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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ivanovich expected to carry during the second day of the tour?
(a) An extra rucksack.
(b) Bread.
(c) Sausage.
(d) His own boots.

3. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?
(a) It was damp and cold.
(b) It was shortly after the last snow melted.
(c) The leaves had begun to turn.
(d) It was an exceptionally hot summer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What detail is the narrator uncertain if he is remembering correctly?

2. What does Ivanovich enjoy reading?

3. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?

4. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?

5. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?

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