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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?
(a) Sister Catherine.
(b) Sister Maria.
(c) Sister Angela.
(d) Sister Ann-Marie.

2. As Olin attempts to make sense of the transcendent experience of the dancing in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11, the narrator says, “Out on that platform at odd moments of each day, a presence had risen that, for want of a better term, [Olin] calls” what in his journal?
(a) “Collective consciousness.”
(b) “Supreme understanding.”
(c) “Earth apprehension.”
(d) “Alienation of the affections.”

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

4. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?
(a) The ordination of female priests.
(b) Gay marriage.
(c) The use of birth control.
(d) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Dread.
(d) Visage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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

3. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

4. How many digits make up Malan’s prison number from Auschwitz?

5. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to the distribution of light and shade in a picture?

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