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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?
(a) By pouring water on him.
(b) By slapping him.
(c) By throwing a sausage at him.
(d) By singing loudly in his ear.

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

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

5. In the description of the "mother-of-pearl claws on his dirty toes," what is the man with whom Ivanovich spends the night being compared to (12)?
(a) A hidden gem.
(b) An animal.
(c) A statue.
(d) A laborer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?

4. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

5. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?

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