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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 6?
(a) Without family we are nothing.
(b) Leave the curtain the way it is.
(c) We die as we live.
(d) Working too hard can kill you.

2. How much money does Ivan Ilych need to be paid?
(a) At least 5,000 rubles.
(b) No less than 10,000 rubles.
(c) Enough to afford to send his son to medical school.
(d) Enough to buy a summer house.

3. Where does Ivan try to work?
(a) He doesn't try to work.
(b) The law courts.
(c) His study.
(d) The university nearby.

4. What is Ivan Ilych forced to do with his thoughts of death?
(a) Ignore them.
(b) Cry over them incessantly.
(c) Sit there and face them.
(d) Tell his wife about them.

5. What does Ivan Ilych try to understand?
(a) How to arrange his life's work in his memoirs.
(b) That he is dying.
(c) How his daughter could have accepted such a man's proposal of marriage.
(d) How he could not have noticed his wife's beauty sooner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan realize when he looks back at his life?

2. Is Ivan Ilych successful in understanding this?

3. When does Ivan Ilych believe his illness began?

4. What year is it in the novel?

5. Why does Ivan Ilych try to replace thoughts of death?

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