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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ivan relieve his suffering that night in Chapter 9?
(a) He takes more medicine than the doctor suggested.
(b) He calls his son to his side.
(c) He listens to his daughter sing softly.
(d) He has a good cry.

2. His memories of the past lead Ivan specifically to where?
(a) That fateful day he fell off the step ladder.
(b) His childhood.
(c) The day he met his wife.
(d) School.

3. What does Ivan seriously consider in Chapter 11?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) Murdering his wife.
(c) Living to see his daughter married.
(d) The idea that he has lived wrongly.

4. What galls Ivan Ilych to think?
(a) That he cannot stop his daughter from marrying the wrong man.
(b) That he will die over something so trivial.
(c) That he won't have enough time to finish his memoirs.
(d) That he wasted so much time with his wife.

5. Who seems to answer Ivan's questions?
(a) His wife.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Gerasim.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to leave the event that happened on Friday?

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

3. What explanation has Ivan for the realizations about his memories?

4. Who is Ivan Ilych's wife?

5. Of what does Ivan's wife try to convince him?

(see the answer key)

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