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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When ________ comes back, Oleg decides to have the transfusion anyway since he trusts this person more.
(a) Vera.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Zoya.
(d) Dontsova.

3. Whose mother has found the special treatment for his cancer, and she is sending it through channels?
(a) Lev.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Oleg.
(d) Vadim.

4. Who is the surgeon that operates on Dyomka's back during the story, according to the text?
(a) Lev.
(b) Dontsova.
(c) Pavelkov.
(d) Vera.

5. __________ wants to get healthy, return to his village, marry, and have children, according to his plans.
(a) Proshka.
(b) Vadim.
(c) Dyomka.
(d) Oleg.

6. Who walks the halls because he cannot sleep in his bed before he is released?
(a) Dyomka.
(b) Lev.
(c) Vadim.
(d) Oleg.

7. _________ comes out to see the family car when Pavel is taken back home by his family.
(a) Oleg.
(b) Dyomka.
(c) Vadim.
(d) Chaly.

8. What does Chaly offer to Pavel before they begin to talk about their lives in more detail?
(a) Birch bark fungus.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Water.

9. _________ is always quiet, walking around the ward, listening to all of the conversations, but not contributing to them.
(a) Zadim.
(b) Federau.
(c) Shulubin.
(d) Oleg.

10. Aviette talks about how one should tell others of the _____________ in life, rather than to talk about the opposite side of life.
(a) Good things.
(b) Mercies.
(c) Bribes.
(d) Bad things.

11. One of the ________ was exiled as well and lost her daughter in the process.
(a) Government officials.
(b) Orderlies.
(c) Patients.
(d) Nurses.

12. What is the reaction of the two women who were given the punishment they were given by Yuri for stealing?
(a) Appreciation.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sadness.

13. To what does Dyomka finally agree in order to be moved out of the ward?
(a) To having more injections.
(b) To being cured.
(c) Operation.
(d) To no more treatments.

14. The Kadmins, Oleg remembers, only found _______ in everything that happened to them.
(a) Destruction.
(b) Pain.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anguish.

15. Which of the patients is told that she will need to have her breast cut off in order to be saved?
(a) Dontsova.
(b) Asya.
(c) Ayla.
(d) Vera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Oleg go in order to go back to Ush-Terek?

2. What does Chaly offer to give to Pavel if Pavel gives him his phone number?

3. Who begins to make preparations for a card game with Pavel and the others?

4. At the start of this section, who is walking the grounds of the hospital, remembering where he used to live?

5. Oleg was in a situation where the _______________ were used only for the privileged in society.

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