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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Erna.
(b) Rainer.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Malan.

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

3. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?
(a) 4.3 million.
(b) 3.2 million.
(c) 2.3 million.
(d) 1.1 million.

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?
(a) “Genetic science.”
(b) “Cyanide gases.”
(c) “Chiaroscuro.”
(d) “Experimental medicine.”

5. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1241.
(b) 1189.
(c) 1369.
(d) 1415.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

2. Dr. Stern describes the retreatants at the concentration camp as having come from how many countries in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

3. 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?

4. Who is described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 as “a Czech whose mother had survived the first selection only to die within the next few hours”?

5. What word from the novel refers to an Israeli community settlement, usually agricultural, that is organized under collectivist principles?

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