1. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1241.
(d) 1726.

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

3. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Auschwitz concentration camp.
(b) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(c) The Mauthausen-Gusen camp.
(d) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

4. Inside the concentration camp, the narrator describes Block 10 as the location where “the assorted sadisms” of what were administered, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “Cyanide gases.”
(b) “Chiaroscuro.”
(c) “Genetic science.”
(d) “Experimental medicine.”

5. What word is used by the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 to describe an overseer or “a privileged facilitator of the dirty work” at the concentration camps?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Kaddish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the Christian prayer service that Olin attends with Professor Adina Schreier in the beginning of Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

2. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?

(see the answer key)

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