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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan realize when he looks back at his life?
(a) That there is nothing that the doctors can do for him.
(b) That the only real and honest pleasures were in his childhood.
(c) That he loves the life he has created with his family.
(d) That he really doesn't want to die.

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

3. Where does Ivan live in his thoughts?
(a) At his old job, having gotten the promotion he expected.
(b) With his friends in the residence hall when he was at school.
(c) In memories of the past.
(d) Happily at home with his family.

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

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

6. What does Ivan realize about his life once he feels he is pushed through the hole?
(a) That it was wonderful.
(b) That his life wasn't worth living.
(c) That he didn't live it well, but it doesn't matter.
(d) That he did the best he could.

7. Who is Ivan's family going to see at the end of Chatper 8?
(a) Enrico Caruso.
(b) Harry Houdini.
(c) Charles Dicksons.
(d) Sarah Bernhardt.

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

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

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

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

12. What medicines are often given to Ivan?
(a) Penicillin and morphine.
(b) There is no medicine that can help Ivan.
(c) Penicillin and opium.
(d) Opium and morphine.

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

14. Instead, what does Ivan think about in Chapter 10?
(a) The promotion he didn't get that cause him to be in this situation.
(b) His work.
(c) His appendix and his kidney.
(d) Death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan seriously consider in Chapter 11?

2. How does Ivan relieve his suffering that night in Chapter 9?

3. How does Ivan feel when his wife enters his room in Chapter 8?

4. Who insisted that Ivan's wife and family go out?

5. What broader concept about life does Ivan come to see once he feels he is pushed through the hole?

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