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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) Fatigue.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Apocryphal.
(d) Disingenuous.

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

3. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1932.

4. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

5. 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”?
(a) G. Earwig.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Malan.
(d) Rainer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?

2. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

4. What is the name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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