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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a student ask Vivian for after a class?
(a) The definition of a word.
(b) An extension on a deadline.
(c) An explanation of a particular line.
(d) Her mentorship.

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

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

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

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

6. How does Jason describe clinicians?
(a) As stuff-shirts.
(b) As rats.
(c) As troglodytes.
(d) As amoebas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the date of the sonnet Vivian recites when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1603.

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

15. How does Vivian respond when the student asks her for a favor?
(a) She declines the student’s request.
(b) She grants the favor.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She refuses to answer the question.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a lot of the students think of Vivian, according to Jason?

2. How does Jason describe cancer?

3. What does Jason say Donne makes Shakespeare sound like?

4. Who convinces Vivian to go to her test when she imagines she is teaching?

5. How does Vivian react when she is told about what Susie and Jason are doing?

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