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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time of the morning is Ivanovich supposed to report for the tour?
(a) 5 a.m.
(b) 11 a.m.
(c) 9 a.m.
(d) 7 a.m.

2. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?
(a) 7 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 3 months.

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

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

5. 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 tower in the shape of a digit, like a toe or finger.
(c) An architectural figure of a bird.
(d) A type of stone used in medieval constructions.

6. 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 hidden gem.
(b) An animal.
(c) A laborer.
(d) A statue.

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

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

9. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?
(a) A goose.
(b) A pretty girl.
(c) The innkeeper.
(d) A puppy.

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

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

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

13. 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 circuitous.
(c) The language becomes more grandiloquent.
(d) The language becomes more lyrical.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The group leader wears "Tyrolese" clothing. What is true of his clothing?

3. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?

4. What does the narrator remember about the time of year in which the story takes place?

5. What is unusual about the four people who work together?

(see the answer keys)

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