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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 question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?
(a) Why he took her poetry class.
(b) What hospital he wants to pursue his research.
(c) Why he does not like patients.
(d) Why he chose cancer research.

2. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?
(a) Why does Donne make everything so complicated?
(b) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(c) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(d) Where did Donne come up with his ideas?

3. What is Susie glad Vivian did when she gives Vivian the morphine?
(a) Allowed herself to cry.
(b) Trusted her.
(c) Explained what was funny.
(d) Stood up for her rights as a patient.

4. What word does Vivian define for Susie?
(a) Soporific.
(b) Somnolent.
(c) Slumberous.
(d) Somneriferous.

5. What is the date of the sonnet Vivian recites when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1611.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vivian say she likes the poem she recites after her ultrasound?

2. What flavor of treat does Susie bring to Vivian?

3. Who closes Vivian's eyes after she is given her initial dose of morphine?

4. Why does Vivian wander the stage at the end of Scene 12?

5. What phrase does Jason use to explain the constant growth of cancer cells?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jason simplify the explanation of Vivian's kidney function?

2. Why does Vivian tell the audience that “now is the time for kindness?”

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

4. Why does Vivian think of herself as “just the specimen jar?”

5. Why does Vivian recite the sonnet beginning “This is my playes last scene?”

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

7. Why does Susie tell Vivian that she and Jason are inserting a catheter even though she can't hear Susie?

8. How do Jason and Susie's views of Vivian compare and contrast?

9. What is Vivian trying to think of when she reminisces about her interactions with students?

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

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