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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor focus on?
(a) How many other patients are waiting to be seen.
(b) Whether the pain is coming from the appendix or the kidney.
(c) Whether or not the doctor has met Ivan before.
(d) Whether or not Ivan can pay the bill.

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

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

4. Once settled, what makes Ivan Ilych irritable?
(a) The family's new dog.
(b) Every new stain or imperfection.
(c) His children.
(d) His wife.

5. What is Ivan Ilych forced to do with his thoughts of death?
(a) Cry over them incessantly.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Sit there and face them.
(d) Tell his wife about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ivan Ilych try to replace thoughts of death?

2. What did Praskovya Fedorovna tell Peter Ivanovich about the main character?

3. Why does the specialist's visit cause Ivan more pain?

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

5. What major theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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