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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 word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?
(a) Chaplain.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Ecumenical.

2. What word from the novel refers to the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers?
(a) Kaddish.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Cantor.
(d) Shofar.

3. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1918.

4. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?
(a) St. Catherine of Siena.
(b) St. Catherine of Padua.
(c) St. Catherine of Milan.
(d) St. Catherine of Warsaw.

5. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 means to give a false or misleading appearance to, or to conceal the truth?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Dissemble.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Olin describe in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having “celebrated that vital joy in his atavistic impulse to devour the raw heart of a deer that is slain bare-handed”?

2. What is the name of the priest that accompanies the two Catholic novices at the retreat?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?

4. Who is described as “Becca’s companion, a violinist with long black hair” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

5. Who is Erna speaking of when she says to Olin in Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15, “It’s all taken care of, Baron. He’s finished”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Sister Catherine relate to Olin when she greets him in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?

2. What is significant about the tattoo that Malan shows Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

3. How does the dancing come about in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11? Who dances alongside Olin?

4. How is the character of Stanislav K. described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?

5. What information does Erna reveal to Olin prior to the meditation meeting in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

6. Where does Olin go after Catherine bids him farewell in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

7. How does the narrator describe the Olinskis’ efforts to locate Clements’s mother in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

8. What does Father Mikal discuss with Olin in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

9. What does Olin learn about Father Mikal in Cracow in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

10. What story does Rainer reveal of his family in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

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