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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The traveler is said to have once been a resident of what location in the U.S. in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(d) Queens, New York.

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

3. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Mauthausen-Gusen camp.
(b) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(c) The Auschwitz concentration camp.
(d) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.

4. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His stepmother.

5. What object does Dr. Olin recall “collapsing upon itself in an October field in the New England dusk” “as the loneliest thing he’d ever seen,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) A house.
(b) An old car.
(c) A pumpkin.
(d) A train car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is used to describe the ram’s horn blown as a wind instrument in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?

3. 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?

4. 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”?

5. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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