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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
(b) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Metamorphosis.

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

3. 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?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) King Kasimierz.

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

5. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) New York.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Delaware.
(d) Connecticut.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many Jews does the traveler tell his companions were murdered after World War II in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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

4. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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?

(see the answer key)

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