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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 7 months.
(d) 3 years.

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

3. What does Ivanovich do when he first sees the view of the lake?
(a) Begins to weep.
(b) Gasps aloud.
(c) Falls to his knees.
(d) Presses his hand to his heart.

4. What technique is used in the story's title?
(a) Euphony.
(b) Non Sequitur.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Asyndeton.

5. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?

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

3. What is special about the room at the inn by the lake?

4. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?

5. Who wrote the book that Ivanovich opens on the train?

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