How does the setting affect the speaker at the end of the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee"? A: The quiet setting of the Arctic convinces the speaker to visit Sam McGee's home in Tennessee.

B: The distant setting of the Arctic motivates the speaker to travel a long distance to find Sam McGee.

C: The strange setting of the Arctic causes the speaker to see Sam McGee in the furnace, alive and warm.

D: The unfamiliar setting of the Arctic causes the speaker to lose his mind at the end of the poem.

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.