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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Cloud, Castle, Lake".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which detail of the group leader's appearance is associated with authoritarianism?
(a) Knapsack.
(b) Hobnailed boots.
(c) Walking stick.
(d) Tyrolese clothing.

2. What description does the narrator give of the train car on page 5?
(a) It is "cattle-car bare."
(b) It "echoes like a tin box."
(c) It is "unmistakably third-class."
(d) It "reeks of holiday revelry."

3. 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 throwing a sausage at him.
(c) By pouring water on him.
(d) By slapping him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?

2. What is special about the room at the inn by the lake?

3. What detail is the narrator uncertain if he is remembering correctly?

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

5. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?

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