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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dontsova travel to and from the hospital?
(a) Bus.
(b) Train.
(c) By foot.
(d) Car.

2. Who is the author of the short stories that Yefrem is reading, which causes Pavel to laugh?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Romanchekov.
(d) Blurga.

3. Chaly admits that he has _________ when he comes back into the room with the other patients.
(a) Two wives.
(b) Upset the government.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A boyfriend.

4. How many injections has Pavel had at this point of the story, though they are helping his tumor shrink?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

5. What is Dontsova's excuse for not being able to finish a project on which she has been working for a long time?
(a) No energy.
(b) She doesn't care about it anymore.
(c) No time.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pavel refers to some of the other patients by their _________, as in the patients he calls Uz Becks.

2. Pavel hints at the fact that Shulubin is not a _________, to which Shulubin responds 'on the contrary.'

3. What does Yefrem decide the answer to the question of what do men live by is?

4. Aviette talks about how one should tell others of the _____________ in life, rather than to talk about the opposite side of life.

5. What does Pavel receive after he has had a chance to read the paper after Oleg reads it?

(see the answer key)

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