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

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 is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?
(a) Howard.
(b) Michael.
(c) David.
(d) Anders.

3. 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) Smith.
(c) O’Malley.
(d) Ross.

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

5. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) February.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?

5. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

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