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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. How many visitors has Vivian had since arriving at the hospital?
(a) Only a few.
(b) Enough to fill a lecture hall.
(c) None.
(d) Several.

2. Why is Vivian's treatment aggressive?
(a) It will keep the cancer from spreading.
(b) There are multiple tumors.
(c) The tumor is spreading quickly.
(d) The tumor is very large.

3. How would Vivian tell her students to think of her situation?
(a) As irony.
(b) As a puzzle.
(c) As allusion.
(d) As wit.

4. Who did Vivian study Donne under?
(a) Kelekian.
(b) Posner.
(c) Ashford.
(d) Bearing.

5. What does Vivian think would be a great loss to her discipline?
(a) Her death.
(b) Allowing her colleagues to hear her vocabulary.
(c) Retiring.
(d) Barfing her brains out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What turn does Vivian's vocabulary take in Scene 5?

2. What will happen after the final treatment cycle?

3. How long does Vivian say she is given to live?

4. What advantage do the doctors have over Vivian in the world of vocabulary?

5. What fruit is the same size as Vivian's tumor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Give two reasons Vivian looks up medical terms she does not know?

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

3. What is the irony of Vivian's hospitalization during her chemotherapy?

4. Why does Jason suddenly stop as he is talking about Vivian during the examination?

5. Why is Ashford unhappy that Vivian used the translation of Donne that she did? Why does Ashford prefer Gardner's edition?

6. How does Vivian link what she learned in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and her career work in Donne?

7. What is the truth that Ashford refers to in her explanation of Donne's sonnet?

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

9. Why does Jason not want to lower Vivian's dose of chemotherapy?

10. How does Ashford describe Vivian's essay?

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