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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 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Apocryphal.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

2. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Epidemiology of Disease.
(b) Evolutionary biology.
(c) Neurology.
(d) Architecture.

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

4. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person.
(c) First person.
(d) Fourth person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?

2. 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”?

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

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?

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

(see the answer key)

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