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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ivan Ilych one day as he is adjusting a curtain?
(a) Ivan falls and breaks his leg.
(b) Ivan falls and rips the curtain.
(c) Ivan falls on his wife.
(d) Ivan slips on a stepladder and receives a nasty bruise on his side.

2. Instead, what does Ivan think about in Chapter 10?
(a) Death.
(b) His appendix and his kidney.
(c) His work.
(d) The promotion he didn't get that cause him to be in this situation.

3. What does Ivan Ilych do the more he senses that his wife is bored all the time?
(a) He takes her on vacation.
(b) He carves out a life independent from her.
(c) He tries harder to make her happy.
(d) He buys a home near the sea.

4. How long after Ivan Ilych sees the doctor does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) 1 year later.
(b) 2 days later.
(c) 2 months later.
(d) 1 week later.

5. How bad are the affects of these medicines?
(a) Bad, but at least they relieve the pain.
(b) They make him so sick he tries to avoid taking them.
(c) Not bad at all.
(d) As bad as the pain that they are supposed to relieve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Peter Ivanovich realize as he was speaking to Praskovya Fedorovna?

2. Who helps Ivan Ilych begin to realize that he is dying?

3. Who is Ivan's family going to see at the end of Chatper 8?

4. What does Ivan Ilych see as "doing his duty?"

5. What month of Ivan's illness begins Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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