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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 would like her body donated to science.
(c) She does not want to be resuscitated if her heart stops.
(d) She would like to stop treatment.

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

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the larger aspects Donne addresses in his sonnets?
(a) Love.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) God.

4. What does Jason say Donne makes Shakespeare sound like?
(a) A children's song.
(b) Dr. Seuss.
(c) A Hallmark card.
(d) The alphabet.

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

6. What does Susie offer to get for Vivian to comfort her?
(a) A cup of pudding.
(b) A Popsicle.
(c) A dish of ice cream.
(d) Some juice.

7. Who asks Jason if he will miss people?
(a) Susie.
(b) His mother.
(c) Kelekian.
(d) Girls.

8. What does Vivian say she actually thinks would be a relief?
(a) Being at home.
(b) Being a cheerleader on Spring Break.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Being in her classroom.

9. Who closes Vivian's eyes after she is given her initial dose of morphine?
(a) Jason.
(b) Susie.
(c) Kelekian.
(d) Vivian.

10. What is the date of the sonnet Vivian recites when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1609.

11. What does Vivian apologize for before she is given more pain medication?
(a) The giddiness she will feel.
(b) Her incorrect interpretations of Donne sonnets that will result.
(c) The lack of coherence in the play that will result.
(d) Her swearing.

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

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

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

15. Vivian says, “What we have come to think of as me is, in fact, just the ____.”
(a) Adjective.
(b) Dressing.
(c) Research.
(d) Specimen jar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cycles of treatment has Vivian endured after her ultrasound?

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

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

4. How does Jason describe John Donne?

5. What reason does one of the students give when asked why Donne makes his sonnets complicated?

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