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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nurse bring to the ward that Pavel wants to see before anyone else?
(a) Notice.
(b) Telegram.
(c) Paper.
(d) Movie.

2. Where was Oleg first when he was diagnosed with cancer, though he was not told of his test results?
(a) Field hospital.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) Home.
(d) A school.

3. Who comes with Kapa to drop Pavel off at the hospital when he is admitted to the cancer ward?
(a) An armed guard.
(b) Yuri.
(c) Dymoka.
(d) No one.

4. Who tells the women physicians that he is ready to go home, as he often tells them during his time on the ward?
(a) Dyomka.
(b) Vadim.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Oleg.

5. 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.
(a) Intern.
(b) Investigator.
(c) Inspection.
(d) Interrogation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is supposed to be absent from the ward for ten days in order to attend a political rally?

2. What does Oleg believe Zoya looks like when she takes off her nurse's cap?

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

4. What does the nurse give to Pavel when he wakes up from his injection?

5. Where does Zoya invite Oleg to sit with her when she is on a break during her shift?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Oleg come to the hospital in the first place, according to his conversation with others?

2. What is the secret that Vera has been keeping, one that others assume is not the truth and she does not correct them?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does the orderly do though she has only completed a part of her job?

7. What does Pavel almost forget to tell his wife during their Sunday visit at the hospital?

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

9. Why was Oleg never told about the original biopsies of his primary tumor?

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

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