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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 react to the morphine as it takes effect?
(a) Her laughter turns to sighs.
(b) She holds Susie's hand.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She recites one of Donne's poems.

2. How does the scene end when Vivian gets morphine?
(a) Jason checks Vivian's I&O chart.
(b) Vivian thanks the audience for their attention.
(c) Vivian falls asleep.
(d) Kelekian takes Vivian's vitals.

3. What effect does Vivian expect the medication to have on her?
(a) Slumberous.
(b) Soporific.
(c) Somnolent.
(d) Somneriferous.

4. What is Vivian's initial morphine dosage?
(a) Ten every half hour.
(b) Ten an hour.
(c) Five an hour.
(d) As much as she feels she needs.

5. What test does Vivian have to have done when she is interrupted while she imagines she is teaching?
(a) A chest x-ray.
(b) A pelvic exam.
(c) An ultrasound.
(d) A GI series.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason say Donne makes Shakespeare sound like?

2. What does Vivian say is the trouble when she breaks down in tears?

3. What does Jason have to survive in order to begin his research?

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

5. What word does Vivian define for Susie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Vivian scared?

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

6. Why does Vivian tell the audience that “now is the time for kindness?”

7. Why does Susie tell Vivian that she and Jason are inserting a catheter even though she can't hear Susie?

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

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

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

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