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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
(b) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Metamorphosis.

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

4. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1992.

5. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?
(a) David Olinski.
(b) Michael Olinski.
(c) Alexei Olinski.
(d) Xavier Olinski.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Olin attempts to make sense of the transcendent experience of the dancing in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11, the narrator says, “Out on that platform at odd moments of each day, a presence had risen that, for want of a better term, [Olin] calls” what in his journal?

2. To whom does Ben Lama offer the microphone after opening the meeting following dinner at the museum auditorium in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

3. During what century does the narrator say Poland “ruled all Europe from the Baltic east to the Black Sea” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

4. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

5. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?

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