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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 the date of the sonnet Vivian recites when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1603.

2. What does Jason want to give Vivian to keep her hydrated?
(a) Water.
(b) A Popsicle.
(c) Saline.
(d) Dextrose.

3. How many cycles of treatment has Vivian endured after her ultrasound?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

4. How do Jason and Kelekian feel about how Vivian's treatment has gone?
(a) They are optimistic.
(b) They are concerned.
(c) They are not saying much about it.
(d) They are delighted.

5. How does Jason describe Vivian's seventeenth-century poetry course?
(a) Like his first patient.
(b) Like boot camp.
(c) Like showing up to class in your underwear.
(d) Like learning a language without a dictionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vivian respond when the student asks her for a favor?

2. What question does Jason ask Vivian to check her mental status?

3. What does Jason come in to Vivian's room to check at the beginning of Scene 11?

4. Who closes Vivian's eyes after she is given her initial dose of morphine?

5. How does Vivian get Susie to come into her room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Vivian's reaction to hearing two students mock her after class.

2. Why is it significant that someone always asked Vivian why Donne made his sonnets so complicated?

3. Why does Vivian feel her recitation of Donne is “wrong” in her last coherent lines?

4. Why is Vivian so upset at her imaginary lecture being interrupted by Susie?

5. Why does Vivian think of herself as “just the specimen jar?”

6. Why is Vivian unable to explain to the audience what she is going through before she receives morphine?

7. What is the irony in Vivian's desire for personal contact with Jason?

8. What is the significance of Vivian surviving eight cycles of chemotherapy at the full dosage?

9. What is the parallel between Vivian and Jason's careers?

10. Why does Vivian recite the sonnet beginning “This is my playes last scene?”

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