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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 means extreme suffering and/or torment?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Martyrdom.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Kaddish.

2. What is the Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(b) Wawel Cathedral.
(c) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(d) St. Mary’s Basilica.

3. Who was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1940 to November 1943?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Rudolf Höss.
(d) Franz Xaver Schwarz.

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

5. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Neurology.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Epidemiology of Disease.
(d) Evolutionary biology.

Short Answer Questions

1. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What object does Dr. Olin recall “collapsing upon itself in an October field in the New England dusk” “as the loneliest thing he’d ever seen,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

3. Who is the “glum American rabbi” that instructs the other retreat attendees about the ram’s horn in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

4. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?

5. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

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