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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His stepmother.

2. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Szlachta.
(d) Oswiecim.

3. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) A gold ring.
(b) A pearl bracelet.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A piece of amber.

4. 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?
(a) "Jedem das Seine."
(b) “Cloaca maxima.”
(c) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(d) “Szlachta.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. Which of the retreat attendees is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “unaffiliated” in terms of religion and as having “no indicated nationality”?

4. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?

5. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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