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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 "Wispy clouds—greyhounds of heaven" (6)?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Allegory.

2. What is the "unusual expression" of the lake's water (14)?
(a) An oddly red color.
(b) A cloud reflected in its center.
(c) Ripples that seem to follow Ivanovich along the shore.
(d) Waves moving away from the shore instead of towards it.

3. What is unusual about the four people who work together?
(a) All of them quit their jobs right before this trip.
(b) They work for the same employer but have never met until this trip.
(c) Two have the same last name and two have the same first name.
(d) The men are married to the two women's sisters.

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

5. How does Ivanovich get to the train on the morning of his departure?
(a) He takes a taxi.
(b) He walks.
(c) He takes a streetcar.
(d) The narrator drives him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the group make Ivanovich eat a cigarette butt?

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

3. The group leader is "lanky" (5). What does this mean is true about him?

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

5. Whom does the Bureau's song recommend should be "killed" by a walk in the countryside with "the good, the hearty guys" (9)?

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