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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pavel refers to some of the other patients by their _________, as in the patients he calls Uz Becks.
(a) Workplace.
(b) Regional heritage.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Government.

2. Where does Sibgator decide to stay in order to keep himself comfortable when he is staying at the cancer ward?
(a) Nurses station.
(b) Hallway.
(c) His bed.
(d) A bathroom.

3. What does Kostoglotov ask to borrow from Zoya when they are flirting together at the nurses station?
(a) Medical textbook.
(b) Cigarette.
(c) Stethoscope.
(d) A bottle of water.

4. What does the chief surgeon in the cancer ward do which causes some to think she is not setting a good example?
(a) Sleep on the job.
(b) Ignore patients.
(c) Chain smoke.
(d) Reveal the diagnoses of patients.

5. What is the form of government that is in place at the time of the Soviet Union in the story?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Facist.
(c) Communist.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nellya is a(n) _________ who only does a part of her job, choosing instead to take a nap in the middle of her shift.

2. Dontsova is a person who is committed to _______ her patients and to being everything she can be to everyone in her life.

3. Who is the night nurse trying to get her work done, but there is too much work for her to do?

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

5. Who does Vera remember as being difficult even when he first started to stay in the cancer ward?

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