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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 character is said to have "lustreless eyes and a vague velvety vileness" (6)?
(a) Schramm.
(b) Schultz.
(c) Greta.
(d) The widow.

2. From context, what is the likely meaning of the word "dactyl" in "On the other side...towered, arising from dactyl to dactyl, an ancient black castle" (14)?
(a) A tower in the shape of a digit, like a toe or finger.
(b) A type of stone used in medieval constructions.
(c) An image found in a metrical foot of poetry.
(d) An architectural figure of a bird.

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

4. What is the job of the older man who talks to Ivanovich about Russia?
(a) Paper manufacturer.
(b) Post-office clerk.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Produce distributor.

5. In the exclamation "How I hate you, our daily!" what technique is being used (13)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Dialect.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Amplification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Including Ivanovich and the Bureau employees, how many people are in the tour group?

2. When Ivanovich falls asleep on the third day of the tour, how do the others wake him up?

3. What is the tour group doing in the passage that says "they raised dust along a highway" (12)?

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

5. In the description of the "mother-of-pearl claws on his dirty toes," what is the man with whom Ivanovich spends the night being compared to (12)?

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