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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ivan think he was too quick to do?
(a) Get up from his sofa.
(b) Suppress his attempts to resist what others considered good.
(c) Leave his room.
(d) Yell at his wife.

3. Of what does Ivan's wife try to convince him?
(a) That he looks better everyday.
(b) That she has ordered the specialist for him.
(c) That she is sorry he bought the new house.
(d) That she loves him more than ever.

4. Who seems to answer Ivan's questions?
(a) God.
(b) Gerasim.
(c) His wife.
(d) The doctor.

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

6. Others see Ivan twitch and gasp for two more hours, but Ivan experiences what?
(a) Joy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Pain.

7. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan do at his wife's suggestion?
(a) Let the fresh air in by opening the window of his room.
(b) Eat.
(c) Take communion.
(d) Take another dose of medicine.

8. In Chapter 11, Ivan sees that his deceptions have done what?
(a) Distance himself from his children.
(b) Hidden both life and death from him.
(c) Strained his frienship with Peter.
(d) Distanced he and his wife.

9. What is the hardest thing for Ivan to bear?
(a) Not being able to eat his favorite foods.
(b) The pain.
(c) Not being able to sleep much.
(d) That others have to be involved in his excretions.

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

11. For Ivan, what does the thought that he hasn't lived a good life cause?
(a) To be unable to eat.
(b) To be unable to sleep.
(c) More suffering.
(d) To be unable to see his family.

12. What does Ivan try to hang onto at the end of his life?
(a) His last breath.
(b) His belief in God.
(c) His family.
(d) The notion that his life has been a good one.

13. What broader concept about life does Ivan come to see once he feels he is pushed through the hole?
(a) That life is a cabaret.
(b) That it can be lived well even if he didn't live well.
(c) That life is meant to be difficult.
(d) That life is a struggle.

14. What does the idea that he hasn't lived a good life stop Ivan from being able to do?
(a) getting better.
(b) Moving forward.
(c) being soothed.
(d) eating.

15. How does Ivan's wife explain why she ordered what she did in Chapter 8?
(a) She is certain this doctor can cure Ivan.
(b) To put her mind at ease.
(c) Because she can see Ivan is tired and needs rest.
(d) Fresh air will will rid Ivan's room of impurities.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, how does Ivan feel about his memories of the past?

2. What month of Ivan's illness begins Chapter 7?

3. What does Ivan find once he feels he is pushed through the hole?

4. What adds to Ivan's suffering?

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

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