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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 the doctor focus on?
(a) Whether the pain is coming from the appendix or the kidney.
(b) Whether or not Ivan can pay the bill.
(c) How many other patients are waiting to be seen.
(d) Whether or not the doctor has met Ivan before.

2. What are two of Ivan Ilych's symptoms?
(a) The weird taste in his mouth and the pain in his side.
(b) Nose bleeds and a terrible limp.
(c) Other bruises appear on his body and the pain in his side.
(d) The weird taste in his mouth and his craving for blintzes.

3. How does Ivan's wife explain why she ordered what she did in Chapter 8?
(a) Fresh air will will rid Ivan's room of impurities.
(b) Because she can see Ivan is tired and needs rest.
(c) To put her mind at ease.
(d) She is certain this doctor can cure Ivan.

4. When Ivan Ilych looks in the mirror some time after greeting his brother-in-law, what does he see for the first time?
(a) A tumor.
(b) How old he really is.
(c) How healthy he now looks.
(d) How thin and yellow he has become.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych's wife react to his worsening pain?

2. How does Ivan react to what his wife wants to do when she returns from the theater?

3. Why is it ironic that Ivan resents that his death is trivial?

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

5. Why does Ivan Ilych marry?

(see the answer key)

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