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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 day of the week is it when the traveler arrives in the city and tours it with the young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Thursday.

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

3. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) Romania.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United States.
(d) Palestine.

4. 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. John the Baptist.
(b) Wawel Cathedral.
(c) St. Mary’s Basilica.
(d) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.

5. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the lyrics of the children’s lullaby that Sister Catherine translates into English for Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?

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. Where does Malan suggest Olin visit “the old Franciscan cathedral and have a look at its modern stained-glass window” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

4. What is the name of the prayer that is translated by the rabbi as “Making Peace by Making Whole” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

5. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?

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