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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

2. Who hosted the charity ball where Ivanovich won the tour?
(a) The narrator's business.
(b) The German government.
(c) A German tourism trade group.
(d) Russian refugees.

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

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

5. Who wrote the book that Ivanovich opens on the train?
(a) Donne.
(b) Tiutchev.
(c) Goethe.
(d) De Viau.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the description of the "mother-of-pearl claws on his dirty toes," what is the man with whom Ivanovich spends the night being compared to (12)?

2. When the man tells stories about his "philanderings," what is he talking about (5)?

3. What word does the narrator say describes the appearance of "all creatures still unknown to us" (4)?

4. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?

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

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