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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Aharon Appelfeld.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) King Kasimierz.

2. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Visage.

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

4. 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 Elbe River.
(b) The Oka River.
(c) The Danube River.
(d) The Vistula River.

5. 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) December, 1941.
(b) September, 1939.
(c) June, 1940.
(d) August, 1938.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

3. For what saint do the Catholic novices offer a candle in the Hunger Cell in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

4. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

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?

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