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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After dinner, what do the other tour members insist that Ivanovich do?
(a) Prove that he knows where they are going.
(b) Practice speaking German more clearly.
(c) Teach them a few words of Russian.
(d) Sing a solo.

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

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

4. What does Ivanovich do when he first sees the view of the lake?
(a) Gasps aloud.
(b) Begins to weep.
(c) Falls to his knees.
(d) Presses his hand to his heart.

5. From context, what is the likely meaning of the word "dactyl" in "On the other side...towered, arising from dactyl to dactyl, an ancient black castle" (14)?
(a) An architectural figure of a bird.
(b) An image found in a metrical foot of poetry.
(c) A type of stone used in medieval constructions.
(d) A tower in the shape of a digit, like a toe or finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich do to distract himself from "the absurdity and horror of the situation" (6)?

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

3. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

4. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?

5. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?

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