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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 "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Metaphor.

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

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

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

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)?
(a) An image found in a metrical foot of poetry.
(b) A tower in the shape of a digit, like a toe or finger.
(c) A type of stone used in medieval constructions.
(d) An architectural figure of a bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich enjoy reading?

2. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?

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

4. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?

5. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?

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