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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe the ram’s horn blown as a wind instrument in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Visage.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

2. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(b) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
(c) The Auschwitz concentration camp.
(d) The Mauthausen-Gusen camp.

3. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) “Our digestive tracts.”
(b) “Our compassion.”
(c) “Our genetic code.”
(d) “Our grief.”

4. How many “pilgrims” does Dr. Stern say have come to attend the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 230.
(b) 56.
(c) 103.
(d) 140.

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Apocryphal.

6. 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?
(a) The admissions building.
(b) The selections platform.
(c) The gas chamber.
(d) The prayer room.

7. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?
(a) France.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Israel.

8. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) February.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) August.

9. What word is used by the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 to describe an overseer or “a privileged facilitator of the dirty work” at the concentration camps?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

10. 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?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

11. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Oswiecim.
(c) Lublin.
(d) Szlachta.

12. How many Jews does the traveler tell his companions were murdered after World War II in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Nearly 2,000.
(b) Nearly 5,000.
(c) Nearly 3,000.
(d) Nearly 1,000.

13. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?
(a) David.
(b) Michael.
(c) Anders.
(d) Howard.

14. 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) Primo Levi.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Viktor Frankl.
(d) Franz Xaver Schwarz.

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

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. 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?

3. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

5. 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?

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