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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Praskovya Fedorovna's relationship to the main character?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Son.
(c) Servant.
(d) Wife.

2. What does the doctor ignore?
(a) Ivan's ability to pay him.
(b) The question as to whether or not Ivan's case is serious.
(c) Ivan's fear that bruises are starting to spread all over his body.
(d) Ivan's wife's questions.

3. What does Ivan Ilych admit to himself for the first time after seeing himself in the mirror?
(a) That he really wished he'd gone to medical school instead of becoming a lawyer.
(b) That he is an excellent husband.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) That he is a good man.

4. When Peter Ivanovich encounters Ivan Ilych's daughter and fiance, how to they look?
(a) Ready to cry.
(b) Inconvienenced.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy together.

5. What does Ivan Ilych's son's face look like?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Freckled.
(c) Sunburned.
(d) Tearstained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych recognize in the doctor's professional air?

2. After seeing himself in the mirror, what does Ivan Ilych finally admit to himself?

3. Is Ivan Ilych successful in understanding this?

4. Of what does Ivan's wife try to convince him?

5. Where does Ivan try to work?

(see the answer key)

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