Question

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.

Answer 1

The Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is ‘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.’

Answer 2

The question above is incomplete, the options attached to the question are given below:
A. Ivan Ilyich could recall pleasant days only in his childhood.

B. Ivan Ilyich is thinking of someone’s pleasant childhood.

C. Ivan Ilyich had a pleasant adult life but an unremarkable childhood.

D. Ivan Ilyich couldn’t recall the days he spent as a child

ANSWER

The correct option is A.

From the excerpt given above, it can be seen that when the character in the question started to recall the best moments of his life, it was only those moments that he experienced in his early childhood that stood out and still remain the same. Those moments were very pleasant ones for him and he will be more than glad to experience them again if he possibly can.