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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 will happen after the final treatment cycle?
(a) Vivian will undergo a battery of tests.
(b) Vivian will be in remission.
(c) Vivian's tumor will be removed.
(d) Vivian will have to decide the next step.

2. Who presents Vivian's case during grand rounds?
(a) Jason.
(b) A doctor Vivian has never met.
(c) Kelekian.
(d) Susie.

3. How does Vivian get to the hospital at the beginning of Scene 8?
(a) She takes a taxi.
(b) She drives herself.
(c) She is driven by a colleague.
(d) She is taken in by an ambulance.

4. What is the problem with the translation Vivian used?
(a) The adjectives are missing.
(b) It was renounced by scholars.
(c) The punctuation.
(d) The meter.

5. Vivian says she wants to know what the doctors mean when they ______.
(a) Talk over her.
(b) Anatomize her.
(c) Treat her.
(d) Figuratively dissect her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Vivian's principal task during her time with Ashford?

2. What sonnet is Vivian's paper about that must be done over?

3. What is Vivian's only defense?

4. Why does Vivian ring the bell after she vomits?

5. What does Vivian think would be a great loss to her discipline?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Vivian like about grand rounds?

3. How does Vivian describe the introduction her colleagues would write?

4. Why does Vivian explain her career while the technicians perform their tests?

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

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

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

8. What are three things Vivian think about while Kelekian is explaining her diagnosis?

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

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

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