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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Praskovya Fedorovna tell Peter Ivanovich about the main character?
(a) He will make a wonderful grandfather.
(b) He is excited about his daughter's wedding.
(c) He lay screaming almost non-stop for the last three days.
(d) He is an excellent dancer.

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

4. Ivan Ilych knows he gave his life to what?
(a) His family.
(b) To getting that promotion that he knows he deserves.
(c) Decorating his house.
(d) The law.

5. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?
(a) For a visit.
(b) For a vacation.
(c) To hide from the law.
(d) To save money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ivan Ilych guess the doctor's prognosis is?

3. What does Ivan ask of God?

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

5. How does Ivan try to live?

(see the answer key)

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