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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 city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Cracow.

2. How many “pilgrims” does Dr. Stern say have come to attend the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 103.
(b) 140.
(c) 230.
(d) 56.

3. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?
(a) “The buffoon.”
(b) “The professor.”
(c) “The student.”
(d) “The priest.”

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

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the priest that accompanies the two Catholic novices at the retreat?

4. 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”?

5. What is the last name of the retreat attendee that is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “a makeshift Tibetan Buddhist from New Jersey”?

(see the answer key)

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