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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ivan react to what his wife wants to do when she returns from the theater?
(a) He asks her to tell him all about the concert.
(b) He welcomes her company.
(c) He sends her away.
(d) He pretends to be asleep.

2. Where does Ivan try to work?
(a) His study.
(b) The law courts.
(c) The university nearby.
(d) He doesn't try to work.

3. Why is it ironic that Ivan resents that his death is trivial?
(a) Ivan wouldn't die if he would just take his medicine.
(b) His life has been trivial all along and that never bothered him.
(c) Ivan isn't dying.
(d) Ivan enjoys all the attention his illness is getting him.

4. Even after Ivan Ilych realizes that he is going to die, what kinds of thoughts does he try to think about?
(a) How he can stop his daughter's marriage.
(b) How he can spend more time at the office.
(c) Thoughts that he considers more proper and healthy.
(d) What he needs to do to become healthy again.

5. Why does Ivan Ilych's animosity toward his former colleagues vanish?
(a) One of his former colleagues asks for his daughter's hand in marriage.
(b) Ivan Ilych's new position places him two steps above them.
(c) They give him the promotion when he returns from his leave of absence.
(d) He realizes he was being foolish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ivan Ilych used as an escape from reality?

2. Why is this year the hardest year of Ivan Ilych?

3. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what is Ivan Ilych's professional title?

5. What year is it in the novel?

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