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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Death of Ivan Ilych.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ivan Ilych at the beginning of "The Death of Ivan Ilych"?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A law school graduate.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A bureaucrat.

2. Who is Katya?
(a) A shop girl.
(b) A governess.
(c) A seamstress.
(d) A milliner.

3. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych felt upon taking his position at the Court of Justice?
(a) Content and happy.
(b) Anxious and depressed.
(c) Proud and apprehensive.
(d) Miserable and filled with dread.

4. Why does Marya's depression return?
(a) Winter.
(b) Her mother dies.
(c) Her brother comes to visit.
(d) Sergey leave for a trip.

5. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?
(a) Christian Cossacks.
(b) Turks.
(c) Lawless mountain people.
(d) Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marya say her marriage to Sergey affects her relationship with the world?

2. Why does Dmitri return home quickly after hunting?

3. What is the significance of the Terek River?

4. What does Marya find after she gives birth?

5. With whom did the Grebensk Cossacks intermarry?

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