Gloat in the sentence means to brag. Basically, the third selection. "To make fun of someone."
Hopefully this helps :)
The Rene is the wolfs clothing
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "1 Ivan Ilyich tries to read a Zola novel while convincing himself that he is healing, but his pain returns worse than ever."<span> the correct order of events in Ivan Ilyich’s life as depicted in chapters 5–8 of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich.</span>
