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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ivan realize when he looks back at his life?
(a) That there is nothing that the doctors can do for him.
(b) That he really doesn't want to die.
(c) That he loves the life he has created with his family.
(d) That the only real and honest pleasures were in his childhood.

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

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

5. How does Ivan Ilych deal with the revelation in Chapter 6?
(a) He starts finds a suitable book in which to write his memoirs.
(b) He plans to stop his daughter's marriage.
(c) He spends more times with his wife.
(d) He despairs continuously.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ivan Ilych one day as he is adjusting a curtain?

2. What does Ivan Ilych think will solve his new problem?

3. Ivan Ilych knows he gave his life to what?

4. Why is it ironic that Ivan resents that his death is trivial?

5. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?

(see the answer key)

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