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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Ivan Ilych's ambitions resulted in?
(a) Alienation of his children.
(b) Terrible headaches.
(c) Increasing levels of power at work.
(d) Tension between he and his wife.

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

3. Why does Ivan Ilych's animosity toward his former colleagues vanish?
(a) One of his former colleagues asks for his daughter's hand in marriage.
(b) They give him the promotion when he returns from his leave of absence.
(c) He realizes he was being foolish.
(d) Ivan Ilych's new position places him two steps above them.

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

5. What relationship is the main character to Peter Ivanovich?
(a) A lifelong acquaintance and colleaque of the main character.
(b) The main character's son-in-law.
(c) The main character's brother.
(d) The main character's boss.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ivan Ilych take his family there?

2. Once settled, what makes Ivan Ilych irritable?

3. Who is the main character?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 3, what is Ivan Ilych's professional title?

5. What is Praskovya Fedorovna's relationship to the main character?

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