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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Wanda’s boyfriend who helps to show the visitor around in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Mirek.
(b) Rainer.
(c) Mikal.
(d) Stefan.

2. 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) Thursday.
(d) Monday.

3. 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?
(a) “Cloaca maxima.”
(b) “Szlachta.”
(c) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(d) "Jedem das Seine."

4. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) February.

5. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) King Kasimierz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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

3. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress 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. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

(see the answer key)

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