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

2. What does the Bureau's song equate with solitude?
(a) Criminality.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Independence.
(d) Depression.

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

4. What "fancy-style" item does Ivanovich buy for his trip (3)?
(a) A walking stick.
(b) An enormous backpack.
(c) A flannel shirt.
(d) A pair of hiking boots.

5. What is Ivanovich expected to carry during the second day of the tour?
(a) His own boots.
(b) Sausage.
(c) An extra rucksack.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

4. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?

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

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