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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. 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.

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

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

4. What does Susie tell Vivian about her cancer?
(a) It is in remission.
(b) It has not changed since her diagnosis.
(c) It has spread to her brain.
(d) It is not being cured.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vivian says, “What we have come to think of as me is, in fact, just the ____.”

2. What does Susie want to discuss with Vivian?

3. What does a technician hand Vivian when she imagines she is giving a lecture?

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

5. What does Vivian say the reader of the sonnet wants to do to the speaker when she imagines she is teaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Vivian given a morphine drip instead of patient-controlled analgesic?

2. Why does Jason simplify the explanation of Vivian's kidney function?

3. Why does Vivian use the word “soporific” when she asks about the effect of the morphine?

4. Why does Vivian shut her own eyelids and cross her arms over her chest?

5. How do Jason and Susie's views of Vivian compare and contrast?

6. Why does Susie tell Vivian that she and Jason are inserting a catheter even though she can't hear Susie?

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

8. Why does Vivian recite the sonnet beginning “This is my playes last scene?”

9. Why is Vivian scared?

10. What two options did Vivian have when a student's comment contained an insightful seed? What were the possible consequences of each?

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