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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last thing Vivian says to the audience?
(a) “I'm sorry.”
(b) “I want to go home.”
(c) “Good night.”
(d) “I'm just so tired.”

2. What type of student usually asks the question Vivian is asked every year?
(a) One of the students who ends up working as a teaching assistant.
(b) One of the students taking the class as an elective.
(c) One of the smart ones.
(d) One of the non-traditional students.

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

4. 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 does not want to be resuscitated if her heart stops.
(c) She would like her body donated to science.
(d) She would like to stop treatment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Jason if he will miss people?

2. How does Susie react when Vivian explains her reaction?

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

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

5. What does one student say Donne is hiding behind in his sonnets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vivian allow Susie to call her “sweetheart?”

2. Why is Vivian unable to explain to the audience what she is going through before she receives morphine?

3. Why does Susie tell Vivian that she and Jason are inserting a catheter even though she can't hear Susie?

4. What two options did Vivian have when a student's comment contained an insightful seed? What were the possible consequences of each?

5. What are the three points Vivian emphasizes in Donne's poem during her imaginary lecture?

6. Why does Vivian feel her recitation of Donne is “wrong” in her last coherent lines?

7. What is the parallel between Vivian and Jason's careers?

8. What is the irony in Vivian's desire for personal contact with Jason?

9. Why does Vivian use the word “soporific” when she asks about the effect of the morphine?

10. Why does Vivian think of herself as “just the specimen jar?”

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