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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Ivan Ilych need to be paid?
(a) No less than 10,000 rubles.
(b) Enough to afford to send his son to medical school.
(c) Enough to buy a summer house.
(d) At least 5,000 rubles.

2. What happens to Ivan Ilych one day as he is adjusting a curtain?
(a) Ivan falls and rips the curtain.
(b) Ivan slips on a stepladder and receives a nasty bruise on his side.
(c) Ivan falls and breaks his leg.
(d) Ivan falls on his wife.

3. How satisfied with his life is Ivan Ilych?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Only a very small amount.
(c) Mostly.
(d) Totally.

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

5. How does Gerasim treat Ivan?
(a) As though he is glad to see Ivan go.
(b) As if he will be left some money if he is nice to Ivan.
(c) The same as everyone else.
(d) He is cheerful and kind and does not pretend Ivan will get well.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych react to his worsening pain?

2. How does Ivan Ilych's wife react to his worsening pain?

3. What has Ivan Ilych's ambitions resulted in?

4. What medicines are often given to Ivan?

5. What does Ivan Ilych think his wife wants of him?

(see the answer key)

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