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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?
(a) That he cannot stop his daughter from marrying the wrong man.
(b) That he wasted so much time with his wife.
(c) That he will die over something so trivial.
(d) That he won't have enough time to finish his memoirs.

2. How does Ivan Ilych's wife react to each child's loss?
(a) She becomes more ill temperered.
(b) She wants to try for another child immediately.
(c) She decides to have no more children.
(d) She pretends that the child isn't dead for months.

3. Why does Ivan Ilych think that his case might not be so serious after all?
(a) Because his wife can go out as usual.
(b) Because the doctor tells him not to worry.
(c) Because he is feeling better already.
(d) Because he reads about it in a medical book.

4. Why does Ivan Ilych react to his realization the way he does?
(a) He somehow feels he is exempt from death.
(b) He cannot believe he is dying so young.
(c) He doesn't want to leave his family.
(d) He knows he has done some terrible things in his life.

5. Why does Ivan Ilych try to replace thoughts of death?
(a) He thinks he is being foolish.
(b) To protect himself.
(c) He thinks he can still get well.
(d) He is too busy to think about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan figure out in Chapter 10 about his life?

2. What does Ivan realize in Chapter 7?

3. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?

4. What offends Ivan Ilych the most about being passed over for a promotion?

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

(see the answer key)

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