1. Where is Ben Lama’s retreat assistant from, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

2. What does Wanda read on the sign as the young couple enters the gates at the compound to drop off the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Le travail rend libre!
(b) Arbeit macht frei.
(c) Heil Hitler.
(d) Jedem das Seine.

3. 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) “Cyanide gases.”
(b) “Experimental medicine.”
(c) “Chiaroscuro.”
(d) “Genetic science.”

4. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Visage.

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of the retreat attendee that is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “a makeshift Tibetan Buddhist from New Jersey”?

2. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?

5. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?

(see the answer key)

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