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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9 means of doubtful authorship or authenticity?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Recalcitrant.
(d) Pernicious.

2. What poet does Olin quote in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 when he describes “something not known to anyone at all but wild in our breast for centuries”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Anna Akhmatova.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

3. What word used by Father Mikal in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 means easily influenced?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Impressionable.
(d) Disingenuous.

4. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 means marked by characteristics of an earlier period, or antiquated?
(a) Intrinsic.
(b) Archaic.
(c) Colloquial.
(d) Undetermined.

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski married to his fiancée Maria?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1942.

6. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?
(a) Sister Ann-Marie.
(b) Sister Catherine.
(c) Sister Maria.
(d) Sister Angela.

7. What is the name of the prayer that is translated by the rabbi as “Making Peace by Making Whole” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Oseh Shalom.
(c) Almanach de Gotha.
(d) Szlachta.

8. How many languages does G. Earwig speak, “all of them poorly,” according to the narrator in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

9. How many synagogues does Erna say used to serve Oswiecim in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

10. What Zen poet is described by Ben Lama in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written of a “glad willingness to exchange the most magnificent metaphor about the sea for the immediacy, the pure reality, or one splash of cold surf full in the face”?
(a) Master Dogen.
(b) Ryokan.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Rilke.

11. What name does Olin call out when chasing after Sister Catherine in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Amalia.
(c) Emily.
(d) Sarah.

12. What is the name of Eva’s friend who is described as a self-taught painter and who survived at Auschwitz for four years?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Rainer.
(d) Malan.

13. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 refers to a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing medicinal substances?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Elixir.

14. Where is Dr. Stern said to be from in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Greenland.

15. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Sardonic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Pernicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?

2. According to the former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who became a camp guard, Olin’s mother was recognized on the selection platform at Auschwitz in what year?

3. What does Malan say in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 “can speak when words cannot”?

4. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 refers to a long, tapering flag?

5. Malan says to Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13, “The only way to understand such evil is to” what?

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