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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

2. 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?
(a) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(b) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(c) “Why he has come here in the first place.”
(d) “Who he really is.”

3. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Charlemagne’s.
(b) King Henry VIII’s.
(c) Count Ludovico Sforza’s.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci’s.

4. What day of the week is it when the traveler arrives in the city and tours it with the young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Monday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Tuesday.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

2. How long is the retreat to last, according to Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

3. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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. The traveler is said to have once been a resident of what location in the U.S. in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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