What is the correct order of events in ivan ilyich’s life as depicted in chapters 5–8 of tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich?

ivan ilyich tries to read a zola novel while convincing himself that he is healing, but his pain returns worse than ever.

ivan ilyich tries to distract himself from his death by resuming his professional duties as a judge but fails.

ivan ilyich visits a specialist who tells him that his vermiform appendix is the problem.

ivan ilyich tries to use the logic of caius the mortal to try to make sense of dying but fails.

ivan ilyich watches his family leave to go to the theater and finally gains some peace.

This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

What does the word "rhetoric" mean?