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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the phrase that Aviette believes is improper to use when she is talking with her father?
(a) Cult of personality.
(b) Amnesty.
(c) Deserter.
(d) Honor.

3. Who does Pavel now lay beside since he is in too much pain to fight or to argue?
(a) Oleg.
(b) Proshka.
(c) Dyomka.
(d) Vadim.

4. Who does not agree that justice was done in terms of the truck driver situation?
(a) Yuri.
(b) Oleg.
(c) Vera.
(d) Pavel.

5. Oleg protests with the transfusion he is about to be given because he believes the blood is _________.
(a) Old.
(b) The wrong type.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Not helping.

6. Who begins to make preparations for a card game with Pavel and the others?
(a) Oleg.
(b) Vadim.
(c) Chaly.
(d) Dyomka.

7. Lev points out that birch tree fungus is all the rage in ________, according to the medical world.
(a) Moscow.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Stalingrad.
(d) Leningrad.

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

9. Who has become one of Oleg's adversaries at this point of the story?
(a) Federau.
(b) Atienne.
(c) Vadim.
(d) Lev.

10. __________ cannot believe millions of Soviets actually believe the lies that are coming from the government.
(a) Pavel.
(b) Lev.
(c) Vadim.
(d) Shulubin.

11. What does Oleg decide to buy for Vera when he begins to go to her house to see her?
(a) Violets.
(b) Wine.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Roses.

12. What will Dontsova not read because she doesn't want to know what they say about her?
(a) X-rays.
(b) Progress notes.
(c) Lab reports.
(d) Books.

13. What does Vera reveal about Dontsova when she is talking to Lev during this section?
(a) She is leaving.
(b) She is being promoted.
(c) She is unqualified.
(d) She has cancer.

14. How many years in prison was the truck driver's sentence when the loss in the truck was discovered?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) He didn't get into trouble.
(d) 10 years.

15. What treatment has left Oleg feeling run down and less able to take the walks he used to take in the grounds?
(a) Lack of treatment.
(b) X-ray.
(c) Drug.
(d) Injection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the doctor whose house Donstova visits at the start of this section?

2. __________ wants to get healthy, return to his village, marry, and have children, according to his plans.

3. What does Chaly offer to Pavel before they begin to talk about their lives in more detail?

4. Who is the surgeon that operates on Dyomka's back during the story, according to the text?

5. Who believes himself to be completely cured at this point of the story?

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