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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susie call Vivian when she comes into her room to take care of the alarm?
(a) Hon.
(b) Sweetheart.
(c) Darlin'.
(d) Sugar.

2. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?
(a) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(b) Where did Donne come up with his ideas?
(c) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(d) Why does Donne make everything so complicated?

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

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

5. How does Vivian react to the morphine as it takes effect?
(a) She recites one of Donne's poems.
(b) Her laughter turns to sighs.
(c) She holds Susie's hand.
(d) She begins to cry.

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

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

8. What reason does Vivian give for her explanation?
(a) She once had someone explain it to her.
(b) She does not want Susie to feel ignored.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She wants Susie to understand why she makes the decisions she does.

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

10. What time of day was it when Vivian got Susie to come in her room at the opening of Scene 13?
(a) The time of day is not given.
(b) Sometime before breakfast.
(c) Around lunchtime.
(d) Late at night.

11. What phrase does Jason use to explain the constant growth of cancer cells?
(a) Immortality in culture.
(b) Cellular colonialization.
(c) Invasion.
(d) Assimilation.

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

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

14. What does Jason come in to Vivian's room to check at the beginning of Scene 11?
(a) Her I&O chart.
(b) Her medication.
(c) Her breathing.
(d) Her vitals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Vivian's medication administered?

2. What does Susie offer to get for Vivian to comfort her?

3. What is Susie glad Vivian did when she gives Vivian the morphine?

4. What did a lot of the students think of Vivian, according to Jason?

5. What question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?

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