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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 III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 means to give a false or misleading appearance to, or to conceal the truth?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Dissemble.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Fatigue.

2. Who is the young man that Olin encounters outside of a cottage by the concentration camp and holding a blueprint in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Rabbi Dan.
(c) Dr. Stern.
(d) Mirek.

3. The narrator says in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 that “Olin’s brief marriage ended in divorce on grounds of what his wife’s attorney cited as” what?
(a) “Addiction to adultery.”
(b) “Alienation of the affections.”
(c) “Alcoholism and abuse.”
(d) “Homosexual tendencies.”

4. Who informs Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14 that she has tracked down a former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who later worked as a camp guard?
(a) Anna Akhmatova.
(b) Erna.
(c) Sister Catherine.
(d) Brigitte Frank.

5. Who does Olin describe in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having “celebrated that vital joy in his atavistic impulse to devour the raw heart of a deer that is slain bare-handed”?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

6. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1981.

7. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Pedantic.

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

9. When did Tadeusz Borowski die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1977.

10. What is the name of the one survivor on the fleet of ships that G. Earwig’s family fled on, according to the information he’s discovered in Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15?
(a) Viktor Frankl.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) David Stonior.

11. Who is said to be “grievously disappointed in his death camp experience and ‘heavy of heart’ as well, perceiving all Poland as ‘one big cemetery’” in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) Rabbi Dan.
(b) Jaroslav.
(c) Viktor Frankl.
(d) Rabbi Glock.

12. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?
(a) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(b) The ordination of female priests.
(c) Gay marriage.
(d) The use of birth control.

13. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?
(a) Sarah Glock.
(b) Edith Frankl.
(c) Maria Appelfeld.
(d) Emilie Adam.

14. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?
(a) Sister Catherine.
(b) Sister Angela.
(c) Sister Maria.
(d) Sister Ann-Marie.

15. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?
(a) Recalcitrant.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Apocryphal.
(d) Disingenuous.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Tadeusz Borowski transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof?

2. What word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?

3. What museum does Olin visit in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

4. What is the name of the Polish sculptor at the retreat who argues with the Jewish attendees in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

5. What Zen master is cited in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written, “All the Universe is one bright pearl. What need is there to understand it?”

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