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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. Who does Lev seek out in order to find a better conversation than the one that is happening in the private room?

2. The Kadmins, Oleg remembers, only found _______ in everything that happened to them.

3. Who had a man she loved killed in the war, though she now loves Oleg?

4. ___________ is told to go to Moscow in order to get her testing done because she is one of the doctors.

5. Aviette talks about how one should tell others of the _____________ in life, rather than to talk about the opposite side of life.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dontsova tell Vera to do when Oleg is given permission to go home?

2. What does Oleg want to know about the hormone therapy that he is taking?

3. What does Dyomka make Oleg promise to do when he is released from the ward?

4. What does Oleg believe of exile in general, according to his own admission in this section?

5. What happens because Dontsova is a doctor who is seeking medical testing and evaluation?

6. What is the situation of the orderly with whom Oleg talks in the halls when he cannot sleep?

7. What does Oleg do when he is finally released from the hospital?

8. What does Dyomka's surgeon have to do immediately after the surgery at the start of this section?

9. How did Dr. Oreshchenkov finally begin to have his private practice?

10. What is the opinion that Dontsova has of socialized medicine about which the other doctor realizes he cannot sway her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pavel knows that he has manipulated many people in order to get the things he has, but cancer will not respond in the same way.

Part 1: Do you think there is ever a good reason to manipulate someone else?

Part 2: How do you think manipulation can work in your favor?

Part 3: Why do you think Pavel feels that manipulation is the best way to get what he wants?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Dontsova has a thesis in progress, but she does not have the time to work on it because of her work in the cancer ward.

Part 1: Do you think that a thesis is something that should be more important than work?

Part 2: How do you think Dontsova might improve her work as a doctor if she were to be able to finish her thesis?

Part 3: Why do you think Dontsova doesn't have the time to complete it?

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