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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ivan Ilych's wife?
(a) Gerasim.
(b) Vladimir Ivanich.
(c) Praskovya Fedorovna.
(d) Lisa.

2. What profession is Ivan Ilych?
(a) A judge.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

3. What does Ivan Ilych consider the worst part of death?
(a) It allows him no action to take.
(b) That he will never see his new house fully decorated.
(c) That it will take him away from his family.
(d) The unbearable pain.

4. What relationship is the main character to Peter Ivanovich?
(a) The main character's brother.
(b) The main character's son-in-law.
(c) The main character's boss.
(d) A lifelong acquaintance and colleaque of the main character.

5. After seeing himself for the first time in many months in the mirror, what reaction does Ivan Ilych have to what he sees?
(a) He is relieved that he was finally able to admit it.
(b) He becomes dizzy and faints.
(c) Anger rises up inside him.
(d) He falls for the second time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit Ivan Ilych in Chapter 5?

2. What offends Ivan Ilych the most about being passed over for a promotion?

3. What did the sight of Ivan Ilych seem to convey to Peter Ivanovich?

4. What does Ivan Ilych think of his marriage?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author see Ivan's life and why?

2. Explain how reactions to Ivan's death by Gerasim and Ivan's son differ from the reactions of all the other characters in Chapter 1.

3. Compare and contrast Ivan's wife and Gerasim in Chapter 8.

4. How is Ivan's sense of power juxtaposed in Chapter 2?

5. How is Ivan's experience of death in Chapter 2 similar to Peter Ivanovich's experience of death in Chapter 1?

6. What is Ivan's feeling of suffocation symbolize in Chapter 12?

7. Why does Ivan fall into a profound depression?

8. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan reveal about himself when he was younger, and what happened to it?

9. What does Ivan stop doing in Chapter 11?

10. How is Ivan characterized in Chapter 3?

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