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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) He does not know how complicated his sonnets are.
(c) Because he is hiding.
(d) To sound smarter.

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. What is the date of the poem Vivian recites after her ultrasound?
(a) 1608.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1610.

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

9. What effect does Vivian expect the medication to have on her?
(a) Somneriferous.
(b) Soporific.
(c) Somnolent.
(d) Slumberous.

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

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

12. How does Vivian get Susie to come into her room?
(a) She coughs.
(b) She moans in pain.
(c) She pinches her IV tubing.
(d) She presses the call button.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will Jason and Kelekian's journal article be about?

3. What does Vivian say she is supposed to think is a relief?

4. Vivian says, “What we have come to think of as me is, in fact, just the ____.”

5. What type of student usually asks the question Vivian is asked every year?

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