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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vivian say the reader of the sonnet wants to do to the speaker when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Correct him.
(b) Hide from him.
(c) Condemn him.
(d) Join him.

2. What course does Jason think is a colossal waste of time for researchers?
(a) Seventeenth-century poetry.
(b) Bedside manner.
(c) End-of-life Ethics.
(d) Clinicals that require patient interaction.

3. How does Vivian get Susie to come into her room?
(a) She moans in pain.
(b) She pinches her IV tubing.
(c) She presses the call button.
(d) She coughs.

4. How does Vivian connect her new word with the story she is reading?
(a) A dictionary her father gives her.
(b) The illustration.
(c) The example her father gives her.
(d) When her teacher uses the word in class the next day.

5. What does Susie call Vivian when she comes into her room to take care of the alarm?
(a) Hon.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Sweetheart.
(d) Darlin'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What poem does Vivian quote in her final coherent lines of the play?

2. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?

3. What about Vivian's condition does she think Donne would revel in?

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

5. What does Vivian overhear two students mocking after a class?

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