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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ivan try to hang onto what he does at the end of his life?
(a) He thinks the alternative view will be unbearable.
(b) Being without his family will be unearable.
(c) The idea of no afterlife frightens him.
(d) He refuses to die.

2. What adds to Ivan's suffering?
(a) The thought that he is dying.
(b) The many tests that the doctor's insist on performing each day.
(c) HIs wife's constant babbling about the house.
(d) He is torn between cooperating and resisting.

3. How bad are the affects of these medicines?
(a) Not bad at all.
(b) Bad, but at least they relieve the pain.
(c) They make him so sick he tries to avoid taking them.
(d) As bad as the pain that they are supposed to relieve.

4. In Chapter 8, Ivan is angry with whom?
(a) Everyone.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Those around him who act like everything is normal.
(d) Those who wouldn't promote him at his old job.

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

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

7. What does Ivan begin to review in Chapter 11?
(a) The periodic table.
(b) His whole life and all his relationships.
(c) The proposal he gave his wife so long ago.
(d) The speech he wants to give to his soon to be son-in-law.

8. In Chapter 11, what does his awareness about his deceptions cause Ivan to do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Scream.
(c) Beg forgiveness.
(d) Groan aloud.

9. What broader concept about life does Ivan come to see once he feels he is pushed through the hole?
(a) That it can be lived well even if he didn't live well.
(b) That life is meant to be difficult.
(c) That life is a struggle.
(d) That life is a cabaret.

10. What does Ivan realize when he looks back at his life?
(a) That there is nothing that the doctors can do for him.
(b) That the only real and honest pleasures were in his childhood.
(c) That he loves the life he has created with his family.
(d) That he really doesn't want to die.

11. How do most people treat Ivan's dying?
(a) As an opportunity to show their love for him.
(b) As a tragedy.
(c) As an imposition.
(d) As a relief.

12. What does Ivan realize the further back in his memories he goes?
(a) The more of these distant memories he has than of recent times.
(b) The more there was that was good in life, the more life there was.
(c) He really has had a wonderful life.
(d) He wishes he could re-live them.

13. Of what does Ivan's wife try to convince him?
(a) That she has ordered the specialist for him.
(b) That he looks better everyday.
(c) That she loves him more than ever.
(d) That she is sorry he bought the new house.

14. In Chapter 10, how does Ivan feel about his memories of the past?
(a) The memories are joyful.
(b) The memories are painful.
(c) The memories devastating.
(d) The memories are shocking.

15. When Ivan's son enters his room, what does his son do?
(a) He catches Ivan's flailing hand and kisses it.
(b) He cries quietly.
(c) He stands by his mother silently.
(d) He lays his head on Ivan's chest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ivan's wife ordered in Chapter 8?

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

3. How does Ivan react to what his wife wants to do when she returns from the theater?

4. Where does Ivan live in his thoughts?

5. Which character is introduced in Chapter 7?

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