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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) 1603.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1611.

2. What did a lot of the students think of Vivian, according to Jason?
(a) They tolerated her.
(b) They respected her.
(c) They adored her.
(d) They hated her.

3. What level of fluids does Jason tell Vivian to push for each day?
(a) 300.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

4. How does Vivian say some would describe her in everything she has done?
(a) Resolute.
(b) Extreme.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Steadfast.

5. What question is Vivian asked every year by a student?
(a) Why are the sonnets “holy?”
(b) Why does Donne make everything so complicated?
(c) Where did Donne come up with his ideas?
(d) Why are the sonnets “holy?”

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day was it when Vivian got Susie to come in her room at the opening of Scene 13?

2. What does Jason say the Holy Sonnets are about?

3. What kind of medication does Susie say Vivian will get?

4. How does Jason describe clinicians?

5. Why does Vivian wander the stage at the end of Scene 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Salvation Anxiety?

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

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

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

6. Why is it significant that someone always asked Vivian why Donne made his sonnets so complicated?

7. Why does Jason simplify the explanation of Vivian's kidney function?

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

9. Why is Vivian given a morphine drip instead of patient-controlled analgesic?

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

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