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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. Dontsova is concerned about patients who have experienced ____________, even as they were treated in other parts of their bodies.
(a) Infections.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Cures.
(d) Radiation sickness.

2. Who looks at the patients with contempt and refuses to learn more about them?
(a) Zoya.
(b) Dontsova.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Oleg.

3. Dontsova is a person who is committed to _______ her patients and to being everything she can be to everyone in her life.
(a) Loving.
(b) Healing.
(c) Ignoring.
(d) Supporting.

4. Who tells the women physicians that he is ready to go home, as he often tells them during his time on the ward?
(a) Pavel.
(b) Vadim.
(c) Dyomka.
(d) Oleg.

5. What does Oleg reveal to be his status in the country when he is speaking with Zoya after she gets off work?
(a) Criminal exile.
(b) Administrative exile.
(c) Prisoner.
(d) Political exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to get the political trip canceled several times, but is unsuccessful in doing so?

2. What does Oleg believe Zoya looks like when she takes off her nurse's cap?

3. What does the nurse bring to the ward that Pavel wants to see before anyone else?

4. Pavel refers to some of the other patients by their _________, as in the patients he calls Uz Becks.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ustinovna do when she is not smoking a cigarette, which shows that she is a heavy smoker?

5. What does the new man say that life is for when Yefrem joins the conversation?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the physical symptom that Dontsova is experiencing though she does not tell anyone about it?

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