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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan Ilych do the more he senses that his wife is bored all the time?
(a) He carves out a life independent from her.
(b) He tries harder to make her happy.
(c) He takes her on vacation.
(d) He buys a home near the sea.

2. What is Praskovya Fedorovna's relationship to the main character?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Servant.
(c) Son.
(d) Wife.

3. How much money does Ivan Ilych need to be paid?
(a) At least 5,000 rubles.
(b) Enough to buy a summer house.
(c) Enough to afford to send his son to medical school.
(d) No less than 10,000 rubles.

4. Why doesn't Ivan Ilych change his life?
(a) His wife won't let him change it.
(b) He has no imagination for creating another life.
(c) He doesn't have enough money to change it the way he wants it.
(d) He likes his life as it is.

5. What does Ivan Ilych hear down the hall?
(a) Footsteps.
(b) His family getting the house ready for the party that night.
(c) His family visiting with his brother-in-law.
(d) An intruder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ivan Ilych able to find a new home that will please both him and his wife?

2. What did Peter Ivanovich realize as he was speaking to Praskovya Fedorovna?

3. Once settled, what makes Ivan Ilych irritable?

4. Ivan Ilych knows he gave his life to what?

5. When Peter Ivanovich encounters Ivan Ilych's daughter and fiance, how to they look?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss how Ivan's memories of the past make him feel.

2. Identify the crisis for Ivan in Chapter 5.

3. Describe the relationship between Ivan and his wife.

4. Name four components of the plot in Chapter 1.

5. What is the climax, or turning point, in "The Death of Ivan Ilych?"

6. How could Ivan's death serve as an awakening for his lifetime acquaintance, Peter? Does Peter avail himself of this awakening?

7. Describe Gerasim.

8. Compare and contrast Ivan's wife and Gerasim in Chapter 8.

9. Describe Ivan's appearance in Chapter 5.

10. Discuss the irony in Ivan resenting his dying from something so trivial as falling off the step ladder.

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