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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pavel learns that Rodichev has been ________ and that he is now returning to the town.
(a) Put into power once more.
(b) Cleared of all charges.
(c) Killed.
(d) Rehabilitated.

2. Dontsova is concerned about patients who have experienced ____________, even as they were treated in other parts of their bodies.
(a) Radiation sickness.
(b) Cures.
(c) Infections.
(d) Insomnia.

3. Dontsova is compared to a(n)on _________ which is overworked and overused, according to the text in the book.
(a) Hospital.
(b) X-ray machine.
(c) Patient.
(d) Book.

4. Yefrem is described as feeling his _______ receding as a part of the disease he is faced with in the story.
(a) Spirit.
(b) Memories.
(c) Family.
(d) Connections.

5. What is Dontsova also trying to complete, though she doesn't seem to have the time for this assignment?
(a) Journal.
(b) Case study.
(c) Book.
(d) Thesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zoya enlist to help her with the administrative duties she needs to do?

2. What is Dontsova's excuse for not being able to finish a project on which she has been working for a long time?

3. Pavel assigns ________ to the other patients on the ward after they begin to make fun of him for thinking he doesn't have cancer.

4. What is Pavel allowed to wear, which is the only concession in his stay at the hospital?

5. Dyomka and the new man are talking about _________ when this particular chapter begins.

(see the answer key)

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