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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Ivan sleep?
(a) All day but not at night.
(b) Four hours a night on good nights.
(c) All the time.
(d) As little as he eats.

2. Which character is introduced in Chapter 7?
(a) Peter Ivanovich.
(b) Schwartz.
(c) Vladimir Ivanich.
(d) Gerasim.

3. In Chapter 11, what does his awareness about his deceptions cause Ivan to do?
(a) Beg forgiveness.
(b) Scream.
(c) Cry.
(d) Groan aloud.

4. What does Ivan think may have been real after all?
(a) The revulsion he felt for his wife all those years ago.
(b) The desire to become a doctor.
(c) The feelings he had for Peter's wife.
(d) His non-conformist urges.

5. In Chapter 10, how does Ivan feel about his memories of the past?
(a) The memories are joyful.
(b) The memories are shocking.
(c) The memories are painful.
(d) The memories devastating.

6. By Chapter 10, how does Ivan feel in his thoughts?
(a) Content.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Discouraged.
(d) Satisfied.

7. What does Ivan's wife tell him to do in Chapter 9?
(a) Eat something.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Open his window.
(d) Take some opium.

8. What adds to Ivan's suffering?
(a) HIs wife's constant babbling about the house.
(b) The many tests that the doctor's insist on performing each day.
(c) He is torn between cooperating and resisting.
(d) The thought that he is dying.

9. How long does Ivan ponder his broader concept about life before his actual death?
(a) Moments before.
(b) One hour.
(c) A half hour.
(d) Two hours.

10. How do most people treat Ivan's dying?
(a) As an opportunity to show their love for him.
(b) As a tragedy.
(c) As a relief.
(d) As an imposition.

11. What does Ivan begin to review in Chapter 11?
(a) His whole life and all his relationships.
(b) The periodic table.
(c) The proposal he gave his wife so long ago.
(d) The speech he wants to give to his soon to be son-in-law.

12. Who insisted that Ivan's wife and family go out?
(a) Ivan.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Ivan's wife.
(d) Ivan's daughter.

13. His memories make it difficult for Ivan to do what?
(a) Deal with the pain.
(b) Stay in the present.
(c) Face the truth of the life he created for himself as an adult.
(d) Face the fact that he is dying.

14. What explanation has Ivan for the realizations about his memories?
(a) He has not lived as he ought.
(b) He was raised by good parents.
(c) He lived as he should have.
(d) He raised his own children the way he was raised.

15. How bad are the affects of these medicines?
(a) As bad as the pain that they are supposed to relieve.
(b) They make him so sick he tries to avoid taking them.
(c) Bad, but at least they relieve the pain.
(d) Not bad at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affects do these medicines have on Ivan?

2. Who seems to answer Ivan's questions?

3. What does Ivan's wife want to do when she returns from the theater?

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

5. What does Ivan figure out in Chapter 10 about his life?

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