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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “it” signify when Vivian explains the need for aggressive pain management?
(a) Pain.
(b) Being alive.
(c) Comfort.
(d) The medications she takes.

2. What is the last thing Vivian says to the audience?
(a) “I'm just so tired.”
(b) “I'm sorry.”
(c) “Good night.”
(d) “I want to go home.”

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

4. How does Vivian react when Susie tells her the effect the medication will have on her?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She cries.
(c) She says she already knows.
(d) She says she doesn't care.

5. How does Vivian react when she is told about what Susie and Jason are doing?
(a) She agrees to the procedure.
(b) She does not react.
(c) She refuses the procedure.
(d) She cries.

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

7. What did a lot of the students think of Vivian, according to Jason?
(a) They hated her.
(b) They tolerated her.
(c) They adored her.
(d) They respected her.

8. How does Vivian describe the level of her sickness after her ultrasound?
(a) Terminally sick.
(b) Understatedly sick.
(c) Overwhelmingly sick.
(d) Ultimately sick.

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. Why does Vivian wander the stage at the end of Scene 12?
(a) A scene change is occurring behind her.
(b) She is looking for her hospital room.
(c) She is trying to think of something.
(d) She is imagining she is lecturing.

11. How is Vivian's medication administered?
(a) With a pump.
(b) Using her IV.
(c) In a drip.
(d) With a syringe.

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

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

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

15. What does Vivian say about her peritoneal cavity?
(a) It is crawling with cancer.
(b) It has been removed.
(c) There is no trace of cancer.
(d) Only one tumor remains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Susie say the medication will have on Vivian?

2. How do Jason and Kelekian feel about how Vivian's treatment has gone?

3. What poem does Vivian quote in her final coherent lines of the play?

4. What kind of medication does Susie say Vivian will get?

5. What flavor of treat does Susie bring to Vivian?

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