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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Jason and Kelekian feel about how Vivian's treatment has gone?
(a) They are concerned.
(b) They are not saying much about it.
(c) They are delighted.
(d) They are optimistic.

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

3. What does a technician hand Vivian when she imagines she is giving a lecture?
(a) A sheaf of papers.
(b) Her glasses.
(c) A book.
(d) A pointer.

4. What does Vivian guess is the reason the student asks a favor of her?
(a) She is sucking up to Vivian.
(b) Her grandmother has died.
(c) She truly wants to learn.
(d) Her previous mentor has retired.

5. How does Jason describe Vivian's seventeenth-century poetry course?
(a) Like boot camp.
(b) Like learning a language without a dictionary.
(c) Like showing up to class in your underwear.
(d) Like his first patient.

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

7. 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.

8. What word does Vivian define for Susie?
(a) Soporific.
(b) Somnolent.
(c) Slumberous.
(d) Somneriferous.

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

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

11. What poem does Vivian quote in her final coherent lines of the play?
(a) The Day of Rain.
(b) Holy Sonnet Six.
(c) Lady Lazarus.
(d) She Sleeps.

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

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

15. Who interrupts Vivian's lecture when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Ashford.
(b) Jason.
(c) Susie.
(d) Kelekian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivian decide about the issue Susie discusses with her?

2. What is the last thing Vivian says to the audience?

3. Who does Vivian say is the greatest wit?

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

5. Who prescribed Vivian's morphine drip?

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