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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What question does Vivian ask about a sonnet in a flashback of her student interactions?
(a) What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?
(b) What makes this sonnet significant?
(c) Why did Donne write this sonnet?
(d) What propels this sonnet?

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

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

6. What reason does one of the students give when asked why Donne makes his sonnets complicated?
(a) To sound smarter.
(b) To make Vivian's class more difficult.
(c) Because he is hiding.
(d) He does not know how complicated his sonnets are.

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

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

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

10. What is Vivian's initial morphine dosage?
(a) Ten an hour.
(b) As much as she feels she needs.
(c) Five an hour.
(d) Ten every half hour.

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

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

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

14. What does Vivian overhear two students mocking after a class?
(a) Her clothing.
(b) Her pronunciation.
(c) Her accent.
(d) Her use of a pointer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Vivian expect the medication to have on her?

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

3. What does Jason have to survive in order to begin his research?

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

5. What type of student usually asks the question Vivian is asked every year?

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