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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Ivan Ilych's wife?
(a) Praskovya Fedorovna.
(b) Gerasim.
(c) Vladimir Ivanich.
(d) Lisa.

3. 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) As bad as the pain that they are supposed to relieve.
(d) Not bad at all.

4. Where does Ivan try to work?
(a) The university nearby.
(b) The law courts.
(c) He doesn't try to work.
(d) His study.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ivan Ilych gets home from the doctor, what does he do?

2. What has happened to the main character?

3. How long does Ivan ponder his broader concept about life before his actual death?

4. Why does Ivan Ilych marry?

5. What does Ivan struggle with during the last three days of his life?

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