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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) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Ivan Turgenev

2. What does the narrator say is "dangerous for the soul" (7)?
(a) "The anonymity of all the parts of a landscape."
(b) The "configuration of some entirely insignificant objects."
(c) The "charm the world acquires when it is wound up and moving like a merry-go-round."
(d) "A memory of love, disguised as a meadow."

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

4. What does Ivanovich associate with happiness?
(a) Work.
(b) His childhood.
(c) His friends.
(d) Music.

5. What does Ivanovich feel is happening as the first night of the tour wears on?
(a) The others are becoming more tolerant of his eccentricities.
(b) The group leader is losing power to Schramm.
(c) The other group members are starting to dislike Schramm.
(d) The others are melding together into one collective being.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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