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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Cloud, Castle, Lake"?
(a) Ivan Turgenev
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer 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)?

2. What "fancy-style" item does Ivanovich buy for his trip (3)?

3. At the inn near the lake, what nationality does Ivanovich believe the innkeeper to be?

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

5. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?

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