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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month of Ivan's illness begins Chapter 7?
(a) Sixth.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

2. What does the idea that he hasn't lived a good life stop Ivan from being able to do?
(a) being soothed.
(b) Moving forward.
(c) getting better.
(d) eating.

3. His memories make it difficult for Ivan to do what?
(a) Face the fact that he is dying.
(b) Deal with the pain.
(c) Face the truth of the life he created for himself as an adult.
(d) Stay in the present.

4. What medicines are often given to Ivan?
(a) Penicillin and morphine.
(b) There is no medicine that can help Ivan.
(c) Opium and morphine.
(d) Penicillin and opium.

5. Ivan compares the doctor's visit to what?
(a) Premature death.
(b) The lies of lawyers in the courts.
(c) The hope of a church service.
(d) The time he's spent in the company of his friends.

6. Who is Ivan's family going to see at the end of Chatper 8?
(a) Charles Dicksons.
(b) Sarah Bernhardt.
(c) Harry Houdini.
(d) Enrico Caruso.

7. How does Ivan react to what his wife wants to do when she returns from the theater?
(a) He welcomes her company.
(b) He asks her to tell him all about the concert.
(c) He sends her away.
(d) He pretends to be asleep.

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

9. Why does Ivan say his mental pain is worse?
(a) One moment he wants it all to be over. The next moment he doesn't want to die.
(b) He wishes he had never left his old job and bought this house.
(c) He cannot believe that he is dying from falling off a step ladder.
(d) He cannot bear to leave his family.

10. One evening, Ivan's wife comes into his room to visit dressed how?
(a) For a trip.
(b) For a visit from another specialist.
(c) For a funeral.
(d) For the theater.

11. What does Ivan find once he feels he is pushed through the hole?
(a) Peace.
(b) The ability to spend his last moments with his family.
(c) Strength to deal with the pain.
(d) LIght at the bottom.

12. Who insisted that Ivan's wife and family go out?
(a) Ivan.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Ivan's daughter.
(d) Ivan's wife.

13. What does Ivan's wife tell him to do in Chapter 9?
(a) Take some opium.
(b) Eat something.
(c) Open his window.
(d) Go to sleep.

14. What does Ivan think he was too quick to do?
(a) Suppress his attempts to resist what others considered good.
(b) Yell at his wife.
(c) Get up from his sofa.
(d) Leave his room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan figure out in Chapter 10 about his life?

2. What does Ivan's wife want to do when she returns from the theater?

3. Ivan feels no lasting comfort in what?

4. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan do at his wife's suggestion?

5. What adds to Ivan's suffering?

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