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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?
(a) Brigitte Frank.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Dr. Anders Stern.
(d) Hanz Frank.

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

3. 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) Elixir.
(c) Kibbutz.
(d) Treblinka.

4. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) The United States.
(b) Palestine.
(c) Romania.
(d) Canada.

5. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?
(a) “The professor.”
(b) “The buffoon.”
(c) “The priest.”
(d) “The student.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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?

4. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

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

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