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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the conflict in Chapter 5?
(a) Ivan still cannot accept that he may be dying.
(b) Ivan dislikes his brother-in-law but must visit with him.
(c) Ivan cannot stay awake, but he has work to do.
(d) Ivan feels that know one is listening to him.

2. How does Ivan Ilych's view his life?
(a) As most ordinary.
(b) Exactly the way he hoped it would be.
(c) As exciting.
(d) As extraordinary.

3. What does Ivan Ilych feel toward what he hears down the hall?
(a) Fear.
(b) Pity.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

4. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?
(a) That he won't have enough time to finish his memoirs.
(b) That he wasted so much time with his wife.
(c) That he cannot stop his daughter from marrying the wrong man.
(d) That he will die over something so trivial.

5. To what or whom does Peter Ivanovich refuse to yield to?
(a) Any depressing thoughts.
(b) Ivan Ilych.
(c) The prosecution.
(d) The bicycle on the left.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Ivan Ilych's children die?

2. What is Praskovya Fedorovna's relationship to the main character?

3. Without the distraction of work, what happens to Ivan Ilych?

4. What are two of Ivan Ilych's symptoms?

5. When does Ivan Ilych take a leave of absence from his job?

(see the answer key)

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