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

3. What is discovered when the group members pool their food for dinner?
(a) The women are unwilling to prepare the food for the men.
(b) Some have brought very little food along.
(c) Ivanovich is the only one who has brought something different.
(d) Most of the food has been spoiled by the long journey.

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

5. Which character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?
(a) The widow.
(b) Schramm.
(c) Greta.
(d) Schultz.

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

7. On page 19, to what does the narrator compare Ivanovich's return journey, away from the lake?
(a) A "hideous fairy tale."
(b) A "sinister game."
(c) A "cruel, demeaning prank."
(d) A "soul-shattering nightmare."

8. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?
(a) Flourishing plants.
(b) Rotting plants.
(c) Sprouting plants.
(d) Cultivated plants.

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

10. One woman is described as "burlesque" (6). From the context, which is most likely true?
(a) She is uncomfortably flirtatious.
(b) She works as an exotic dancer in Berlin.
(c) She seems like an exaggerated caricature.
(d) She spends most of the trip making jokes.

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

12. 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 the narrator's brother-in-law.
(d) He is a man whom the narrator met on a group tour.

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

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

15. What technique is used in the phrase "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Synechdoche.