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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 technique is used in the phrase "toward a train lurking behind other trains"?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Personification.

2. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?
(a) It was shortly after the last snow melted.
(b) The leaves had begun to turn.
(c) It was damp and cold.
(d) It was an exceptionally hot summer.

3. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?
(a) By throwing a sausage at him.
(b) By slapping him.
(c) By pouring water on him.
(d) By singing loudly in his ear.

4. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?
(a) Music.
(b) Work.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His friends.

5. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?
(a) The language becomes more circuitous.
(b) The language becomes more conversational.
(c) The language becomes more lyrical.
(d) The language becomes more grandiloquent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What instrument does one of the men insist on teaching Ivanovich to play?

3. Which character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?

4. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?

5. How late is Ivanovich running on the morning the tour leaves?

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