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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Visage.
(d) Pedantic.

2. 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) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Wawel Cathedral.
(d) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.

3. 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?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Szlachta.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Oswiecim.

4. 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?
(a) June, 1940.
(b) August, 1938.
(c) December, 1941.
(d) September, 1939.

5. 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) Hanz Frank.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Dr. Anders Stern.
(d) Brigitte Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the traveler advised against hiring a car to take him from the city to his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

5. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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