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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Jason and Kelekian's journal article be about?
(a) Vivian's lungs.
(b) Vivian's ovaries.
(c) The effects of Hexamethophosphacil and Vinplatin.
(d) Vivian.

2. What does Vivian compare herself to when she says she wants to explain but is unable?
(a) A toddler.
(b) A bird.
(c) A Donne sonnet.
(d) A student.

3. What does Vivian guess is the reason the student asks a favor of her?
(a) She truly wants to learn.
(b) Her previous mentor has retired.
(c) She is sucking up to Vivian.
(d) Her grandmother has died.

4. What effect does Vivian expect the medication to have on her?
(a) Soporific.
(b) Somnolent.
(c) Slumberous.
(d) Somneriferous.

5. What is Susie glad Vivian did when she gives Vivian the morphine?
(a) Explained what was funny.
(b) Trusted her.
(c) Stood up for her rights as a patient.
(d) Allowed herself to cry.

6. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Sonnet Five.
(b) Sonnet Six.
(c) Sonnet Fifteen.
(d) Sonnet Three.

7. What kind of medication does Susie say Vivian will get?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Constant.
(c) Patient-controlled.
(d) Not so much that she will be unconscious.

8. How does Vivian say some would describe her in everything she has done?
(a) Extreme.
(b) Resolute.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Steadfast.

9. How does Jason describe cancer?
(a) Puzzling.
(b) Draining.
(c) Awesome.
(d) Insidious.

10. What reason does Vivian give for her explanation?
(a) She does not want Susie to feel ignored.
(b) She once had someone explain it to her.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She wants Susie to understand why she makes the decisions she does.

11. Who prescribed Vivian's morphine drip?
(a) Susie.
(b) Jason.
(c) An on-call doctor Vivian does not know.
(d) Kelekian.

12. How does the scene end when Vivian gets morphine?
(a) Jason checks Vivian's I&O chart.
(b) Kelekian takes Vivian's vitals.
(c) Vivian thanks the audience for their attention.
(d) Vivian falls asleep.

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

14. What phrase does Jason use to explain the constant growth of cancer cells?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Cellular colonialization.
(c) Invasion.
(d) Immortality in culture.

15. What does a student ask Vivian for after a class?
(a) An explanation of a particular line.
(b) The definition of a word.
(c) Her mentorship.
(d) An extension on a deadline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What test does Vivian have to have done when she is interrupted while she imagines she is teaching?

2. What does Jason say the Holy Sonnets are about?

3. How does Vivian say she likes the poem she recites after her ultrasound?

4. What question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?

5. Who interrupts Vivian's lecture when she imagines she is teaching?

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