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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession is Ivan Ilych?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A judge.

2. Who is the first character introduced in Chapter 5?
(a) Ivan's brother-in-law.
(b) Ivan's doctor.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Ivan's wife.

3. Who did Peter Ivanovich meet first at Ivan Ilych's house?
(a) Schwartz.
(b) Gerasim.
(c) Ivan Ilych.
(d) Praskovya Fedorovna.

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

5. What medicines are often given to Ivan?
(a) Opium and morphine.
(b) There is no medicine that can help Ivan.
(c) Penicillin and opium.
(d) Penicillin and morphine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych see as "doing his duty?"

2. How does Ivan try to live?

3. Ivan Ilych finally realizes, after seeing himself in the mirror, that his condition is a question of what?

4. Where does Ivan Ilych take his family when he takes a leave of absence from his job?

5. How does Ivan Ilych deal with the revelation in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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