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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does “it” signify when Vivian explains the need for aggressive pain management?
(a) Being alive.
(b) The medications she takes.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Pain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who does Vivian say is the greatest wit?
(a) Herself.
(b) E. M. Ashford.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Susie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?

2. Who asks Jason if he will miss people?

3. What does Jason come in to Vivian's room to check at the beginning of Scene 11?

4. How does Vivian respond when the student asks her for a favor?

5. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?

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