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

2. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?
(a) Digging.
(b) Riding in a car.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Walking.

3. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?
(a) He tries to read his book.
(b) He speaks Russian in his sleep.
(c) He accidentally trips one of the women.
(d) He loses a game.

4. What detail is the narrator uncertain if he is remembering correctly?
(a) The time of day the tour departed.
(b) Ivanovich's name.
(c) The destination of the tour.
(d) The source of the tour tickets.

5. What instrument does one of the men insist on teaching Ivanovich to play?
(a) Mandolin.
(b) Balalaika.
(c) Fiddle.
(d) Ukulele.

Short Answer Questions

1. On page 19, to what does the narrator compare Ivanovich's return journey, away from the lake?

2. Where is Ivanovich told he will need to get a "certificate of non-absence from the city for the summertime" (3)?

3. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?

4. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?

5. From context, what is the likely meaning of the word "dactyl" in "On the other side...towered, arising from dactyl to dactyl, an ancient black castle" (14)?

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