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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ivan Ilych's pain worsen?
(a) In the morning after he wakes up.
(b) During the night.
(c) When he is upset.
(d) In the evening after dinner.

2. How does Ivan Ilych's wife react to each child's loss?
(a) She wants to try for another child immediately.
(b) She pretends that the child isn't dead for months.
(c) She decides to have no more children.
(d) She becomes more ill temperered.

3. What does Ivan Ilych guess the doctor's prognosis is?
(a) It is nothing to worry about.
(b) Ivan doesn't guess at the doctor's prognosis.
(c) It is not as bad as he thought it was.
(d) It is very bad.

4. Even after Ivan Ilych realizes that he is going to die, what kinds of thoughts does he try to think about?
(a) What he needs to do to become healthy again.
(b) Thoughts that he considers more proper and healthy.
(c) How he can spend more time at the office.
(d) How he can stop his daughter's marriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan react to his memories?

2. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?

3. Why does Ivan's wife enter his room in Chapter 11?

4. When does Ivan Ilych believe his illness began?

5. In Chapter 10, where is Ivan for the next two weeks?

(see the answer key)

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