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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Visage.
(b) Dread.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Corruption.

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

3. Inside the concentration camp, the narrator describes Block 10 as the location where “the assorted sadisms” of what were administered, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “Experimental medicine.”
(b) “Genetic science.”
(c) “Cyanide gases.”
(d) “Chiaroscuro.”

4. 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?
(a) Le travail rend libre!
(b) Jedem das Seine.
(c) Heil Hitler.
(d) Arbeit macht frei.

5. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to the distribution of light and shade in a picture?
(a) Visage.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Silhouette.

Short Answer Questions

1. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. What does Mr. Earwig say his first name is in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

3. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

4. Who is the “glum American rabbi” that instructs the other retreat attendees about the ram’s horn in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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