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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 Zoya tell Oleg not to take so that he can be able to maintain his virility when they have a chance to be together?
(a) Water.
(b) Any more pills.
(c) Food.
(d) Injections.

2. The tumor that Pavel has prevents him from being able to ____________, which causes him to change the way he interacts with others.
(a) Smile.
(b) Move his body.
(c) Turn from side to side.
(d) Lift his arm.

3. Where was Oleg first when he was diagnosed with cancer, though he was not told of his test results?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Field hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) Home.

4. What is the number of the ward that Pavel is directed to when he arrives at the hospital?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

5. The men constantly think about how difficult it was for them to get ___________ to the cancer ward.
(a) Admitted.
(b) Money to go.
(c) Moved.
(d) Released.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oleg feels very ______ when he is talking with Zoya openly and honestly.

2. What does Yefrem decide the answer to the question of what do men live by is?

3. _________ is a very strong man, a construction worker who travels all over the Soviet Union to do the hardest work.

4. Who does Zoya enlist to help her with the administrative duties she needs to do?

5. When Pavel talks to his doctor about his condition, his doctor tells him that he does not have ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the orderly do though she has only completed a part of her job?

5. Why does Zoya have trouble getting her work done when she is on shift at the hospital?

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

7. What is the only concession that Pavel is allowed when he is entered into the cancer ward along with the other patients?

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

9. What is the advice that Oleg gives to Zoya when they are talking at the nurses station?

10. When the new man and Dyomka are talking in the ward, what does one of the men say it is better to do than to die?

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