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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. In Chapter 8, Ivan is angry with whom?
(a) Those who wouldn't promote him at his old job.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Those around him who act like everything is normal.

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

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

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

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

9. How does Gerasim treat Ivan?
(a) He is cheerful and kind and does not pretend Ivan will get well.
(b) As if he will be left some money if he is nice to Ivan.
(c) The same as everyone else.
(d) As though he is glad to see Ivan go.

10. 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) The periodic table.
(c) The proposal he gave his wife so long ago.
(d) His whole life and all his relationships.

11. What does Ivan realize the further back in his memories he goes?
(a) He wishes he could re-live them.
(b) The more of these distant memories he has than of recent times.
(c) The more there was that was good in life, the more life there was.
(d) He really has had a wonderful life.

12. How does Ivan relieve his suffering that night in Chapter 9?
(a) He listens to his daughter sing softly.
(b) He has a good cry.
(c) He calls his son to his side.
(d) He takes more medicine than the doctor suggested.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most people act toward Ivan?

2. How long does Ivan ponder his broader concept about life before his actual death?

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

4. Of what does Ivan's wife try to convince him?

5. What does Ivan do for the last three days of his life?

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