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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Szlachta.
(d) Olsztyn.

4. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Rudolf Höss.
(b) King Kasimierz.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Hanz Frank.

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?
(a) Visage.
(b) Silhouette.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Fatigue.

6. The retreat’s unofficial “spiritual leader” is nicknamed what, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Malan.
(b) Ben Lama.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Hanz Frank.

7. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His stepmother.

8. The narrator says of the traveler and young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “Not that he’d deserved much courtesy. They had been kind to lug him thirty miles on a winter road to this” what?
(a) "Jedem das Seine."
(b) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(c) “Szlachta.”
(d) “Cloaca maxima.”

9. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?
(a) “An Arabic Jew.”
(b) “An American Jew.”
(c) “An Islamic Norwegian.”
(d) “A Nordic Jew.”

10. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) France.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Israel.

11. 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) Wawel Cathedral.
(b) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(c) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(d) St. Mary’s Basilica.

12. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “The Mental Block.”
(b) “The Death Block.”
(c) “The Medical Block.”
(d) “The Sleeping Block.”

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

14. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?
(a) “The buffoon.”
(b) “The student.”
(c) “The priest.”
(d) “The professor.”

15. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Jews.
(c) The Polish.
(d) The French.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. What day of the week is it when the traveler arrives in the city and tours it with the young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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