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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. What has happened to the main character?
2. When Ivan Ilych gets home from the doctor, what does he do?
3. How many children does Ivan Ilych and his wife have together?
4. After offering his condolences, what does Peter Ivanovich tell Praskovya Fedorovna?
5. What has Ivan Ilych used as an escape from reality?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the irony in Ivan resenting his dying from something so trivial as falling off the step ladder.
2. How does Ivan make his pain worse?
3. How does the opium affect Ivan?
4. Discuss an example of foreshadowing in Chapter 7.
5. Examine the irony in Chapter 8.
6. How does Ivan and his wife's idea of the "good life" extend into Chapter 4?
7. What explanation does Ivan come up with to explain why his past memories make him feel the way they do?
8. Name four components of the plot in Chapter 1.
9. What is ironic about the opening of Chapter 3 when it states that 1880 is "the hardest year of Ivan's life?"
10. What is the conflict that Ivan experiences in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is Tolstoy's own life represented in "The Death of Ivan Ilych?" Include how he grew up, his early adulthood and what he came to believe later in his life. Be sure to include supporting evidence from the novel as well as independent biographical information about Leo Tolstoy.
Essay Topic 2
What point-of-view does Tolstoy use in writing "The Death of Ivan Ilych?" Why does this point-of-view better serve Tolstoy's purpose(s) for writing the novel? How does this point-of-view get Tolstoy's themes across? What tone comes from Tolstoy using this point-of-view?
Essay Topic 3
Choose one of the major themes ("We die as we live" or "What constitutes a good life?") and explain what is meant by that theme. How does Tolstoy convey this theme throughout the novel?
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