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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the last thing Vivian says to the audience?
2. What time of day was it when Vivian got Susie to come in her room at the opening of Scene 13?
3. Who tells Vivian what Susie and Jason are doing?
4. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?
5. Which of the following is NOT one of the larger aspects Donne addresses in his sonnets?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Vivian unable to explain to the audience what she is going through before she receives morphine?
2. What two options did Vivian have when a student's comment contained an insightful seed? What were the possible consequences of each?
3. Why does Vivian recite the sonnet beginning “This is my playes last scene?”
4. Why does Vivian tell the audience that “now is the time for kindness?”
5. Why does Jason simplify the explanation of Vivian's kidney function?
6. Why does Vivian feel her recitation of Donne is “wrong” in her last coherent lines?
7. What is Vivian trying to think of when she reminisces about her interactions with students?
8. Why does Vivian use the word “soporific” when she asks about the effect of the morphine?
9. Why does Vivian shut her own eyelids and cross her arms over her chest?
10. Why does Susie tell Vivian that she and Jason are inserting a catheter even though she can't hear Susie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the parallel between Vivian's study of Donne and her battle with cancer. How does the study of Donne complement Vivian's illness? Why is cancer more difficult for Vivian than the study of Donne? What does this parallel reveal about Vivian's character?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Vivian and Jason. How are they alike? How are they different? How does Edson use these similarities and differences to deepen the story?
Essay Topic 3
Define characterization. Give at least one example of each type of characterization used in Wit to describe Vivian. Write a brief character biography of Vivian.
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