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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 Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(b) St. Mary’s Basilica.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
2. 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) The use of birth control.
(c) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(d) Gay marriage.
3. When was Josef Mengele born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1892.
4. 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) “Supreme understanding.”
(b) “Alienation of the affections.”
(c) “Collective consciousness.”
(d) “Earth apprehension.”
5. How many Jews does the traveler tell his companions were murdered after World War II in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Nearly 1,000.
(b) Nearly 2,000.
(c) Nearly 5,000.
(d) Nearly 3,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who tells the story about the Jewish family hiding in a secret hiding place in a Warsaw house and was then discovered by the Gestapo because of the little girl who wouldn’t stop crying in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
2. How did Tadeusz Borowski commit suicide?
3. Dr. Stern describes the retreatants at the concentration camp as having come from how many countries in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
4. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
5. What was Sister Catherine’s name prior to her entrance to novice hood, according to Stefan in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?
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