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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 does Ivanovich do to distract himself from "the absurdity and horror of the situation" (6)?
(a) Plays solitaire.
(b) Tries to fall asleep.
(c) Looks out the window at the scenery.
(d) Reads his book.

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

3. Who hosted the charity ball where Ivanovich won the tour?
(a) The German government.
(b) The narrator's business.
(c) A German tourism trade group.
(d) Russian refugees.

4. What technique is used in the story's title?
(a) Non Sequitur.
(b) Euphony.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Asyndeton.

5. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?
(a) Rotting plants.
(b) Cultivated plants.
(c) Flourishing plants.
(d) Sprouting plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

2. What is special about the room at the inn by the lake?

3. At what time of the morning is Ivanovich supposed to report for the tour?

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

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

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