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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Jason and Kelekian feel about how Vivian's treatment has gone?

3. What does “it” signify when Vivian explains the need for aggressive pain management?

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

5. How does Vivian say she likes the poem she recites after her ultrasound?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Salvation Anxiety?

4. How do Jason and Susie's views of Vivian compare and contrast?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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