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

2. What is special about the room at the inn by the lake?
(a) Its decor.
(b) Its view.
(c) Its library.
(d) Its price.

3. 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.

4. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?
(a) "Creatures still unknown to us."
(b) "Things seen in a dream."
(c) "The really good life."
(d) "Some wonderful, tremulous happiness."

5. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?
(a) The language becomes more conversational.
(b) The language becomes more lyrical.
(c) The language becomes more circuitous.
(d) The language becomes more grandiloquent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?

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

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

4. What is unusual about the four people who work together?

5. On page 19, to what does the narrator compare Ivanovich's return journey, away from the lake?

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