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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 live as he used to - well and pleasantly.
(d) To be cured.

4. 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 sends her away.
(c) He welcomes her company.
(d) He asks her to tell him all about the concert.

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

6. Why does the specialist's visit cause Ivan more pain?
(a) Because Ivan can't bear to see yet another doctor.
(b) Because he cuts Ivan at the wrists to allow the impurities of his blood to leave the body.
(c) It gives Ivan a brief moment of false hope.
(d) Because he does many painful tests.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Ivan say his mental pain is worse?
(a) One moment he wants it all to be over. The next moment he doesn't want to die.
(b) He cannot believe that he is dying from falling off a step ladder.
(c) He wishes he had never left his old job and bought this house.
(d) He cannot bear to leave his family.

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

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

15. Why does Ivan's wife enter his room in Chapter 11?
(a) To tell Ivan that their daughter's fiance has finally proposed.
(b) To bring him something to eat.
(c) To keep him company.
(d) To make him comfortabe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does food become to Ivan?

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

3. What does Ivan think may have been real after all?

4. Instead, what does Ivan think about in Chapter 10?

5. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?

(see the answer keys)

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