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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Scornful.
(b) Matter-of-fact.
(c) Skeptical.
(d) Bemused.

2. Who is the author of "Cloud, Castle, Lake"?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Ivan Turgenev
(d) Vladimir Nabokov.

3. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?
(a) Walking.
(b) Digging.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Riding in a car.

4. Who is depicted "in a low-cut gown" on page 4?
(a) Justice.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Fate.

5. What is the job of the older man who talks to Ivanovich about Russia?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Produce distributor.
(c) Paper manufacturer.
(d) Post-office clerk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?

2. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?

3. When the narrator says that the road "undulated," what is being said of this road (12)?

4. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?

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

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