Select the correct answerwhat opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, temble act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almostindecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum whichhe had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasimrecognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimesall night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly becamefamiliar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone didnot lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simplyfelt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out "we shall all ofus die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "-expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing itfor a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. o a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate peopleb. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth centuryc. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. od. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant – and a raise. at about the same time, wash got a job, too. six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. by the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story? by connecting readers to his mother’s medical training by connecting readers to the milk-delivery business by connecting readers to wash’s academic success by connecting readers to wash’s daily work routine

In tim o'brien's chapter "good form," what does the narrator say is thehappening-truth? oa. that the man he killed was slim and daintyob. that he has never seen a dying person in his lifeoc. that he killed hundreds of men and remembers all their facesod. that he was afraid to look at the faces of the dead