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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. Who is Ivan Ilych's wife?
2. What major theme of the novel is introduced in Chapter 6?
3. What is the setting of Chapter 1?
4. How old is Ivan Ilych's son?
5. What has happened to the main character?
Short Essay Questions
1. Ivan's realization about himself in Chapter 11prompts him to discover something about himself. What does he discover and how does it affect him?
2. In Chapter 11, what does Ivan reveal about himself when he was younger, and what happened to it?
3. How does making choices based on convention affect Ivan?
4. How does Gerasim view death?
5. Discuss the irony in Ivan resenting his dying from something so trivial as falling off the step ladder.
6. Describe how Ivan and others' initial response to his illness are classic examples of the denial stage of dying.
7. How does Ivan and his wife's idea of the "good life" extend into Chapter 4?
8. Examine the author's other main theme of this story.
9. What is ironic about the opening of Chapter 3 when it states that 1880 is "the hardest year of Ivan's life?"
10. How could Ivan's death serve as an awakening for his lifetime acquaintance, Peter? Does Peter avail himself of this awakening?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Is Gerasim's being a peasant significant in the novel? Does it affect how he sees the world and how his character develops?
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