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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 word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 refers to a person who is friendly to or admires England or English customs, etc.?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Anglophile.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Pedantic.

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?
(a) “Our digestive tracts.”
(b) “Our genetic code.”
(c) “Our grief.”
(d) “Our compassion.”

3. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1932.

4. 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 SS mess hall.
(b) The coronation room.
(c) The gas chamber.
(d) The selection platform.

5. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Tatra Mountains.
(c) The Carpathian Mountains.
(d) The Pyrenees Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the priest that accompanies the two Catholic novices at the retreat?

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. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?

4. For what saint do the Catholic novices offer a candle in the Hunger Cell in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. The narrator says of the traveler and young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “Not that he’d deserved much courtesy. They had been kind to lug him thirty miles on a winter road to this” what?

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