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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Ivan Ilych's current job?
(a) The money isn't enough to keep up with his standard of living.
(b) The workload is too heavy.
(c) There's not enough to do.
(d) It's boring.

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

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

4. What does Ivan Ilych do for a few hours after seeing himself in the mirror for the first time in quite a while?
(a) Ivan tries to think positively about his situation.
(b) He cries uncontrollable.
(c) He screams at anyone who looks at him.
(d) He sleeps.

5. What causes Ivan Ilych much distress?
(a) His wife.
(b) Being constantly on guard against anything that might distress him.
(c) The severe pain.
(d) Not being able to continue working at his new job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych respond when confronted with the symptoms of his illness?

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

3. Who did Peter Ivanovich meet first at Ivan Ilych's house?

4. How does Ivan Ilych's wife behave toward his illness?

5. How does Ivan try to live?

(see the answer key)

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