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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How late is Ivanovich running on the morning the tour leaves?
(a) 1 minute.
(b) 12 minutes.
(c) 18 minutes.
(d) 3 minutes.

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

3. 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."

4. What does Ivanovich do when he first sees the view of the lake?
(a) Falls to his knees.
(b) Begins to weep.
(c) Presses his hand to his heart.
(d) Gasps aloud.

5. What detail of Ivanovich's appearance seems to impress the narrator?
(a) His neatly trimmed hair.
(b) His healthy complexion.
(c) His athletic physique.
(d) His elegant clothing.

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

7. The group leader wears "Tyrolese" clothing. What is true of his clothing?
(a) It is traditionally worn by shepherds.
(b) It is traditionally worn by servants.
(c) It is traditionally worn in the Black Forest region.
(d) It is traditionally worn in the Austrian Alps.

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

9. What is Schramm's job title?
(a) Rural enjoyment monitor.
(b) Official sight illuminator.
(c) Narrative guide.
(d) Special stimulator.

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

11. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?
(a) He speaks Russian in his sleep.
(b) He accidentally trips one of the women.
(c) He tries to read his book.
(d) He loses a game.

12. Who is the author of "Cloud, Castle, Lake"?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Vladimir Nabokov.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Ivan Turgenev

13. 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 artist.
(c) The hermit.
(d) The loner.

14. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?
(a) He is the man who was once in love with the narrator's wife.
(b) He is the narrator's former employee.
(c) He is a man whom the narrator met on a group tour.
(d) He is the narrator's brother-in-law.

15. What does Ivanovich enjoy reading?
(a) English metaphysical poetry.
(b) French Baroque poetry.
(c) Russian lyrical poetry.
(d) German Classical poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the "unusual expression" of the lake's water (14)?

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