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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. When Ivan Ilych looks in the mirror some time after greeting his brother-in-law, what does he see for the first time?
(a) How healthy he now looks.
(b) A tumor.
(c) How thin and yellow he has become.
(d) How old he really is.

2. 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 buys a home near the sea.
(c) He tries harder to make her happy.
(d) He takes her on vacation.

3. How does Ivan Ilych's wife react to his worsening pain?
(a) She insists he see a doctor.
(b) She criticizes him for fixing the curtain.
(c) She ignores him.
(d) She chastises him for whining.

4. What does Ivan Ilych admit to himself for the first time after seeing himself in the mirror?
(a) That he is a good man.
(b) That he is an excellent husband.
(c) That he is dying.
(d) That he really wished he'd gone to medical school instead of becoming a lawyer.

5. When Peter Ivanovich encounters Ivan Ilych's daughter and fiance, how to they look?
(a) Inconvienenced.
(b) Happy together.
(c) Ready to cry.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Ivan Ilych much distress?

2. How many children does Ivan Ilych and his wife have together?

3. What is the conflict in Chapter 5?

4. Why are his wife and daughter anxious when Ivan Ilych arrives home?

5. Which character does Chapter 2 discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ivan cope with the knowledge that he is dying?

2. Explain how Ivan can be said to be in the depression stage of dying in Chapter 10.

3. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Chapter 7.

4. How does the opium affect Ivan?

5. What does Gerasim symbolize?

6. Explain the mood in Chapter 6.

7. What is the overarching theme of "The Death of Ivan Ilych?"

8. What does Ivan's wife represent to him? Why does Ivan keep sending his wife out of the room?

9. Why is Ivan so upset that he didn't get the promotion?

10. What does Ivan's self-revelation turn into?

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