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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. How does Ivan Ilych respond when confronted with the symptoms of his illness?
2. Why does Ivan Ilych marry?
3. What does the doctor ignore?
4. After seeing himself in the mirror, what does Ivan Ilych finally admit to himself?
5. Even after Ivan Ilych realizes that he is going to die, what kinds of thoughts does he try to think about?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Ivan and others' initial response to his illness are classic examples of the denial stage of dying.
2. In Chapter 2, how does Ivan see his life and why does he think this?
3. Why do Ivan's wife and his doctor give him opium?
4. What is the conflict that Ivan experiences in Chapter 8?
5. When does Ivan's suffering begin to subside?
6. Describe Ivan's realization in Chapter 9.
7. What does Ivan's wife represent to him? Why does Ivan keep sending his wife out of the room?
8. Ivan's realization about himself in Chapter 11prompts him to discover something about himself. What does he discover and how does it affect him?
9. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan reveal about himself when he was younger, and what happened to it?
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Ivan and Gerasim. What is the relationship and/or purpose of these two characters, specifically, in this novel?
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 the "black sack" in Chapter 9. What could the black sack represent to Ivan? Why does Tolstoy use the metaphor of the "black sack?" How does Tolstoy use the metaphor? Do you think Tolstoy uses this metaphor effectively? Can you think of a more effective metaphor Tolstoy could have used to make his point clearer?
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