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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A goose.
(c) A pretty girl.
(d) The innkeeper.

2. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?
(a) He is the man who was once in love with the narrator's wife.
(b) He is a man whom the narrator met on a group tour.
(c) He is the narrator's brother-in-law.
(d) He is the narrator's former employee.

3. What is unusual about the four people who work together?
(a) Two have the same last name and two have the same first name.
(b) They work for the same employer but have never met until this trip.
(c) All of them quit their jobs right before this trip.
(d) The men are married to the two women's sisters.

4. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?
(a) Russian.
(b) Italian.
(c) Austrian.
(d) German.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?

4. What is the "unusual expression" of the lake's water (14)?

5. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?

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