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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 flavor of treat does Susie bring to Vivian?
(a) Apple.
(b) Strawberry.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Orange.

2. What question does Jason ask Vivian to check her mental status?
(a) “What day is it?”
(b) “Do you know where you are?”
(c) “How are you feeling today?”
(d) “Who is the President of the United States?”

3. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Sonnet Three.
(b) Sonnet Six.
(c) Sonnet Five.
(d) Sonnet Fifteen.

4. What does Vivian apologize for before she is given more pain medication?
(a) Her swearing.
(b) The lack of coherence in the play that will result.
(c) Her incorrect interpretations of Donne sonnets that will result.
(d) The giddiness she will feel.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the larger aspects Donne addresses in his sonnets?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) God.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Vivian give for her explanation?

2. What does Jason have to survive in order to begin his research?

3. Why does Jason say Vivian is not given patient-controlled medication?

4. What question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?

5. How does Vivian say some would describe her in everything she has done?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vivian make her bed alarm go off in the middle of the night?

2. Why is Vivian unable to explain to the audience what she is going through before she receives morphine?

3. Why is Vivian scared?

4. Why does Vivian shut her own eyelids and cross her arms over her chest?

5. Why does Vivian allow Susie to call her “sweetheart?”

6. Explain Vivian's reaction to hearing two students mock her after class.

7. What is the significance of Vivian surviving eight cycles of chemotherapy at the full dosage?

8. What is the joke that makes Vivian laugh when Susie gives her morphine?

9. What is Salvation Anxiety?

10. Why does Vivian feel her recitation of Donne is “wrong” in her last coherent lines?

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