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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Ivan, what does the thought that he hasn't lived a good life cause?
(a) To be unable to eat.
(b) To be unable to sleep.
(c) To be unable to see his family.
(d) More suffering.

2. How does Ivan Ilych react to his worsening pain?
(a) He begs the doctor for medication to releave the pain.
(b) He decides to stay in bed all day.
(c) He becomes delirious.
(d) He becomes increasingly irritable.

3. What does food become to Ivan?
(a) Soothing.
(b) A distraction from the pain.
(c) Distasteful.
(d) It all taste like iron because of the medication he takes.

4. How much does Ivan sleep?
(a) All day but not at night.
(b) As little as he eats.
(c) Four hours a night on good nights.
(d) All the time.

5. Who does Ivan begin to question in Chapter 9?
(a) The doctor.
(b) God.
(c) Gerasim.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ivan Ilych see as "doing his duty?"

3. What has Ivan Ilych's ambitions resulted in?

4. What two things that Ivan Ilych hears down the hall makes him react as he does?

5. When does Ivan Ilych believe his illness began?

(see the answer key)

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