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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 Schramm's job title?
(a) Narrative guide.
(b) Official sight illuminator.
(c) Rural enjoyment monitor.
(d) Special stimulator.

2. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?
(a) Russian.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) Austrian.

3. What is the "unusual expression" of the lake's water (14)?
(a) An oddly red color.
(b) Ripples that seem to follow Ivanovich along the shore.
(c) A cloud reflected in its center.
(d) Waves moving away from the shore instead of towards it.

4. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Amplification.
(d) Dialect.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is discovered when the group members pool their food for dinner?

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

4. The group leader is "lanky" (5). What does this mean is true about him?

5. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?

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