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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Clements Olin’s mother’s family from?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Olsztyn.
(c) Silesia.
(d) Warsaw.

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

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

4. How many “pilgrims” does Dr. Stern say have come to attend the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 56.
(b) 103.
(c) 140.
(d) 230.

5. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?
(a) Primo Levi.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(d) Rudolf Höss.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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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