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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is Ivan Ilych successful in understanding this?
(a) Yes, immediately.
(b) No, he cannot.
(c) Yes, but it takes time to ponder.
(d) Yes, most of the time.

2. When does Ivan Ilych take a leave of absence from his job?
(a) The summer of 1865.
(b) The following year.
(c) The day after he is not promoted.
(d) The summer of 1880.

3. Why is this year the hardest year of Ivan Ilych?
(a) He is passed over for promotion.
(b) His daughter is killed.
(c) His wife leaves him.
(d) His wife dies.

4. Why does Ivan Ilych's animosity toward his former colleagues vanish?
(a) One of his former colleagues asks for his daughter's hand in marriage.
(b) They give him the promotion when he returns from his leave of absence.
(c) Ivan Ilych's new position places him two steps above them.
(d) He realizes he was being foolish.

5. Once settled, what makes Ivan Ilych irritable?
(a) His children.
(b) The family's new dog.
(c) His wife.
(d) Every new stain or imperfection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan ask of God?

2. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?

3. Where does Ivan try to work?

4. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?

5. What does Ivan's wife tell him to do in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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