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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chief surgeon in the cancer ward do which causes some to think she is not setting a good example?
(a) Reveal the diagnoses of patients.
(b) Ignore patients.
(c) Chain smoke.
(d) Sleep on the job.

2. What is Dontsova also trying to complete, though she doesn't seem to have the time for this assignment?
(a) Book.
(b) Thesis.
(c) Case study.
(d) Journal.

3. The other patients make fun of Pavel as they ask him why he is on the ___________ if he does not have cancer.
(a) Government.
(b) Medication.
(c) Soviet medical plan.
(d) Cancer ward.

4. What is the number of the ward that Pavel is directed to when he arrives at the hospital?
(a) 1.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

5. The men constantly think about how difficult it was for them to get ___________ to the cancer ward.
(a) Admitted.
(b) Released.
(c) Moved.
(d) Money to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other patients are assigned to the ward that Pavel is assigned to, though he does not care to know them?

2. Who does Vera remember as being difficult even when he first started to stay in the cancer ward?

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

4. Pavel is ________ of his wife and of his station in life and is appalled by his treatment in the hospital.

5. Dontsova is concerned about patients who have experienced ____________, even as they were treated in other parts of their bodies.

(see the answer key)

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