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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1941.
2. How long is the retreat to last, according to Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 days.
3. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Brigitte Frank.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Dr. Anders Stern.
4. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1981.
5. Dr. Stern describes the retreatants at the concentration camp as having come from how many countries in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 means to give a false or misleading appearance to, or to conceal the truth?
2. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?
3. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?
4. To whom does Ben Lama offer the microphone after opening the meeting following dinner at the museum auditorium in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
5. The narrator says in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 that “Olin’s brief marriage ended in divorce on grounds of what his wife’s attorney cited as” what?
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