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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's wife tell him to do, after he gets back from the doctor?
(a) Tell her all about the doctor's visit.
(b) Go to his bed and rest.
(c) Be quiet.
(d) Take his medicine.

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

3. When Ivan Ilych discovers what makes his pain worse, how does he deal with it?
(a) Ivan becomes constantly on guard against anything that might distress him.
(b) He increases his dosage of his medication.
(c) He cries.
(d) He ignores things that might upset him.

4. How does Ivan Ilych's view his life?
(a) Exactly the way he hoped it would be.
(b) As exciting.
(c) As most ordinary.
(d) As extraordinary.

5. Why doesn't Ivan Ilych change his life?
(a) He doesn't have enough money to change it the way he wants it.
(b) His wife won't let him change it.
(c) He likes his life as it is.
(d) He has no imagination for creating another life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych deal with the revelation in Chapter 6?

2. Why does Ivan try to hang onto what he does at the end of his life?

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

4. Instead, what does Ivan think about in Chapter 10?

5. What does Ivan Ilych admit to himself for the first time after seeing himself in the mirror?

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