her colleagues would write?

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

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

4. How does Ashford describe Vivian's essay?

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

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

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

8. Explain the cycle of Vivian's chemotherapy treatments as it relates to her overall feeling.

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

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

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