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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Visage.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Silhouette.

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

3. 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?
(a) Maria Levi.
(b) Brigitte Frank.
(c) Mary Höss.
(d) Emilie Schwarz.

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

5. 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) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(b) Cathedral Basilica.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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