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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 is Schramm's job title?
(a) Special stimulator.
(b) Official sight illuminator.
(c) Narrative guide.
(d) Rural enjoyment monitor.

2. How does the text's language change when the group gets off the train at the last stop on the first day?
(a) The language becomes more lyrical.
(b) The language becomes more circuitous.
(c) The language becomes more grandiloquent.
(d) The language becomes more conversational.

3. On page 19, to what does the narrator compare Ivanovich's return journey, away from the lake?
(a) A "sinister game."
(b) A "soul-shattering nightmare."
(c) A "hideous fairy tale."
(d) A "cruel, demeaning prank."

4. What relationship does Vasili Ivanovich have to the story's narrator?
(a) He is the narrator's former employee.
(b) He is the man who was once in love with the narrator's wife.
(c) He is a man whom the narrator met on a group tour.
(d) He is the narrator's brother-in-law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Ivanovich been in love with a married woman?

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

3. Who greets Ivanovich at the inn near the lake?

4. Who hosted the charity ball where Ivanovich won the tour?

5. What does Ivanovich think "must be oriented toward something or someone" (4)?

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