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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?
(a) The outsider.
(b) The hermit.
(c) The artist.
(d) The loner.

2. Who is the author of "Cloud, Castle, Lake"?
(a) Ivan Turgenev
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

3. After dinner, what do the other tour members insist that Ivanovich do?
(a) Teach them a few words of Russian.
(b) Prove that he knows where they are going.
(c) Practice speaking German more clearly.
(d) Sing a solo.

4. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?
(a) Flourishing plants.
(b) Rotting plants.
(c) Cultivated plants.
(d) Sprouting plants.

5. The group leader is "lanky" (5). What does this mean is true about him?
(a) He is tall and thin.
(b) He looks unhealthy.
(c) He moves stiffly.
(d) He is athletic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?

2. When the narrator says that the road "undulated," what is being said of this road (12)?

3. What "fancy-style" item does Ivanovich buy for his trip (3)?

4. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?

5. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?

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