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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. What does Pavel want his wife to research when she goes back home from the hospital?

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

3. What does Zoya like to do when she is not actively helping patients on the ward or studying for school?

4. Kapa tells Pavel she has received a letter from his ________ which brings Pavel bad news about the town.

5. Who is the night nurse trying to get her work done, but there is too much work for her to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Vera tell Pavel when he begins to get upset with the others in the room?

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

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

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

7. What does Zoya learn about the status of Oleg when they are talking in the doctor's lounge?

8. With what does Zoya ask Oleg to help her when she arrives at the hospital for her shift?

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

10. Why does Sibgator decide that he wants to stand in the hallway instead of having a bed like everyone else in the ward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The doctors and nurses have a no-nonsense attitude toward Pavel and his outbursts about how he is being treated.

Part 1: Why do you think Pavel wanted to report the care of the doctors and nurses?

Part 2: Do you think that Pavel has a case against the doctors and nurses? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think a doctor and nurse should treat a patient who might be dying?

Essay Topic 2

There weren't tracking devices for measuring how much radiation a person has gotten in their lives, causing people like Dontsova to get radiation sickness.

Part 1: Why do you think tracking devices weren't used to track one's exposure to radiation?

Part 2: Do you think that radiation tracking devices were available during the time period of the book?

Part 3: How do you think current hospitals might track the radiation that a person receives?

Essay Topic 3

Zoya knows that she wants to have a better life than the one that her family has had.

Part 1: Do you think that all people want to have a better life than those who came before them?

Part 2: How do you think you could improve your life right now?

Part 3: Is it possible to always create a new life, one that is different from one's parents?

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