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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 he loves the life he has created with his family.
(b) That he really doesn't want to die.
(c) That the only real and honest pleasures were in his childhood.
(d) That there is nothing that the doctors can do for him.

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

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

4. What does Ivan figure out in Chapter 10 about his life?
(a) That his family is all he needs.
(b) That he should have married his true love.
(c) That his life is a web of lies.
(d) That he could have done things differently if he had gotten that promotion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What has Ivan stopped thinking about by chapter 10?
(a) His appendix and his kidney.
(b) Death.
(c) His work.
(d) How to get the promotion he felt he was due.

12. How often does Ivan experience physical pain?
(a) Mostly at night.
(b) Mostly in the morning.
(c) On and off.
(d) Constantly.

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

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

15. How does Ivan feel when his wife enters his room in Chapter 8?
(a) Surrounded by lies.
(b) Sad to think he must soon leave her.
(c) Comforted.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivan begin to review in Chapter 11?

2. How do Ivan's drugs help his wife and doctors?

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

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

5. What does Ivan realize the further back in his memories he goes?

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