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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Cloud, Castle, Lake".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the man tells stories about his "philanderings," what is he talking about (5)?
(a) Stamp collecting.
(b) Donations to charity.
(c) Casual sexual relationships.
(d) Getting very drunk with friends.

2. Who wrote the book that Ivanovich opens on the train?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Donne.
(c) Tiutchev.
(d) De Viau.

3. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?
(a) Music.
(b) Work.
(c) His friends.
(d) His childhood.

4. 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 "cattle-car bare."
(d) It is "unmistakably third-class."

5. What technique is used in the story's title?
(a) Euphony.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Non Sequitur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Schramm's job title?

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

3. Which detail of the group leader's appearance is associated with authoritarianism?

4. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?

5. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?

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