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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What river does the narrator describe the road following “westward across the frozen landscape” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Oka River.
(b) The Elbe River.
(c) The Danube River.
(d) The Vistula River.

2. Where does the narrator say that Dr. D. Clements Olin was born in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Poland.
(b) Canada.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

3. What is the name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Kasimierz.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Szlachta.

4. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?
(a) Israel.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the “glum American rabbi” that instructs the other retreat attendees about the ram’s horn in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

3. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

4. What is the last name of the retreat attendee that is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “a makeshift Tibetan Buddhist from New Jersey”?

5. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mirek and Wanda respond when they arrive at Olin’s destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

2. What are Dr. Olin’s personal reasons for attending the retreat, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

3. Who greets Olin once he arrives at his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

4. Where has “the traveler” arrived in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1? What does he learn upon his arrival?

5. How has the group dynamic evolved when the narrative returns to the present tense in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

6. How is the setting of Kasmierz described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

7. How does the narrator describe Dr. Olin’s professional objectives at the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

8. What does Olin point out about the history of Oswiecim in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

9. What is on the agenda for the first morning of the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

10. How is the conflict involving Mr. Earwig resolved in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

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