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

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

3. What technique is used in the phrase "toward a train lurking behind other trains"?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Personification.
(d) Cacophony.

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

5. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator's attitude toward the absurd process that Ivanovich is told he must follow to sell back the tickets?

3. What detail of Ivanovich's appearance seems to impress the narrator?

4. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?

5. When the man tells stories about his "philanderings," what is he talking about (5)?

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