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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ivan try to live?
(a) Carefree.
(b) Carefully, so as not to make his condition worse.
(c) As he lived before he was dying.
(d) With love in his heart toward all.

2. When does Ivan Ilych's pain worsen?
(a) During the night.
(b) In the evening after dinner.
(c) When he is upset.
(d) In the morning after he wakes up.

3. How satisfied with his life is Ivan Ilych?
(a) Mostly.
(b) Only a very small amount.
(c) Totally.
(d) Not at all.

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

5. What does the doctor ignore?
(a) The question as to whether or not Ivan's case is serious.
(b) Ivan's ability to pay him.
(c) Ivan's fear that bruises are starting to spread all over his body.
(d) Ivan's wife's questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?

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

3. After offering his condolences, what does Peter Ivanovich tell Praskovya Fedorovna?

4. What is Ivan Ilych forced to do with his thoughts of death?

5. How long ago did Ivan Ilych start his career?

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