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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the retreat attendees is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “unaffiliated” in terms of religion and as having “no indicated nationality”?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Malan.
(c) G. Earwig.
(d) Rainer.

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?
(a) The Wilma.
(b) The Shofar.
(c) The Kaddish.
(d) The Struma.

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

4. What word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Chaplain.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

5. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandfather?
(a) Dr. Glock.
(b) Dr. Allgeier.
(c) Dr. Appelfeld.
(d) Dr. Schwartz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?

2. The narrator says in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 that “Olin’s brief marriage ended in divorce on grounds of what his wife’s attorney cited as” what?

3. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

4. In what year did Rudolf Höss join the Nazi Party?

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?

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