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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 reason does Vivian give for her explanation?
(a) She once had someone explain it to her.
(b) She wants Susie to understand why she makes the decisions she does.
(c) She does not want Susie to feel ignored.
(d) She is a teacher.

2. How does Jason describe Vivian's seventeenth-century poetry course?
(a) Like boot camp.
(b) Like showing up to class in your underwear.
(c) Like learning a language without a dictionary.
(d) Like his first patient.

3. What does Susie tell Vivian about her cancer?
(a) It has spread to her brain.
(b) It is in remission.
(c) It is not being cured.
(d) It has not changed since her diagnosis.

4. What does Susie rub on Vivian's hands?
(a) Water.
(b) Baby powder.
(c) Baby oil.
(d) Lotion.

5. What does Vivian say is the trouble when she breaks down in tears?
(a) She wants to go home.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is scared.
(d) She does not understand why she got cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vivian say she actually thinks would be a relief?

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

3. Why does Jason say Vivian is not given patient-controlled medication?

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

5. What does Vivian say the reader of the sonnet wants to do to the speaker when she imagines she is teaching?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the three points Vivian emphasizes in Donne's poem during her imaginary lecture?

3. Why does Vivian recite the sonnet beginning “This is my playes last scene?”

4. Does Donne ever understand his Salvation Anxiety? Why or why not?

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

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

7. What is the significance of Vivian noting to Susie that she is a teacher after they share a laugh?

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

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

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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