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

2. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?
(a) The "configuration of some entirely insignificant objects."
(b) "The anonymity of all the parts of a landscape."
(c) "A memory of love, disguised as a meadow."
(d) The "charm the world acquires when it is wound up and moving like a merry-go-round."

3. What technique is used in the sentence "The burning sun crept toward a corner of the window and suddenly spilled over the yellow bench" (6)?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Juxtaposition.
(d) Simile.

4. What is unusual about the four people who work together?
(a) All of them quit their jobs right before this trip.
(b) The men are married to the two women's sisters.
(c) Two have the same last name and two have the same first name.
(d) They work for the same employer but have never met until this trip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How late is Ivanovich running on the morning the tour leaves?

2. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?

3. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?

4. Where is Ivanovich told he will need to get a "certificate of non-absence from the city for the summertime" (3)?

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

(see the answer key)

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