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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Cloud, Castle, Lake".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is discovered when the group members pool their food for dinner?
(a) Most of the food has been spoiled by the long journey.
(b) Ivanovich is the only one who has brought something different.
(c) Some have brought very little food along.
(d) The women are unwilling to prepare the food for the men.

2. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?
(a) The group leader is losing power to Schramm.
(b) The other group members are starting to dislike Schramm.
(c) The others are melding together into one collective being.
(d) The others are becoming more tolerant of his eccentricities.

3. How does Ivanovich get to the train on the morning of his departure?
(a) He takes a taxi.
(b) He takes a streetcar.
(c) The narrator drives him.
(d) He walks.

4. How late is Ivanovich running on the morning the tour leaves?
(a) 1 minute.
(b) 12 minutes.
(c) 18 minutes.
(d) 3 minutes.

5. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?
(a) Russian.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) Austrian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?

2. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?

3. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?

4. What is Ivanovich expected to carry during the second day of the tour?

5. What does the Bureau's song equate with solitude?

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