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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ivan Ilych think will solve his new problem?
(a) To obtain a new job.
(b) Celebrate his love for his wife with a grand ball.
(c) Go to medical school.
(d) Divorce his wife.

3. After offering his condolences, what does Peter Ivanovich tell Praskovya Fedorovna?
(a) That Peter Ivanovich must leave.
(b) That Peter Ivanovich has been secretly in love with Praskovya Fedorovna for years.
(c) That Praskovya Fedorovna has received all the money the government will give her.
(d) That Praskovya Fedorovna is very beautiful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to leave the event that happened on Friday?

2. To what or whom does Peter Ivanovich refuse to yield to?

3. How does Ivan Ilych's view his life?

4. Once settled, what makes Ivan Ilych irritable?

5. To what event did Peter Ivanovich go to on Friday?

(see the answer key)

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