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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is special about the room at the inn by the lake?
(a) Its view.
(b) Its price.
(c) Its decor.
(d) Its library.

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

3. What technique is used in the story's title?
(a) Non Sequitur.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Euphony.

4. What is Ivanovich expected to carry during the second day of the tour?
(a) Sausage.
(b) An extra rucksack.
(c) His own boots.
(d) Bread.

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

6. Which of the following describes the group leader accurately?
(a) He is badly sunburned.
(b) He has eyes of two different colors.
(c) He has unusually long hair.
(d) He is missing one front tooth.

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

8. When the narrator says that the road "undulated," what is being said of this road (12)?
(a) It varies in width.
(b) It gently rises and falls.
(c) It curves sharply.
(d) It abruptly ends.

9. Which detail of the group leader's appearance is associated with authoritarianism?
(a) Tyrolese clothing.
(b) Knapsack.
(c) Walking stick.
(d) Hobnailed boots.

10. What technique is used in the phrase "toward a train lurking behind other trains"?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Personification.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

12. What instrument does one of the men insist on teaching Ivanovich to play?
(a) Ukulele.
(b) Fiddle.
(c) Mandolin.
(d) Balalaika.

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

14. In the description of the "mother-of-pearl claws on his dirty toes," what is the man with whom Ivanovich spends the night being compared to (12)?
(a) A statue.
(b) A laborer.
(c) An animal.
(d) A hidden gem.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?

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

4. Who wrote the book that Ivanovich opens on the train?

5. When the man tells stories about his "philanderings," what is he talking about (5)?

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