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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the traveler advised against hiring a car to take him from the city to his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) The cars are too slow.
(b) It is too expensive.
(c) There is a fuel shortage.
(d) There are no taxis.

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

3. What personal torment does “Big Erna” describe when she stands before the attendees in the dining area in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Unjust imprisonment.
(b) The bombing of her home.
(c) Her children’s illnesses and deaths.
(d) Sexual abuse.

4. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1369.
(b) 1415.
(c) 1189.
(d) 1241.

5. What word from the novel refers to the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers?
(a) Kaddish.
(b) Shofar.
(c) Cantor.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?

2. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

3. Where was Clements Olin’s mother’s family from?

4. What river does the narrator describe the road following “westward across the frozen landscape” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?

(see the answer key)

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