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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych consider the worst part of death?
(a) That it will take him away from his family.
(b) It allows him no action to take.
(c) That he will never see his new house fully decorated.
(d) The unbearable pain.

2. Where did Ivan Ilych find a new job?
(a) In the town where his wife's brother lives.
(b) In the town he'd been living in all his life.
(c) In Moscow.
(d) In Petersburg.

3. How does Ivan Ilych react to the thought that he is dying?
(a) Fear.
(b) Rage.
(c) Deep depression.
(d) Sadness.

4. Why does the specialist's visit cause Ivan more pain?
(a) Because Ivan can't bear to see yet another doctor.
(b) Because he does many painful tests.
(c) It gives Ivan a brief moment of false hope.
(d) Because he cuts Ivan at the wrists to allow the impurities of his blood to leave the body.

5. What does the doctor ignore?
(a) Ivan's ability to pay him.
(b) The question as to whether or not Ivan's case is serious.
(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. How old is Ivan Ilych's son?

3. What has Ivan Ilych's ambitions resulted in?

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

5. In Chapter 8, Ivan is angry with whom?

(see the answer key)

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