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

2. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?
(a) The leaves had begun to turn.
(b) It was damp and cold.
(c) It was an exceptionally hot summer.
(d) It was shortly after the last snow melted.

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

4. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The group leader is "lanky" (5). What does this mean is true about him?

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

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

4. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?

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

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