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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Vivian's initial morphine dosage?
(a) Ten an hour.
(b) Ten every half hour.
(c) As much as she feels she needs.
(d) Five an hour.

4. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Sonnet Fifteen.
(b) Sonnet Five.
(c) Sonnet Six.
(d) Sonnet Three.

5. What question does Jason ask Vivian to check her mental status?
(a) “How are you feeling today?”
(b) “What day is it?”
(c) “Do you know where you are?”
(d) “Who is the President of the United States?”

6. What is Susie glad Vivian did when she gives Vivian the morphine?
(a) Stood up for her rights as a patient.
(b) Explained what was funny.
(c) Trusted her.
(d) Allowed herself to cry.

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

8. What does Vivian overhear two students mocking after a class?
(a) Her clothing.
(b) Her use of a pointer.
(c) Her accent.
(d) Her pronunciation.

9. What kind of medication does Susie say Vivian will get?
(a) Not so much that she will be unconscious.
(b) Patient-controlled.
(c) Constant.
(d) Aggressive.

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

11. What does Vivian say the reader of the sonnet wants to do to the speaker when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Hide from him.
(b) Correct him.
(c) Join him.
(d) Condemn him.

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

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

14. What does Jason have to survive in order to begin his research?
(a) A year of working in his father's clinic.
(b) His fourth year of classes.
(c) His fellowship.
(d) His final exam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of the poem Vivian recites after her ultrasound?

2. How does Jason know Vivian's kidneys are functioning properly?

3. How does Jason describe cancer?

4. What phrase does Jason use to explain the constant growth of cancer cells?

5. What does a student ask Vivian for after a class?

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