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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. Yefrem is described as feeling his _______ receding as a part of the disease he is faced with in the story.

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

3. What is the number of the ward that Pavel is directed to when he arrives at the hospital?

4. Dyomka and the new man are talking about _________ when this particular chapter begins.

5. Which of the patients is announced to have died during this portion of the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zoya is a nurse who has too many patients and not enough support to help them all as much as they need to be helped.

Part 1: Why do you think a hospital would employ fewer nurses than they need?

Part 2: How do you think the care of patients is affected by not having enough nurses available?

Part 3: Do you think that Zoya and other nurses are working as hard as they could to cover the extra patients?

Essay Topic 2

In his cancer treatment, Pavel is able to wear different things that the other patients, as well as to use a private room.

Part 1: Do you think that cancer can be treated more easily when a patient has certain creature comforts?

Part 2: How do you think the other patients felt about Pavel having the extra attention and perks?

Part 3: Why do you think Pavel felt that he needed to have better treatment than the other patients?

Essay Topic 3

Pavel is concerned about his daughter becoming a writer, thinking that she might be better off doing something else.

Part 1: Why do you think that Pavel is concerned about his child becoming a writer?

Part 2: How do you think Aviette's life would change if she became a writer?

Part 3: Why do you think parents have troubles with not being able to control the actions of their children?

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