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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thought that he is dying.
(d) The many tests that the doctor's insist on performing each day.

2. 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 appendix and his kidney.
(c) Death.
(d) His work.

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

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

5. What does Ivan begin to review in Chapter 11?
(a) The speech he wants to give to his soon to be son-in-law.
(b) His whole life and all his relationships.
(c) The proposal he gave his wife so long ago.
(d) The periodic table.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who does Ivan begin to question in Chapter 9?
(a) God.
(b) The doctor.
(c) His wife.
(d) Gerasim.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What characters are mentioned in Chapter 9?

2. How do most people treat Ivan's dying?

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

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

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

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