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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used by Father Mikal in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 means easily influenced?
(a) Sardonic.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Disingenuous.
(d) Impressionable.

2. For what saint do the Catholic novices offer a candle in the Hunger Cell in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Saint Maximilian.
(b) Saint Mary.
(c) Saint Christina.
(d) Saint David.

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

4. When was Tadeusz Borowski married to his fiancée Maria?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1946.

5. Inside the concentration camp, the narrator describes Block 10 as the location where “the assorted sadisms” of what were administered, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “Chiaroscuro.”
(b) “Genetic science.”
(c) “Cyanide gases.”
(d) “Experimental medicine.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?

2. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?

3. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

4. Father Mikal implies in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 that the mother-superior warned him that who had brought malicious gossip from their diocese to the retreat?

5. Malan says to Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13, “The only way to understand such evil is to” what?

(see the answer key)

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