View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many digits make up Malan’s prison number from Auschwitz?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. Father Mikal implies in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 that the mother-superior warned him that who had brought malicious gossip from their diocese to the retreat?
(a) Sister Sarah.
(b) Sister Christina.
(c) Sister Catherine.
(d) Sister Ann-Marie.

3. What museum does Olin visit in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) The National Gallery in Prague.
(b) The Czartoryski Museum.
(c) The Musée du Louvre.
(d) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

4. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?
(a) Late evening.
(b) Early evening.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Midday.

5. What was Josef Mengele’s nickname?
(a) The Mad Doctor.
(b) The President of Evil.
(c) The Murder Machine.
(d) The Angel of Death.

6. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9 means of doubtful authorship or authenticity?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Recalcitrant.
(d) Sardonic.

7. In the conclusion of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16, the narrator describes Olin, saying, “In the wavering of candles he sits motionless, broken-brained and” what?
(a) “Wholly brokenhearted.”
(b) “Completely alone.”
(c) “Waiting.”
(d) “Finally open to the world.”

8. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 refers to a long, tapering flag?
(a) Kibbutz.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Pennant.

9. According to the former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who became a camp guard, Olin’s mother was recognized on the selection platform at Auschwitz in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1941.

10. What does Malan say in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 “can speak when words cannot”?
(a) “Love.”
(b) “Music.”
(c) “The soul.”
(d) “The hand.”

11. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) The United States.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Canada.
(d) Romania.

12. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?
(a) Anglophile.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Pedantic.

13. What Zen poet is described by Ben Lama in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written of a “glad willingness to exchange the most magnificent metaphor about the sea for the immediacy, the pure reality, or one splash of cold surf full in the face”?
(a) Ryokan.
(b) Master Dogen.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Rilke.

14. What name does Olin call out when chasing after Sister Catherine in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) Emily.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Amalia.
(d) Elizabeth.

15. What is the name of Eva’s friend who is described as a self-taught painter and who survived at Auschwitz for four years?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Rainer.
(c) Malan.
(d) Lublin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?

2. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?

3. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15 refers to a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles and now often used as a warning signal?

4. What “confession” does Olin make before the other retreat attendees at the meditation meeting in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

5. What poet does Olin quote in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 when he describes “something not known to anyone at all but wild in our breast for centuries”?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 545 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample