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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What technique is used in the sentence "The burning sun crept toward a corner of the window and suddenly spilled over the yellow bench" (6)?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Simile.
(d) Juxtaposition.

3. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?
(a) The other group members are starting to dislike Schramm.
(b) The others are becoming more tolerant of his eccentricities.
(c) The others are melding together into one collective being.
(d) The group leader is losing power to Schramm.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?

3. What description does the narrator give of the train car on page 5?

4. What technique is used in the story's title?

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

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