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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the problem with the translation Vivian used?
(a) The adjectives are missing.
(b) The punctuation.
(c) The meter.
(d) It was renounced by scholars.

2. How does Vivian handle unfamiliar medical terms?
(a) She analyzes them by breaking them down.
(b) She pretends she understands.
(c) She asks Susie.
(d) She looks them up.

3. What course does Jason think is a colossal waste of time for researchers?
(a) Clinicals that require patient interaction.
(b) End-of-life Ethics.
(c) Bedside manner.
(d) Seventeenth-century poetry.

4. How would Vivian tell her students to think of her situation?
(a) As allusion.
(b) As irony.
(c) As a puzzle.
(d) As wit.

5. What does Vivian decide about the issue Susie discusses with her?
(a) She would like to hire a live-in nurse instead of going to a transitional care facility.
(b) She does not want to be resuscitated if her heart stops.
(c) She would like her body donated to science.
(d) She would like to stop treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published Vivian's dissertation?

2. How does Vivian respond when the student asks her for a favor?

3. What author does Vivian quote at the end of Scene 1?

4. What level of fluids does Jason tell Vivian to push for each day?

5. Who is Kelekian?

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