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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ivan Ilych do in his second job?
(a) Root out corruption.
(b) Implement new laws.
(c) Represent clients in the courts.
(d) Work the jail.

2. Why does Dmitri go to the Caucasus?
(a) For a business deal.
(b) To look for adventure.
(c) To escape from his debts.
(d) To serve the Tsar.

3. How does Ivan Ilych feel about his life as he reviews it from his deathbed?
(a) He is revolted.
(b) He forgives himself.
(c) He is grateful for all his opportunities.
(d) He decides he would not do anything differently.

4. What does Maryanka do when Dmitri returns to Russia?
(a) She does not look at him.
(b) She comes with him.
(c) She watches him from a prominent place where he can see her.
(d) She cries openly.

5. Who lives on the other side of the Terek River?
(a) Russians.
(b) Grebensk Cossacks.
(c) Muslim Tartars.
(d) Turks.

6. How does Tolstoy say Liza Annenskaya acts on her jealousy?
(a) She flies into rages.
(b) She controls it.
(c) She becomes depressed.
(d) She has affairs of her own.

7. How does Tolstoy describe Marya and Sergey's feelings for each other?
(a) Head over heels in love.
(b) Respectful and moderately affectionate.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Indifferent to each other.

8. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych felt upon taking his position at the Court of Justice?
(a) Proud and apprehensive.
(b) Anxious and depressed.
(c) Miserable and filled with dread.
(d) Content and happy.

9. Why was Liza Annenskaya confined to bed?
(a) She tripped crossing a ditch.
(b) She was having complications of her pregnancy.
(c) She was having fits.
(d) She was taken ill.

10. What does Tolstoy say Dmitri hopes to find in the Caucasus?
(a) Riches.
(b) The perfect woman.
(c) Escape from his wife.
(d) His daughter.

11. What are Ivan Ilych's symptoms of the illness that kills him?
(a) Pain in his joints and neck.
(b) Nausea.
(c) A strange taste in his mouth.
(d) Hearing loss.

12. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?
(a) That they are independent.
(b) That they are perfect.
(c) That they are flawed.
(d) That they each depend on the other.

13. How does Marya see herself in relation to Sergey, once she begins to be depressed?
(a) As a goddess.
(b) As a nuisance.
(c) As an afterthought.
(d) As a mother.

14. What was Ivan Ilych promoted to after three years in his second position?
(a) Provincial director.
(b) Judge.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) Assistant public prosecutor.

15. What causes Sergey to declare that everything is over between himself and Marya?
(a) Her suicide attempt.
(b) A jealous rage.
(c) Her affair with a Frenchman.
(d) Her illness and depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Eugene Irtenev move to the Semenov estate?

2. How does marriage make Eugene Irtenev's life easier?

3. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife change when he begins to work at the Court of Justice?

4. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?

5. What does Marya find after she gives birth?

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