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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Olsztyn.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Cracow.
(d) Warsaw.

2. Why is the traveler advised against hiring a car to take him from the city to his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) There are no taxis.
(b) There is a fuel shortage.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) The cars are too slow.

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Apocryphal.

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?
(a) His stepmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

5. 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) St. Mary’s Basilica.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?

(see the answer key)

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