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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ivan seriously consider in Chapter 11?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) Murdering his wife.
(c) Living to see his daughter married.
(d) The idea that he has lived wrongly.

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

3. How bad are the affects of these medicines?
(a) Not bad at all.
(b) Bad, but at least they relieve the pain.
(c) As bad as the pain that they are supposed to relieve.
(d) They make him so sick he tries to avoid taking them.

4. When does Ivan recognize that his real life began to ebb?
(a) When he married.
(b) The more he has gone up in public opinion during his adult life.
(c) When he failed to get the promotion at his old job.
(d) The moment he fell off the step ladder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ivan begin to question in Chapter 9?

2. What does Ivan try to hang onto at the end of his life?

3. Why does Ivan try to hang onto what he does at the end of his life?

4. How does Gerasim treat Ivan?

5. What does Ivan realize the further back in his memories he goes?

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