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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?
(a) He speaks Russian in his sleep.
(b) He loses a game.
(c) He accidentally trips one of the women.
(d) He tries to read his book.

2. What is discovered when the group members pool their food for dinner?
(a) The women are unwilling to prepare the food for the men.
(b) Ivanovich is the only one who has brought something different.
(c) Most of the food has been spoiled by the long journey.
(d) Some have brought very little food along.

3. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Metaphor.

4. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?
(a) The artist.
(b) The hermit.
(c) The loner.
(d) The outsider.

5. Who wrote the book that Ivanovich opens on the train?
(a) Tiutchev.
(b) Donne.
(c) Goethe.
(d) De Viau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

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

3. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?

4. Who is the author of "Cloud, Castle, Lake"?

5. What is the job of the older man who talks to Ivanovich about Russia?

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