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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last name of the retreat attendee that is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “a makeshift Tibetan Buddhist from New Jersey”?
(a) O’Brien.
(b) Ross.
(c) Smith.
(d) O’Malley.

2. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?
(a) Brigitte Frank.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Dr. Anders Stern.
(d) Hanz Frank.

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Apocryphal.

4. 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?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His stepmother.

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

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 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. 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?

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?

(see the answer key)

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