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

2. What type of student usually asks the question Vivian is asked every year?
(a) One of the students who ends up working as a teaching assistant.
(b) One of the students taking the class as an elective.
(c) One of the non-traditional students.
(d) One of the smart ones.

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

4. How does Jason know Vivian's kidneys are functioning properly?
(a) Her intake and output levels are even.
(b) He did an x-ray of her kidneys to check.
(c) He has no way of knowing for sure.
(d) Her kidneys were removed prior to her treatment.

5. What does Jason say the Holy Sonnets are about?
(a) Salvation anxiety.
(b) The necessity of faith.
(c) The search for God.
(d) Damnation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a lot of the students think of Vivian, according to Jason?

2. How does Vivian say some would describe her in everything she has done?

3. What is the date of the poem Vivian recites after her ultrasound?

4. Who convinces Vivian to go to her test when she imagines she is teaching?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Vivian allow Susie to call her “sweetheart?”

3. What is Salvation Anxiety?

4. What is Vivian trying to think of when she reminisces about her interactions with students?

5. Why does Vivian make her bed alarm go off in the middle of the night?

6. Does Donne ever understand his Salvation Anxiety? Why or why not?

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

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

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

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

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