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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Oleg and Zoya filling up in the supply room when they suddenly begin kissing each other?
(a) Medication.
(b) Bandages.
(c) Saline bags.
(d) Oxygen.

2. What does Yefrem decide he needs to tell all of the patients on the ward as a part of his life's mission?
(a) They are being told lies.
(b) They are going to die.
(c) He is going to die.
(d) They are all a part of the system.

3. What does Oleg reveal to be his status in the country when he is speaking with Zoya after she gets off work?
(a) Prisoner.
(b) Administrative exile.
(c) Criminal exile.
(d) Political exile.

4. How old is Vadim when he comes to the ward, knowing that he only has months to live?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 26.
(d) 45.

5. What does Vadim feel he has to contribute to the world during his short time on the planet?
(a) A scientific discovery.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His laugh.
(d) His smile.

6. Where is the cancer that Sibgator has, causing him to be in extreme pain most of the time?
(a) His arm.
(b) His neck.
(c) His stomach.
(d) His back.

7. How many other patients are assigned to the ward that Pavel is assigned to, though he does not care to know them?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two.

8. Vera tells Pavel that he can have a(n) _________ at 11:30am that day or he can choose to check out.
(a) Meal.
(b) X-ray.
(c) Walk.
(d) Injection.

9. What does Yefrem decide the answer to the question of what do men live by is?
(a) Peace.
(b) Time.
(c) Love.
(d) Community.

10. Who does Vera remember as being difficult even when he first started to stay in the cancer ward?
(a) Oleg.
(b) Vadim.
(c) Kosto.
(d) Olympiada.

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

12. What is the nickname that is assigned to Kostoglotov by Pavel when Pavel first meets this person?
(a) Bone crusher.
(b) Dark hunter.
(c) Demon man.
(d) Mad hatter.

13. Dontsova is a person who is committed to _______ her patients and to being everything she can be to everyone in her life.
(a) Healing.
(b) Loving.
(c) Ignoring.
(d) Supporting.

14. The nurse says there is no one to whom she could give the ________, even if she could take it from Pavel.
(a) Money.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Food.
(d) Book.

15. What is Zoya studying in the book when she is talking with the other patients?
(a) Obstetrics.
(b) Tumors.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Injuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oleg believe Zoya looks like when she takes off her nurse's cap?

2. How does Dontsova travel to and from the hospital?

3. Who tells the women physicians that he is ready to go home, as he often tells them during his time on the ward?

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

5. What does Kostoglotov ask to borrow from Zoya when they are flirting together at the nurses station?

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