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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Ivan's drugs help his wife and doctors?
(a) The drugs make them feel better because they ease his pain.
(b) The drugs make Ivan easier to be with.
(c) The drugs only serve their convenience in keeping Ivan quiet.
(d) The drugs make it easier for him to sleep.

3. What has Ivan stopped doing?
(a) Lying.
(b) Eating.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Coughing.

4. What affects do these medicines have on Ivan?
(a) They relieve his pain.
(b) They make him depressed.
(c) They make him sleep most of the time.
(d) They make him delusional.

5. What does Ivan's wife want to do when she returns from the theater?
(a) Have some wine.
(b) Have dinner.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Sit with Ivan.

6. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?
(a) When he married.
(b) The moment he fell off the step ladder.
(c) The more he has gone up in public opinion during his adult life.
(d) When he failed to get the promotion at his old job.

7. Why does Ivan try to hang onto what he does at the end of his life?
(a) He thinks the alternative view will be unbearable.
(b) He refuses to die.
(c) The idea of no afterlife frightens him.
(d) Being without his family will be unearable.

8. What does Ivan do for the last three days of his life?
(a) Screams.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Cries.
(d) Bleeds.

9. What does food become to Ivan?
(a) It all taste like iron because of the medication he takes.
(b) A distraction from the pain.
(c) Soothing.
(d) Distasteful.

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

11. What does Ivan struggle with during the last three days of his life?
(a) The black sack.
(b) The bright light.
(c) The bleeding.
(d) The pain.

12. When Ivan's son enters his room, what does his son do?
(a) He cries quietly.
(b) He catches Ivan's flailing hand and kisses it.
(c) He stands by his mother silently.
(d) He lays his head on Ivan's chest.

13. How do most people act toward Ivan?
(a) They avoid him.
(b) They pretend he is not dying.
(c) They are happy to finally be rid of him.
(d) They already mourn his death.

14. What does Ivan realize the further back in his memories he goes?
(a) He really has had a wonderful life.
(b) The more there was that was good in life, the more life there was.
(c) He wishes he could re-live them.
(d) The more of these distant memories he has than of recent times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the hardest thing for Ivan to bear?

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

3. What does Ivan think may have been real after all?

4. In Chapter 11, what does his awareness about his deceptions cause Ivan to do?

5. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan do at his wife's suggestion?

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