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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship is the main character to Peter Ivanovich?
(a) The main character's brother.
(b) A lifelong acquaintance and colleaque of the main character.
(c) The main character's son-in-law.
(d) The main character's boss.

2. Why is Ivan Ilych able to find a new home that will please both him and his wife?
(a) His wife does what Ivan tells her to do.
(b) His wife will live anywhere so long as her family is with her.
(c) They have the same taste.
(d) His wife realizes Ivan has to find a house for the family quickly.

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

4. What does Ivan Ilych see as "doing his duty?"
(a) To do whatever pleases those in authority.
(b) To be the best father to his children.
(c) To serve the judicial system honorably.
(d) To do whatever pleases his wife.

5. What causes Ivan Ilych much distress?
(a) His wife.
(b) Being constantly on guard against anything that might distress him.
(c) Not being able to continue working at his new job.
(d) The severe pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character does Chapter 2 discuss?

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

3. Why does Ivan Ilych's animosity toward his former colleagues vanish?

4. When Ivan Ilych gets home from the doctor, what does he do?

5. How did Peter Ivanovich learn the fate of the main character?

(see the answer key)

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