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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) 3 years.
(c) 7 months.
(d) 7 years.

2. What detail is the narrator uncertain if he is remembering correctly?
(a) The time of day the tour departed.
(b) The destination of the tour.
(c) Ivanovich's name.
(d) The source of the tour tickets.

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

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

5. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich do to distract himself from "the absurdity and horror of the situation" (6)?

2. What does the Bureau's song equate with solitude?

3. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

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

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

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