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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) Riding in a car.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Digging.

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

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

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

5. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?
(a) Austrian.
(b) Russian.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Schramm's job title?

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

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

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