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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hosted the charity ball where Ivanovich won the tour?
(a) Russian refugees.
(b) The narrator's business.
(c) A German tourism trade group.
(d) The German government.

2. How does Ivanovich get to the train on the morning of his departure?
(a) He takes a taxi.
(b) He walks.
(c) He takes a streetcar.
(d) The narrator drives him.

3. The group leader is "lanky" (5). What does this mean is true about him?
(a) He is athletic.
(b) He is tall and thin.
(c) He moves stiffly.
(d) He looks unhealthy.

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

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

6. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Riding in a car.
(c) Digging.
(d) Walking.

7. 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 group leader is losing power to Schramm.
(c) The others are becoming more tolerant of his eccentricities.
(d) The others are melding together into one collective being.

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

9. 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)?
(a) An image found in a metrical foot of poetry.
(b) A type of stone used in medieval constructions.
(c) A tower in the shape of a digit, like a toe or finger.
(d) An architectural figure of a bird.

10. When the man tells stories about his "philanderings," what is he talking about (5)?
(a) Donations to charity.
(b) Casual sexual relationships.
(c) Stamp collecting.
(d) Getting very drunk with friends.

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

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

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

14. What description does the narrator give of the train car on page 5?
(a) It is "unmistakably third-class."
(b) It "echoes like a tin box."
(c) It is "cattle-car bare."
(d) It "reeks of holiday revelry."

15. 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 loner.
(b) The outsider.
(c) The hermit.
(d) The artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ivanovich enjoy reading?

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

3. What does Ivanovich do when he first sees the view of the lake?

4. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?

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

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