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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 did Peter Ivanovich realize as he was speaking to Praskovya Fedorovna?
2. Where does Ivan try to work?
3. Where does Ivan Ilych take his family when he takes a leave of absence from his job?
4. What does Ivan Ilych recognize in the doctor's professional air?
5. What game does Ivan Ilych like to play?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ivan stop doing in Chapter 11?
2. What is Ivan's feeling of suffocation symbolize in Chapter 12?
3. Name four components of the plot in Chapter 1.
4. Why does Ivan fall into a profound depression?
5. How does Ivan respond to not getting the promotion and why?
6. Discuss the irony in Ivan resenting his dying from something so trivial as falling off the step ladder.
7. Explain how reactions to Ivan's death by Gerasim and Ivan's son differ from the reactions of all the other characters in Chapter 1.
8. Describe how Ivan's condition is affecting him in Chapter 7.
9. Describe how Ivan and others' initial response to his illness are classic examples of the denial stage of dying.
10. What explanation does Ivan come up with to explain why his past memories make him feel the way they do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is 19th century Russia presented in "The Death of Ivan Ilych?" Be certain to support your claims by using text from the novel as well as independent sources that describe 19th century Russia.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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