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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pavel want his wife to research when she goes back home from the hospital?
(a) Birch tree fungus.
(b) Radiation sickness.
(c) His government position.
(d) Vera and Dontsova.

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

3. Where is Pavel told to go to when he answers the phone as a part of his dream?
(a) Home.
(b) Jail.
(c) Cancer ward.
(d) Supreme Court.

4. In the dream, Pavel is told by a woman that he is the man who made her husband ________ over the years.
(a) Angry.
(b) Disappear.
(c) Be promoted.
(d) Die.

5. Who can read a little Latin, which allows him to decipher that one patient has an untreatable tumor?
(a) Yefrem.
(b) Pavel.
(c) Vadim.
(d) Oleg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yefrem believes the men should be talking about what a man's ________ is for, instead of talking about other nonsense.

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

3. Who comes with Kapa to drop Pavel off at the hospital when he is admitted to the cancer ward?

4. The nurse says there is no one to whom she could give the ________, even if she could take it from Pavel.

5. Yefrem doesn't listen to Pavel because he is thinking more about his _________ than anything else.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sibgator decide that he wants to stand in the hallway instead of having a bed like everyone else in the ward?

2. What happens as a result of Pavel and his wife making a number of calls before Pavel is admitted to the cancer ward?

3. Why has Zoya decided to wear a particular dress on the day that starts out this section of the book?

4. What does Kapa try to give to the nurse, though the nurse says that she cannot accept this from her?

5. What is the title of the story that most intrigues Yefrem in the collection of stories he is reading?

6. What does Pavel find out in the paper when he finally gets a chance to read it after Oleg is done?

7. Why was Oleg never told about the original biopsies of his primary tumor?

8. How does Zoya break the rules with the other patients in the ward after Kostoglotov asks to see her books?

9. Why does the head man want to throw Oleg out of the hospital during the inspection?

10. What does Pavel almost forget to tell his wife during their Sunday visit at the hospital?

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