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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What personal torment does “Big Erna” describe when she stands before the attendees in the dining area in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Unjust imprisonment.
(b) Sexual abuse.
(c) Her children’s illnesses and deaths.
(d) The bombing of her home.

3. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Rudolf Höss.
(d) Primo Levi.

4. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?
(a) St. Catherine of Siena.
(b) St. Catherine of Warsaw.
(c) St. Catherine of Milan.
(d) St. Catherine of Padua.

5. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The prayer room.
(b) The admissions building.
(c) The gas chamber.
(d) The selections platform.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?

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?

3. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?

4. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. During what century does the narrator say Poland “ruled all Europe from the Baltic east to the Black Sea” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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