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

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

3. What detail of Ivanovich's appearance seems to impress the narrator?
(a) His elegant clothing.
(b) His athletic physique.
(c) His neatly trimmed hair.
(d) His healthy complexion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ivanovich get to the train on the morning of his departure?

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

4. The narrator describes a hill covered with "verdure"; what is this hill covered with?

5. At what time of the morning is Ivanovich supposed to report for the tour?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Describe the game that the passengers come up with to play on the train.

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

5. With whom does Ivanovich spend the first night, and how does this person keep Ivanovich awake?

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

7. 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?

8. Describe the leader of the group excursion.

9. 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?

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

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