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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 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?
(a) The prayer room.
(b) The selections platform.
(c) The admissions building.
(d) The gas chamber.

2. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1189.
(b) 1369.
(c) 1241.
(d) 1415.

3. The excommunicated monk Stefan’s priory is in the region of what notorious death camp north of Warsaw, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
(a) Szlachta.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Kasimierz.
(d) Treblinka.

4. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) New York.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Massachusetts.

5. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?
(a) 1.1 million.
(b) 3.2 million.
(c) 4.3 million.
(d) 2.3 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

2. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?

3. What does Mr. Earwig say his first name is in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. What object does Dr. Olin recall “collapsing upon itself in an October field in the New England dusk” “as the loneliest thing he’d ever seen,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

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