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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Rainer.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Erna.
(d) Malan.

2. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?
(a) Sister Maria.
(b) Sister Catherine.
(c) Sister Ann-Marie.
(d) Sister Angela.

3. 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) G. Earwig.
(b) Malan.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Rainer.

4. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Visage.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Fatigue.

5. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Anglophile.
(d) Ecumenical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?

2. 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?

3. Who is described as “Becca’s companion, a violinist with long black hair” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

4. Where is Ben Lama’s retreat assistant from, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?

(see the answer key)

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