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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Count Ludovico Sforza’s.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci’s.
(c) King Henry VIII’s.
(d) Charlemagne’s.

2. 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?
(a) The gas chamber.
(b) The selection platform.
(c) The SS mess hall.
(d) The coronation room.

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

4. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Pyrenees Mountains.
(c) The Carpathian Mountains.
(d) The Tatra Mountains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What is the name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?

(see the answer key)

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