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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?
(a) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(b) “Who he really is.”
(c) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(d) “Why he has come here in the first place.”

2. What day of the week is it when the traveler arrives in the city and tours it with the young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Thursday.

3. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2002.

4. 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) Corruption.
(c) Dread.
(d) Fatigue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

2. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?

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

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

5. Who does the traveler say “styled herself ‘a Queen of Poland’” and displayed the Cecilia Gallerani portrait in the Royal Palace, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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