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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The gas chamber.
(b) The selections platform.
(c) The prayer room.
(d) The admissions building.

2. The couple that take the traveler to see the sights of the city in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1 take him past the Royal Palace and what cathedral?
(a) Wawel Cathedral.
(b) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(d) Cathedral Basilica.

3. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?
(a) Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
(b) Pablo Picasso.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Michelangelo.

4. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Charlemagne’s.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci’s.
(c) Count Ludovico Sforza’s.
(d) King Henry VIII’s.

5. 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?
(a) “Who he really is.”
(b) “Why he has come here in the first place.”
(c) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(d) “What happened here fifty years ago.”

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. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?

4. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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