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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affects do these medicines have on Ivan?
(a) They make him sleep most of the time.
(b) They relieve his pain.
(c) They make him depressed.
(d) They make him delusional.

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

3. What does the doctor ignore?
(a) The question as to whether or not Ivan's case is serious.
(b) Ivan's wife's questions.
(c) Ivan's fear that bruises are starting to spread all over his body.
(d) Ivan's ability to pay him.

4. What are two of Ivan Ilych's symptoms?
(a) The weird taste in his mouth and the pain in his side.
(b) The weird taste in his mouth and his craving for blintzes.
(c) Nose bleeds and a terrible limp.
(d) Other bruises appear on his body and the pain in his side.

5. What does Ivan realize in Chapter 7?
(a) That everyone is waiting for him to die.
(b) That he misses work terribly.
(c) That he is not as sick as he has thought.
(d) That his wife doesn't love him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ivan try to work?

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

3. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?

4. How does Ivan Ilych react to his worsening pain?

5. When Ivan Ilych discovers what makes his pain worse, how does he deal with it?

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