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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Vivian say she is supposed to think is a relief?
(a) Being able to drink juice.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Being finished with her treatment.
(d) Getting back to her room after the tests.

5. How does Vivian describe the level of her sickness after her ultrasound?
(a) Ultimately sick.
(b) Understatedly sick.
(c) Overwhelmingly sick.
(d) Terminally sick.

6. What does Jason check when he and Susie enter Vivian's room to insert a catheter?
(a) Her hands.
(b) Her pupils.
(c) Her I&O chart.
(d) Her vitals.

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

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

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

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

11. How is Vivian's medication administered?
(a) With a pump.
(b) Using her IV.
(c) With a syringe.
(d) In a drip.

12. What word does Vivian define for Susie?
(a) Somnolent.
(b) Somneriferous.
(c) Slumberous.
(d) Soporific.

13. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?
(a) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(b) Where did Donne come up with his ideas?
(c) Why does Donne make everything so complicated?
(d) Why are the sonnets “holy?”

14. What does Susie want to discuss with Vivian?
(a) Whether or not she will continue with the next treatment cycle.
(b) Her preferences for transitional care.
(c) Who she would like to have claim her body.
(d) Her wishes about medical interventions.

15. What does Jason say Vivian's class trained him for?
(a) Lab research.
(b) Clinicals.
(c) Medical school.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jason describe John Donne?

2. How does Jason describe cancer?

3. Why does Jason say Vivian is not given patient-controlled medication?

4. What question does Vivian ask about a sonnet in a flashback of her student interactions?

5. What does Jason want to give Vivian to keep her hydrated?

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