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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The couple that take the traveler to see the sights of the city in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1 take him past the Royal Palace and what cathedral?
(a) Wawel Cathedral.
(b) Cathedral Basilica.
(c) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(d) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.

2. 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 Islamic Norwegian.”
(c) “A Nordic Jew.”
(d) “An American Jew.”

3. 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) King Kasimierz.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Rudolf Höss.

4. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) June, 1940.
(b) December, 1941.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) August, 1938.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wanda read on the sign as the young couple enters the gates at the compound to drop off the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

2. 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?

3. The traveler is said to have once been a resident of what location in the U.S. in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. 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?

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?

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