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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) Treblinka.
(b) Kasimierz.
(c) Szlachta.
(d) Lublin.

2. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Spring.
(b) Monday.
(c) Next month.
(d) Summer.

3. 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) A train car.
(c) An old car.
(d) A pumpkin.

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

5. 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) “Cyanide gases.”
(b) “Chiaroscuro.”
(c) “Genetic science.”
(d) “Experimental medicine.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?

2. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?

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

4. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. 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?

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