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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the symptoms that Ivan Ilych has?
(a) He had terrible headaches and is balding.
(b) He is unable to walk and or lift his right arm.
(c) He has gained a lot of weight and limps.
(d) He is thin and yellow.

2. What does Ivan Ilych's son's face look like?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Sunburned.
(c) Tearstained.
(d) Freckled.

3. How many of Ivan Ilych's children die?
(a) 2.
(b) None.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

4. What is wrong with Ivan Ilych's current job?
(a) There's not enough to do.
(b) The money isn't enough to keep up with his standard of living.
(c) It's boring.
(d) The workload is too heavy.

5. What major theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 6?
(a) Without family we are nothing.
(b) Leave the curtain the way it is.
(c) We die as we live.
(d) Working too hard can kill you.

6. How does Ivan try to live?
(a) Carefree.
(b) As he lived before he was dying.
(c) With love in his heart toward all.
(d) Carefully, so as not to make his condition worse.

7. What does Ivan Ilych do for a few hours after seeing himself in the mirror for the first time in quite a while?
(a) He sleeps.
(b) He cries uncontrollable.
(c) He screams at anyone who looks at him.
(d) Ivan tries to think positively about his situation.

8. How much money does Ivan Ilych need to be paid?
(a) Enough to afford to send his son to medical school.
(b) At least 5,000 rubles.
(c) No less than 10,000 rubles.
(d) Enough to buy a summer house.

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

10. How does Ivan Ilych's wife behave toward his illness?
(a) She avoids Ivan.
(b) She behaves as if Ivan has created this illness to annoy and inconvenience her.
(c) She becomes melancholy.
(d) She becomes more loving than ever before toward Ivan.

11. How satisfied with his life is Ivan Ilych?
(a) Totally.
(b) Mostly.
(c) Only a very small amount.
(d) Not at all.

12. Where did Ivan Ilych find a new job?
(a) In the town he'd been living in all his life.
(b) In the town where his wife's brother lives.
(c) In Moscow.
(d) In Petersburg.

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

14. Which character does Chapter 2 discuss?
(a) Ivan Ilych.
(b) Peter Ivanovich.
(c) Gerasim.
(d) Praskovya Fedorovna.

15. Who is the first character introduced in Chapter 5?
(a) Ivan's brother-in-law.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Ivan's doctor.
(d) Ivan's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even after Ivan Ilych realizes that he is going to die, what kinds of thoughts does he try to think about?

2. What profession is Ivan Ilych?

3. When Peter Ivanovich encounters Ivan Ilych's daughter and fiance, how to they look?

4. What did the sight of Ivan Ilych seem to convey to Peter Ivanovich?

5. Who is Ivan Ilych's wife?

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