<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" is as follows:
1. </span><span>Tiles Ivan Ilyich tries to read a Zola novel while convincing himself that he is healing, but his pain returns worse than ever.
2. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich visits a specialist who tells him that his vermiform appendix is the problem
3. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich tries to use the logic of Caius the mortal to try to make sense of dying but fails.
4. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich tries to distract himself from his death by resuming his professional duties as a judge but fails.
5. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich watches his family leave to go to the theater and finally gains some peace.</span>
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Bold best described the tone.
