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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 does Ivanovich associate with happiness?
(a) Work.
(b) His childhood.
(c) Music.
(d) His friends.

2. 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.

3. 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 circuitous.
(b) The language becomes more lyrical.
(c) The language becomes more conversational.
(d) The language becomes more grandiloquent.

4. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?
(a) The group leader is losing power to Schramm.
(b) The others are melding together into one collective being.
(c) The other group members are starting to dislike Schramm.
(d) The others are becoming more tolerant of his eccentricities.

5. What detail is the narrator uncertain if he is remembering correctly?
(a) Ivanovich's name.
(b) The destination of the tour.
(c) The source of the tour tickets.
(d) The time of day the tour departed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?

2. 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)?

3. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?

4. After dinner, what do the other tour members insist that Ivanovich do?

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

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