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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) Cacophony.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

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 "reeks of holiday revelry."
(d) It is "unmistakably third-class."

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

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

5. After dinner, what do the other tour members insist that Ivanovich do?
(a) Teach them a few words of Russian.
(b) Sing a solo.
(c) Prove that he knows where they are going.
(d) Practice speaking German more clearly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in the story's title?

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

3. What instrument does one of the men insist on teaching Ivanovich to play?

4. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?

5. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator's attitude toward the absurd process that Ivanovich is told he must follow to sell back the tickets?

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