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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. Why does Jason want Susie to increase Vivian's hydration?
(a) To keep her kidneys from fading.
(b) To combat the effects of her chemotherapy.
(c) To ensure Vivian will get through her next treatment cycle.
(d) To keep her conscious.

2. How does Vivian get Susie to come into her room?
(a) She presses the call button.
(b) She pinches her IV tubing.
(c) She moans in pain.
(d) She coughs.

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

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

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 cries.
(c) She says she already knows.
(d) She laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prescribed Vivian's morphine drip?

2. What flavor of treat does Susie bring to Vivian?

3. How does the scene end when Vivian gets morphine?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Salvation Anxiety?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Vivian shut her own eyelids and cross her arms over her chest?

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

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

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

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