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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 Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Evolutionary biology.
(d) Epidemiology of Disease.

2. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Sardonic.
(d) Pernicious.

3. In what room does the traveler eat leftover food after his arrival at the concentration camp in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The selection platform.
(b) The coronation room.
(c) The SS mess hall.
(d) The gas chamber.

4. In what year does the narrator say that Olin’s grandparents “had prevailed upon their son Alexei, a young lieutenant of the cavalry, to escort them in their flight abroad to England and America” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1941.

5. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Bolivia.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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?

3. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?

4. 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?

5. Who wrote Survival in Auschwitz, or If This is a Man?

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