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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Ecumenical.

2. Where does the narrator say that Dr. D. Clements Olin was born in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) France.
(b) Poland.
(c) Canada.
(d) Germany.

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Apocryphal.

4. How long is the retreat to last, according to Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 2 weeks.

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) 6.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?

3. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. In what room does the traveler eat leftover food after his arrival at the concentration camp in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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