3. What word from the novel refers to the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers?
(a) Cantor.
(b) Shofar.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

4. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) September, 1939.
(b) December, 1941.
(c) August, 1938.
(d) June, 1940.

5. 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?
(a) Sister Ann-Marie.
(b) Eva.
(c) Sister Catherine.
(d) Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of the traveler and young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “Not that he’d deserved much courtesy. They had been kind to lug him thirty miles on a winter road to this” what?

2. What was Josef Mengele’s nickname?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?

4. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

5. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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