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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Beer.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Hot cocoa.

2. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) December, 1941.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) September, 1939.
(d) June, 1940.

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 Mauthausen-Gusen camp.
(b) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
(c) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(d) The Auschwitz concentration camp.

4. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Israel.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

5. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
(c) The Metamorphosis.
(d) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?

2. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

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

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?

5. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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