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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vera learns there will be an ________ the next day so the hospital staff needs to put away anything that was not a part of what was issued to the hospital.

2. What are Oleg and Zoya filling up in the supply room when they suddenly begin kissing each other?

3. Who did Pavel put into a school as a result of sending away the child of the woman in the dream?

4. What does Dontsova decide to grab on her way home from the hospital?

5. Who can read a little Latin, which allows him to decipher that one patient has an untreatable tumor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Pavel learn from his doctor when he asks about his health condition?

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

5. What does Pavel do with the other patients in the ward since he does not want to learn their names when he sees them?

6. Why is the administrative assistant Olympiada going to be away from the hospital for a few days?

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dontsova is committed to the healing of her patients, using up her energy and her time to help them before helping herself.

Part 1: Why do you think some doctors are committed to their patients and others are not?

Part 2: How do you think a patient might be able to find a helpful doctor?

Part 3: Do you think that all doctors should be as concerned about their patients as Dontsova?

Essay Topic 2

The doctors and nurses are unable to tell the patients that they are dying, even if that information is in their medical records.

Part 1: Why do you think telling patients about their health is not allowed?

Part 2: Would you want to know if you were dying? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think not telling the patients they are dying helps those on the cancer ward?

Essay Topic 3

The senior surgeon, Yevgenia Ustinovna, smokes constantly and even uses two fingers to raise her lips.

Part 1: Do you think that a doctor should smoke?

Part 2: Would you want to be under the care of a physician who is always smoking?

Part 3: Do you think that all doctors should be examples for their patients, in terms of healthy habits?

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