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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person.

2. 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) September, 1939.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) June, 1940.
(d) December, 1941.

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

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?
(a) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(b) St. Mary’s Basilica.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

5. 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?
(a) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(b) “Szlachta.”
(c) “Cloaca maxima.”
(d) "Jedem das Seine."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

4. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

5. Who does the traveler say “styled herself ‘a Queen of Poland’” and displayed the Cecilia Gallerani portrait in the Royal Palace, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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