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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Ivan Ilych used as an escape from reality?
(a) Self-deception.
(b) Trying to stop the marriage of his daughter.
(c) Decorating his house.
(d) Writing his memoirs.

2. What does Ivan Ilych try to understand?
(a) How to arrange his life's work in his memoirs.
(b) How he could not have noticed his wife's beauty sooner.
(c) How his daughter could have accepted such a man's proposal of marriage.
(d) That he is dying.

3. Where does Ivan Ilych take his family when he takes a leave of absence from his job?
(a) To America.
(b) To his wife's brother's family.
(c) To the seaside.
(d) To the countryside.

4. Who seems to answer Ivan's questions?
(a) The doctor.
(b) God.
(c) His wife.
(d) Gerasim.

5. What year is it in the novel?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan try to live?

2. Why is it ironic that Ivan resents that his death is trivial?

3. What does Ivan Ilych think will solve his new problem?

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

5. How much will Ivan Ilych's new job pay on moving expenses?

(see the answer key)

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