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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the rabbi that leads the Jewish prayer service by the ash pit in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Rabbi Stein.
(b) Rabbi Appelfeld.
(c) Rabbi Glock.
(d) Rabbi Dan.

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

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

4. How many female prisoners were held in each barrack of the women’s quarters, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?
(a) 300.
(b) 700.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.

5. 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) “Alienation of the affections.”
(b) “Alcoholism and abuse.”
(c) “Addiction to adultery.”
(d) “Homosexual tendencies.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7 means resisting authority or control, or disobedient?

2. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?

3. 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?

4. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of the human capacity for evil explored in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

2. What story does Rainer reveal of his family in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

3. What does Father Mikal discuss with Olin in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

4. What information does Olin learn from Stefan in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

5. What realities about his grandparents does Olin come to terms with in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

6. How are the tensions between the retreat attendees described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

7. How does the narrator describe the correlations between art and evil in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

8. What information does Earwig relate regarding his family in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?

9. What information does Sister Catherine relate to Olin when she greets him in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?

10. How does Olin come to meet Sister Catherine in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

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