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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Ivan Ilych react to his realization the way he does?
2. What does Ivan Ilych think of his marriage?
3. Why does Ivan Ilych think that his case might not be so serious after all?
4. How does the doctor respond when Ivan Ilych presses him for an answer to the seriousness of his symptoms?
5. Ivan Ilych knows he gave his life to what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ivan cope with the knowledge that he is dying?
2. What is ironic about the opening of Chapter 3 when it states that 1880 is "the hardest year of Ivan's life?"
3. Is the author's definition of the "good life" the same as that of Ivan and his wife? Support your answer.
4. Initially, how did Ivan react to this self-revelation in Chapter 5?
5. How does Gerasim view death?
6. Describe how Ivan's condition is affecting him in Chapter 7.
7. Why does Ivan fall into a profound depression?
8. What explanation does Ivan come up with to explain why his past memories make him feel the way they do?
9. How does Ivan and his wife's idea of the "good life" extend into Chapter 4?
10. Why do Ivan's wife and his doctor give him opium?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Ivan learn from his suffering and death? How does Tolstoy use suffering and death in "The Death of Ivan Ilych?"
Essay Topic 2
Why does Tolstoy choose to use the flashback technique in Chapter 1 when he begins the novel with the funeral? How does Tolstoy's use of this technique help to get the themes across?
Essay Topic 3
Explain and support how "The Death of Ivan Ilych" can change a reader's ideas about how to live. Look at the theme of the novel to answer the question. How has Ivan lived? Does Tolstoy's writing endorse Ivan's way of life? Does the tone of Tolstoy's writing warn against the way Ivan has lived?
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