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

2. What does Vivian say she is supposed to think is a relief?
(a) Being able to drink juice.
(b) Being finished with her treatment.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Getting back to her room after the tests.

3. Who interrupts Vivian's lecture when she imagines she is teaching?
(a) Kelekian.
(b) Susie.
(c) Jason.
(d) Ashford.

4. How does Vivian react when she is told about what Susie and Jason are doing?
(a) She refuses the procedure.
(b) She does not react.
(c) She agrees to the procedure.
(d) She cries.

5. What does Vivian say about her peritoneal cavity?
(a) It has been removed.
(b) It is crawling with cancer.
(c) Only one tumor remains.
(d) There is no trace of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Vivian define for Susie?

2. What phrase does Jason use to explain the constant growth of cancer cells?

3. What does Susie tell Vivian about her cancer?

4. What is Susie glad Vivian did when she gives Vivian the morphine?

5. What does Susie call Vivian when she comes into her room to take care of the alarm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Vivian surviving eight cycles of chemotherapy at the full dosage?

2. How does Vivian compare a true believer with the speaker of the sonnet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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