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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan ask of God?
(a) To explain why God is allowing him to be in such pain.
(b) To take care of his family when he is gone.
(c) To be cured.
(d) To live as he used to - well and pleasantly.

2. How does Ivan react to what his wife wants to do when she returns from the theater?
(a) He welcomes her company.
(b) He asks her to tell him all about the concert.
(c) He pretends to be asleep.
(d) He sends her away.

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) Happily at home with his family.
(d) In memories of the past.

4. What month of Ivan's illness begins Chapter 7?
(a) Sixth.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Third.

5. What has Ivan's wife ordered in Chapter 8?
(a) Everyone to leave Ivan's room.
(b) That the windows in Ivan's room be opened to let the fresh air in.
(c) A visit from a celebrated specialist.
(d) That Ivan stop pitying himself.

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

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

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

9. His memories of the past lead Ivan specifically to where?
(a) That fateful day he fell off the step ladder.
(b) School.
(c) The day he met his wife.
(d) His childhood.

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

11. Ivan feels no lasting comfort in what?
(a) Taking communion.
(b) His confession.
(c) His memories.
(d) His wife's presence.

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Ivan realize in Chapter 7?
(a) That everyone is waiting for him to die.
(b) That his wife doesn't love him.
(c) That he is not as sick as he has thought.
(d) That he misses work terribly.

Short Answer Questions

1. One evening, Ivan's wife comes into his room to visit dressed how?

2. How does Ivan respond to his wife entering his room?

3. What does the idea that he hasn't lived a good life stop Ivan from being able to do?

4. Others see Ivan twitch and gasp for two more hours, but Ivan experiences what?

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

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