Question

Choose the sentences in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich that suggest that doctors, like lawyers, are part of the superficial middle-class world of nineteenth century Russia.
He went. Everything took place as he had expected and as it always does. There was the usual waiting and the important air assumed by the doctor, with which he was so familiar (resembling that which he himself assumed in court), and the sounding and listening, and the questions which called for answers that were foregone conclusions and were evidently unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that “if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything — we know indubitably how it has to be done, always in the same way for everybody alike.” It was all just as it was in the law courts. The doctor put on just the same air towards him as he himself put on towards an accused person.

Answer 1

Answer: the corrrect answer is the doctor put on just the same air towards him as he himself put on towards an accused person.

Answer 2

The sentence that suggest that doctors, like lawyers are part of superficial middle-class world of nineteenth century Rusia is:

The doctor put on just the same air towards him as he himself put on towards an accused person.