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

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

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

4. Which of the Holy Sonnets does Vivian recite when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Sonnet Three.
(b) Sonnet Six.
(c) Sonnet Fifteen.
(d) Sonnet Five.

5. 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 refuses to answer the question.
(d) She laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Vivian give for her explanation?

2. Who interrupts Vivian's lecture when she imagines she is teaching?

3. What poem does Vivian quote in her final coherent lines of the play?

4. How does Jason describe cancer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Vivian so upset at her imaginary lecture being interrupted by Susie?

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

3. What is Salvation Anxiety?

4. Why does Vivian tell the audience that “now is the time for kindness?”

5. Why does Vivian make her bed alarm go off in the middle of the night?

6. What is the joke that makes Vivian laugh when Susie gives her morphine?

7. What is Vivian trying to think of when she reminisces about her interactions with students?

8. Why is Vivian scared?

9. Why does Vivian's pain management have an effect on the play?

10. Explain Vivian's reaction to hearing two students mock her after class.

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