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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The retreat’s unofficial “spiritual leader” is nicknamed what, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Ben Lama.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Malan.

2. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?
(a) Moscow, Russia.
(b) Turin, Italy.
(c) Cracow, Poland.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

3. During what century does the narrator say Poland “ruled all Europe from the Baltic east to the Black Sea” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The seventeenth century.
(b) The thirteenth century.
(c) The fifteenth century.
(d) The sixteenth century.

4. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Visage.

5. Where does the narrator say that Dr. D. Clements Olin was born in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?

2. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to the distribution of light and shade in a picture?

4. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?

5. 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”?

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