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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hereditary class does the narrator say Old Baron Olinski had brought his antique red leather boots to the New World to denote, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The wiec class.
(b) The slave class.
(c) The rycerz class.
(d) The schlachta class.

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

3. In what year did Rudolf Höss join the Nazi Party?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1933.

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

5. 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?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?

2. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

3. 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?

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?

5. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

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