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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. Who tries to get the political trip canceled several times, but is unsuccessful in doing so?
(a) Vera.
(b) Dontsova.
(c) Zoya.
(d) Olympiada.

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

3. Whose magic root needs to be poured out in order to avoid being found by the authorities?
(a) Pavel's.
(b) No one's.
(c) Oleg's.
(d) Yefrem's.

4. Vera allows people to assume she has a _________ since she feels it would be embarrassing to admit otherwise.
(a) Medical degree.
(b) Education.
(c) License.
(d) Husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nellya is a(n) _________ who only does a part of her job, choosing instead to take a nap in the middle of her shift.

2. The other patients make fun of Pavel as they ask him why he is on the ___________ if he does not have cancer.

3. Pavel is ________ of his wife and of his station in life and is appalled by his treatment in the hospital.

4. The surgeon tells Proshka that she will explain his _________ to him before his discharge from the cancer ward.

5. Where is the cancer that Sibgator has, causing him to be in extreme pain most of the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dontsova have far more radiation in her body than is healthy for a person to have?

2. Why is Pavel furious when Oleg takes the paper when it is delivered by a nurse?

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

4. What is another way that Pavel decides to categorize the other patients in the ward with him, aside from the answer to #5?

5. What does Yefrem consider to be a personal goal of his when he is in the cancer ward?

6. Why did Oleg come to the hospital in the first place, according to his conversation with others?

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

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

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

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

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