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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1826.

2. 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) Hanz Frank.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Dr. Anders Stern.

3. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The Polish.
(b) The French.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Jews.

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

5. In what year does the narrator say that Olin’s grandparents “had prevailed upon their son Alexei, a young lieutenant of the cavalry, to escort them in their flight abroad to England and America” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. The retreat’s unofficial “spiritual leader” is nicknamed what, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

4. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

5. 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”?

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