The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Ivan Ilyich initially sees death as darkness. Later, when he accepts death, he sees it as "light." What literary device?

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Paradox

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What, according to Tolstoy, is the REAL THING?

• propriety

• love

• religion

• honesty

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When were the best times in Ivan Ilyich's life?

• law school

• marriage

• childhood

• parenthood

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How does Praskovya Fyodorovna view Ivan Ilyich's three straight days of screaming?

• As terribly sad for her husband

• As terribly difficult for her children

• As terribly burdensome for herself

• As terribly sad for herself

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How does the daughter view Ivan Ilyich's illness?

• A burden and inconvenience

• Very sad

• She's angry about it

• She wishes it wouldn't happen

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Pyotor Ivanovich sees the warning on Ivan Ilyich's face in the coffin, and he immediately dismisses the idea that it could apply to him. This is because according to Tolstoy, most people in the upper class in Russia in the 1800s

• are ready and willing to die when it is their time

• are afraid of and in denial of their own death

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Ivan Ilyich's look on his face in the coffin is one that says that

• what needed to be done was done and done properly

• a warning to the living

• a greater significance in death than he had in life

• All of the above

The warning on Ivan Ilyich's face in the coffin warns that

• everyone will die someday and that people shouldn't live by following propriety

• propriety is cool

• be careful with ladders

What is Tolstoy's message for even the worst of human beings?

• They still have time to make it right

• They don't stand a chance

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What is Tolstoy's message about love?

• It isn't necessary in the upper class of Russia in the 1800s

• It's the most important thing in life

• You don't need it to get married if you follow propriety

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