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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last thing Vivian says to the audience?
(a) “I want to go home.”
(b) “I'm sorry.”
(c) “Good night.”
(d) “I'm just so tired.”

2. What test does Vivian have to have done when she is interrupted while she imagines she is teaching?
(a) A GI series.
(b) An ultrasound.
(c) A pelvic exam.
(d) A chest x-ray.

3. What time of day was it when Vivian got Susie to come in her room at the opening of Scene 13?
(a) The time of day is not given.
(b) Sometime before breakfast.
(c) Late at night.
(d) Around lunchtime.

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

5. What question does Jason ask Vivian to check her mental status?
(a) “Do you know where you are?”
(b) “How are you feeling today?”
(c) “What day is it?”
(d) “Who is the President of the United States?”

6. Why does Vivian wander the stage at the end of Scene 12?
(a) She is trying to think of something.
(b) She is looking for her hospital room.
(c) She is imagining she is lecturing.
(d) A scene change is occurring behind her.

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

8. Why does Jason say Vivian is not given patient-controlled medication?
(a) She will not know when she has had enough.
(b) She has earned a rest.
(c) She is too weak to be able to push the button for the medication.
(d) She does not want control over her medication dosing.

9. What level of fluids does Jason tell Vivian to push for each day?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 200.
(d) 300.

10. How does Vivian respond when the student asks her for a favor?
(a) She refuses to answer the question.
(b) She declines the student’s request.
(c) She grants the favor.
(d) She laughs.

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

12. What effect does Susie say the medication will have on Vivian?
(a) It will make her limbs feel heavy.
(b) It will make her feel numb.
(c) It will make her breathing shallower.
(d) It will make her sleepy.

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

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

15. Who does Vivian say is the greatest wit?
(a) John Donne.
(b) E. M. Ashford.
(c) Herself.
(d) Susie.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Vivian react when she is told about what Susie and Jason are doing?

2. What reason does one of the students give when asked why Donne makes his sonnets complicated?

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

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

5. What does Susie want to discuss with Vivian?

(see the answer keys)

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