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

3. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?
(a) "Creatures still unknown to us."
(b) "Some wonderful, tremulous happiness."
(c) "The really good life."
(d) "Things seen in a dream."

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

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

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

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

8. What does the Bureau's song equate with solitude?
(a) Independence.
(b) Depression.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Criminality.

9. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?
(a) His friends.
(b) His childhood.
(c) Music.
(d) Work.

10. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator's attitude toward the absurd process that Ivanovich is told he must follow to sell back the tickets?
(a) Bemused.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Scornful.
(d) Matter-of-fact.

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

12. 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 lyrical.
(d) The language becomes more grandiloquent.

13. 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.

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

15. 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 anonymity of all the parts of a landscape."
(d) The "configuration of some entirely insignificant objects."