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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 word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 means to give a false or misleading appearance to, or to conceal the truth?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Dissemble.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

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) “Who he really is.”
(c) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(d) “What happened here fifty years ago.”

3. 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) Gay marriage.
(b) The ordination of female priests.
(c) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(d) The use of birth control.

4. What German word for “housewife” does Earwig use in a derogatory manner in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
(a) Hausfrau.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Shofar.

5. Where was Josef Mengele located at the time of his death?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Inside the concentration camp, the narrator describes Block 10 as the location where “the assorted sadisms” of what were administered, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. What word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?

3. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?

4. How old was Olin when he was sent away to boarding school, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

5. The traveler is said to have once been a resident of what location in the U.S. in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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