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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wanda read on the sign as the young couple enters the gates at the compound to drop off the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Heil Hitler.
(b) Arbeit macht frei.
(c) Le travail rend libre!
(d) Jedem das Seine.

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Apocryphal.

3. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(b) The Mauthausen-Gusen camp.
(c) The Auschwitz concentration camp.
(d) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

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

5. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Monday.
(d) Next month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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

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

4. What river does the narrator describe the road following “westward across the frozen landscape” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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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