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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 is special about the room at the inn by the lake?
(a) Its library.
(b) Its view.
(c) Its decor.
(d) Its price.

2. What word does the narrator say describes the appearance of "all creatures still unknown to us" (4)?
(a) "Drowsy."
(b) "Cryptic."
(c) "Innocent."
(d) "Formidable."

3. What description does the narrator give of the train car on page 5?
(a) It "reeks of holiday revelry."
(b) It "echoes like a tin box."
(c) It is "unmistakably third-class."
(d) It is "cattle-car bare."

4. 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 grandiloquent.
(b) The language becomes more lyrical.
(c) The language becomes more conversational.
(d) The language becomes more circuitous.

5. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?
(a) "A memory of love, disguised as a meadow."
(b) "The anonymity of all the parts of a landscape."
(c) The "configuration of some entirely insignificant objects."
(d) The "charm the world acquires when it is wound up and moving like a merry-go-round."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?

5. 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)?

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