The author builds tension at the end of the excerpt by— Answer choices for the above question A. hinting that the Whites will soon receive the 200 pounds. B. indicating Mrs. White is unaware of what is happening. C. suggesting that Mrs. White suspects there is something wrong. D. implying that Mr. White is uncomfortable talking to the men.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.