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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 does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

2. 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) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Rudolf Höss.
(d) Primo Levi.

3. 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?
(a) “Alienation of the affections.”
(b) “Earth apprehension.”
(c) “Collective consciousness.”
(d) “Supreme understanding.”

4. 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) Pedantic.
(b) Dread.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Fatigue.

5. 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 Jews.
(b) The French.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Polish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Clements Olin’s mother’s family from?

2. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?

3. 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?

4. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?

5. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?

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