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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?
(a) Second person.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Fourth person.

2. 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) Ecumenical.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Apocryphal.

3. In what room does the traveler eat leftover food after his arrival at the concentration camp in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The SS mess hall.
(b) The selection platform.
(c) The coronation room.
(d) The gas chamber.

4. What is the name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Szlachta.
(c) Kasimierz.
(d) Treblinka.

5. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Carpathian Mountains.
(b) The Alps.
(c) The Pyrenees Mountains.
(d) The Tatra Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?

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?

3. 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?

4. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?

5. Who does the traveler say “styled herself ‘a Queen of Poland’” and displayed the Cecilia Gallerani portrait in the Royal Palace, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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