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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) 1826.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1799.
2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 refers to the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Dread.
(d) Pedantic.
3. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.
4. What is the name of the prayer that is translated by the rabbi as “Making Peace by Making Whole” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Almanach de Gotha.
(c) Oseh Shalom.
(d) Szlachta.
5. What word from the novel refers to an Israeli community settlement, usually agricultural, that is organized under collectivist principles?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Kaddish.
Short Answer Questions
1. What poet does Olin quote in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 when he describes “something not known to anyone at all but wild in our breast for centuries”?
2. What is the name of the ship that G. Earwig has spent his life in search of, according to the narrator in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?
3. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
4. 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”?
5. 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?
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