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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. What is Ivanovich expected to carry during the second day of the tour?
(a) Bread.
(b) Sausage.
(c) An extra rucksack.
(d) His own boots.

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

3. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?
(a) He accidentally trips one of the women.
(b) He loses a game.
(c) He speaks Russian in his sleep.
(d) He tries to read his book.

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

5. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?
(a) By singing loudly in his ear.
(b) By pouring water on him.
(c) By slapping him.
(d) By throwing a sausage at him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is depicted "in a low-cut gown" on page 4?

3. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?

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

5. When the narrator says that the road "undulated," what is being said of this road (12)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is it such a relief to Ivanovich when the tour group finally stops for the night at an inn?

4. What happens when Ivanovich declares that he will stay at the lake instead of returning to Berlin?

5. How does Ivanovich end up going on a tour that he does not want to go on?

6. What is the difference between the narrative descriptions of people and of nature in this story?

7. 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?

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. On the second day of the tour, what is Ivanovich doing from early morning until early evening?

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