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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His stepmother.

2. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?
(a) Turin, Italy.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Moscow, Russia.
(d) Cracow, Poland.

3. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Primo Levi.
(d) Viktor Frankl.

4. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Apocryphal.

5. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) The Metamorphosis.
(c) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
(d) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

2. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?

3. Who is described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 as the lone Ostjude survivor among those at the retreat?

4. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?

5. 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?

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