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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 is Vivian's first appointment in Scene 4?
(a) Physical exam.
(b) Chest x-ray.
(c) GI series.
(d) Blood work.

2. What example does Vivian's father give her to help her understand the definition of the word she struggles with?
(a) Vivian's mother's flower-bed.
(b) Deer ticks.
(c) Boring dinner conversation.
(d) His Victorian Era settee.

3. What does Vivian say she is learning to do during her course of chemotherapy treatment?
(a) To be patient.
(b) To sleep.
(c) To survive.
(d) To suffer.

4. Why does Vivian have to wait for her physical exam?
(a) She wants to create suspense for the audience.
(b) She is early for her appointment.
(c) Kelekian is with another patient.
(d) Jason has to find Susie.

5. How does Vivian occupy herself while she waits for her physical exam?
(a) She speculates how her career path would have gone if she had not gotten cancer.
(b) She recites a sonnet by John Donne.
(c) She imagines she is giving a lecture.
(d) She sings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Jason to lose his composure at the end of Vivian's physical exam?

2. What word does Kelekian use to refer to Vivian's cancer?

3. How long did Vivian study with Ashford?

4. What organ will be monitored during Vivian's treatment cycles?

5. Who does Vivian ask Susie to call for her when Susie offers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Vivian's diagnosis so concerning?

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

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

5. What does Vivian think the process would be if she barfed her brains out?

6. How does Vivian foreshadow, or hint at, her fever prior to Scene 8?

7. Why does Vivian appreciate Kelekian's thoroughness as he explains the situation to her?

8. When and how did Vivian discover words would be her life's work?

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

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

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