2. What does Ivan Ilych ultimately realize about his wife?
(a) That he hates her.
(b) That he cannot live without her.
(c) The she will not be able to live without him.
(d) That he loves her.

3. What was Ivan Ilych promoted to after three years in his second position?
(a) Surgeon.
(b) Assistant public prosecutor.
(c) Judge.
(d) Provincial director.

4. How does Tolstoy describe Marya and Sergey's feelings for each other?
(a) Head over heels in love.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Indifferent to each other.
(d) Respectful and moderately affectionate.

5. What is Maryanka's response when Dmitri asks her whether they can marry?
(a) She tells him he is foolish.
(b) She refuses him.
(c) She pleads with him to let her marry Lukashka.
(d) She agrees.

6. What does Sergey tease Marya about?
(a) Her housekeeping.
(b) Her ignorance of French literature.
(c) Her coquettish nature.
(d) Her dark sense of humor.

7. Where does Marya yearn for through the winter?
(a) Greece.
(b) Paris.
(c) Petersburg.
(d) Moscow.

8. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?
(a) That they are independent.
(b) That they are flawed.
(c) That they are perfect.
(d) That they each depend on the other.

9. What does Maryanka do when Dmitri returns to Russia?
(a) She does not look at him.
(b) She comes with him.
(c) She cries openly.
(d) She watches him from a prominent place where he can see her.

10. What are Ivan Ilych's symptoms of the illness that kills him?
(a) Pain in his joints and neck.
(b) A strange taste in his mouth.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Hearing loss.

11. What did Ivan Ilych find in place of death?
(a) Light.
(b) Language.
(c) God.
(d) Fury.

12. Why did Liza Annenskaya hire Stepanida?
(a) To nurse her baby.
(b) To clean the house.
(c) To weave tapestries.
(d) To teach the child.

13. How does Tolstoy say Liza Annenskaya acts on her jealousy?
(a) She has affairs of her own.
(b) She controls it.
(c) She flies into rages.
(d) She becomes depressed.

14. Why does Eugene Irtenev move to the Semenov estate?
(a) To care for his mother.
(b) To see to some repairs.
(c) To implement new laws.
(d) To intervene in a conflict with the tenants.

15. Does Stepanida have Eugene Irtenev's child?
(a) Yes.
(b) He is not sure.
(c) She tells him it is his, but he finds out it is not.
(d) No.