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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Lev seek out in order to find a better conversation than the one that is happening in the private room?
(a) Oleg.
(b) Zoya.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Vera.

2. What is the treatment that Vadim receives when he is first admitted to the cancer ward?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Birch bark fungus.
(c) X-ray.
(d) Nothing.

3. When Pavel talks to his doctor about his condition, his doctor tells him that he does not have ___________.
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) A chance.
(c) To worry about medication.
(d) Cancer.

4. How does Zoya get to her job at the hospital ward, according to the story?
(a) Her car.
(b) A friend drives her.
(c) Trolley.
(d) By foot.

5. While it is the second anniversary of _______ death, there is only a small article in the paper about this event, which disappoints Pavel.
(a) Hitler's.
(b) Stalin's.
(c) Mussolini's.
(d) Lenin's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pavel learns that Rodichev has been ________ and that he is now returning to the town.

2. Who does not agree that justice was done in terms of the truck driver situation?

3. Who looks at the patients with contempt and refuses to learn more about them?

4. Vera allows people to assume she has a _________ since she feels it would be embarrassing to admit otherwise.

5. Dontsova is compared to a(n)on _________ which is overworked and overused, according to the text in the book.

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