Iwoke up to a loud noise at four in the morning. the people here seem to dislike sleeping. i reluctantly got out of bed and looked at my schedule. i had to get ready and head to the main hall for an orientation session in half an hour. by the time i managed to reach the main hall, it was half an hour too late. beverages had been served, and everyone else was seated. i had to dislodge an entire row of students to get to a seat. i fell asleep during the presentation. when i woke up again, i found myself in an empty hall. i checked the time, and it was eleven thirty in the morning. when i went to the cafeteria to get some food, they had already stopped serving breakfast. resigned to the fact that the day was not going to get any better, i went back to my room to sleep. i wished it were just a bad dream from which i would wake up. which type of text structure is used in this excerpt from a freshman's diary? problem and solution chronological sequence description compare and contrasti believe it's problem and solution.

Select the correct answer. what opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasim recognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimes all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly became familiar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone did not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out: "we shall all of us die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate people. b. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth century. c. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. d. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.