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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of Ivan Ilych's children die?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) None.

2. Why are his wife and daughter anxious when Ivan Ilych arrives home?
(a) They are anxious to go out.
(b) They are anxious because Ivan had been gone so long.
(c) They are anxious to get the house clean for the party that night.
(d) They are anxious to hear what the doctor had to say.

3. How does Ivan try to live?
(a) With love in his heart toward all.
(b) Carefree.
(c) As he lived before he was dying.
(d) Carefully, so as not to make his condition worse.

4. What game does Ivan Ilych like to play?
(a) Poker.
(b) Solitaire.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Hearts.

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

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

7. What major theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 6?
(a) Working too hard can kill you.
(b) Leave the curtain the way it is.
(c) We die as we live.
(d) Without family we are nothing.

8. What has happened to the main character?
(a) He has been newly wed.
(b) He has just become a grandfather.
(c) He has been promoted.
(d) He has died.

9. What is wrong with Ivan Ilych's current job?
(a) The money isn't enough to keep up with his standard of living.
(b) The workload is too heavy.
(c) There's not enough to do.
(d) It's boring.

10. What does Ivan Ilych guess the doctor's prognosis is?
(a) Ivan doesn't guess at the doctor's prognosis.
(b) It is not as bad as he thought it was.
(c) It is nothing to worry about.
(d) It is very bad.

11. How did Peter Ivanovich learn the fate of the main character?
(a) From an announcement in the judge's chamber.
(b) From Praskovya Fedorovna.
(c) From a messager sent to tell him.
(d) From reading the newspaper.

12. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife affect his work?
(a) He becomes more and more ambitious.
(b) He becomes close friends with the judge.
(c) He is unprepared for court.
(d) He misses several days.

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

14. Why does Ivan Ilych react to his realization the way he does?
(a) He knows he has done some terrible things in his life.
(b) He doesn't want to leave his family.
(c) He somehow feels he is exempt from death.
(d) He cannot believe he is dying so young.

15. Ivan Ilych's chief concern is to what?
(a) To be well enough to attend the party that evening.
(b) To get his wife to listen to him.
(c) To continue working at his new job.
(d) To follow doctor's orders exactly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Ivan Ilych take his family when he takes a leave of absence from his job?

3. What is the setting of Chapter 1?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what is Ivan Ilych's professional title?

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

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