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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 name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Kasimierz.
(b) Szlachta.
(c) Lublin.
(d) Treblinka.

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

3. What river does the narrator describe the road following “westward across the frozen landscape” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Danube River.
(b) The Elbe River.
(c) The Oka River.
(d) The Vistula River.

4. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Silhouette.
(d) Disingenuous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

2. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. 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?

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. 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?

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