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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?
(a) Silhouette.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

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

3. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) December, 1941.
(b) September, 1939.
(c) June, 1940.
(d) August, 1938.

4. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Oswiecim.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Szlachta.

5. What term in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to a liturgical prayer consisting of three or six verses?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Visage.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Kaddish.

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

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

8. 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?
(a) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(b) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(c) “Who he really is.”
(d) “Why he has come here in the first place.”

9. 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) There is a fuel shortage.
(b) The cars are too slow.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) There are no taxis.

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

11. The couple that take the traveler to see the sights of the city in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1 take him past the Royal Palace and what cathedral?
(a) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(b) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral Basilica.

12. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Monday.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Next month.

13. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) “Our digestive tracts.”
(b) “Our compassion.”
(c) “Our grief.”
(d) “Our genetic code.”

14. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Visage.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Ecumenical.

15. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1726.
(b) 1683.
(c) 1495.
(d) 1241.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?

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. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

5. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

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