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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Cloud, Castle, Lake".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?
(a) The outsider.
(b) The hermit.
(c) The artist.
(d) The loner.

2. What is the job of the older man who talks to Ivanovich about Russia?
(a) Produce distributor.
(b) Paper manufacturer.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Post-office clerk.

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

4. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?
(a) "The anonymity of all the parts of a landscape."
(b) The "configuration of some entirely insignificant objects."
(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."

5. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Dialect.
(d) Amplification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?

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

3. From context, what is the likely meaning of the word "dactyl" in "On the other side...towered, arising from dactyl to dactyl, an ancient black castle" (14)?

4. What instrument does one of the men insist on teaching Ivanovich to play?

5. One woman is described as "burlesque" (6). From the context, which is most likely true?

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