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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 14.

4. What is Schramm's job title?
(a) Narrative guide.
(b) Official sight illuminator.
(c) Rural enjoyment monitor.
(d) Special stimulator.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Bureau's song equate with solitude?

2. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?

3. After dinner, what do the other tour members insist that Ivanovich do?

4. 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)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of things does Ivanovich feel passion for, and what kinds of things does he dislike?

2. What role does singing seem to play on the tour that Ivanovich is on?

3. What happens at dinnertime on the first day of the trip?

4. On the third day of the tour, what does Ivanovich see that makes him feel the happiness he dreamed he might find on the trip?

5. Why does Ivanovich try to avoid singing the songs, and what happens when he is only pretending to sing?

6. Who is Schramm and what function does he serve on the trip?

7. What does Ivanovich do at each of the train stations on the first day of the trip, and what does this show about his character?

8. What is frustrating for Ivanovich about the beauty in the landscapes he sees from the train?

9. What does Ivanovich do as soon as he sits down in the train on the first morning of the trip, and what is the group's reaction?

10. How does Ivanovich end up losing the game that they play on the train, and what happens as a consequence?

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