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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?
(a) That he wasted so much time with his wife.
(b) That he will die over something so trivial.
(c) That he won't have enough time to finish his memoirs.
(d) That he cannot stop his daughter from marrying the wrong man.

4. What does Ivan ask of God?
(a) To take care of his family when he is gone.
(b) To explain why God is allowing him to be in such pain.
(c) To be cured.
(d) To live as he used to - well and pleasantly.

5. What year is it in the novel?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1880.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is wrong with Ivan Ilych's current job?

3. After seeing himself in the mirror, what does Ivan Ilych finally admit to himself?

4. What has Ivan Ilych used as an escape from reality?

5. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?

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