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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what event did Peter Ivanovich go to on Friday?
(a) To a wedding.
(b) To argue a court case.
(c) To a grand ball.
(d) To a funeral.

3. What does Ivan's wife want to do when she returns from the theater?
(a) Have some wine.
(b) Have dinner.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Sit with Ivan.

4. What does Ivan Ilych hear down the hall?
(a) His family visiting with his brother-in-law.
(b) Footsteps.
(c) His family getting the house ready for the party that night.
(d) An intruder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Ivan Ilych successful in understanding this?

2. How bad are the affects of these medicines?

3. What does Ivan realize in Chapter 7?

4. Who is the main character?

5. What does Ivan Ilych consider the worst part of death?

(see the answer key)

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