View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susie react when Vivian explains her reaction?
(a) She gives her a hug.
(b) She cries with her.
(c) She giggles.
(d) She offers her some juice.

2. What will Jason and Kelekian's journal article be about?
(a) The effects of Hexamethophosphacil and Vinplatin.
(b) Vivian's ovaries.
(c) Vivian.
(d) Vivian's lungs.

3. Who tells Vivian what Susie and Jason are doing?
(a) Kelekian.
(b) A Technician.
(c) Jason.
(d) Susie.

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

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

6. What does Vivian compare herself to when she says she wants to explain but is unable?
(a) A Donne sonnet.
(b) A student.
(c) A bird.
(d) A toddler.

7. How does Jason describe John Donne?
(a) Enigmatic.
(b) Intense.
(c) Perplexing.
(d) Irritating.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What question does Vivian ask Jason when he visits her room in Scene 11?
(a) Why he took her poetry class.
(b) What hospital he wants to pursue his research.
(c) Why he does not like patients.
(d) Why he chose cancer research.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jason have to survive in order to begin his research?

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

4. What level of fluids does Jason tell Vivian to push for each day?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 486 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample