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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in the phrase "toward a train lurking behind other trains"?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Cacophony.
(d) Personification.

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

3. At what time of the morning is Ivanovich supposed to report for the tour?
(a) 9 a.m.
(b) 5 a.m.
(c) 7 a.m.
(d) 11 a.m.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the job of the older man who talks to Ivanovich about Russia?

2. What does Ivanovich do to distract himself from "the absurdity and horror of the situation" (6)?

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

4. Which detail of the group leader's appearance is associated with authoritarianism?

5. Where is Ivanovich told he will need to get a "certificate of non-absence from the city for the summertime" (3)?

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