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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ivan Ilych discovers what makes his pain worse, how does he deal with it?
(a) He ignores things that might upset him.
(b) Ivan becomes constantly on guard against anything that might distress him.
(c) He cries.
(d) He increases his dosage of his medication.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what is Ivan Ilych's professional title?
(a) Judge.
(b) District Attorney.
(c) Civil Lawyer.
(d) Public Prosecutor.

3. Ivan Ilych's chief concern is to what?
(a) To be well enough to attend the party that evening.
(b) To continue working at his new job.
(c) To get his wife to listen to him.
(d) To follow doctor's orders exactly.

4. How does Ivan Ilych's wife behave toward his illness?
(a) She becomes melancholy.
(b) She becomes more loving than ever before toward Ivan.
(c) She avoids Ivan.
(d) She behaves as if Ivan has created this illness to annoy and inconvenience her.

5. To what or whom does Peter Ivanovich refuse to yield to?
(a) Any depressing thoughts.
(b) The bicycle on the left.
(c) Ivan Ilych.
(d) The prosecution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the doctor respond when Ivan Ilych presses him for an answer to the seriousness of his symptoms?

2. When Peter Ivanovich encounters Ivan Ilych's daughter and fiance, how to they look?

3. Which character does Chapter 2 discuss?

4. What profession is Ivan Ilych?

5. To what event did Peter Ivanovich go to on Friday?

(see the answer key)

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