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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) “An American Jew.”
(b) “An Arabic Jew.”
(c) “A Nordic Jew.”
(d) “An Islamic Norwegian.”

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Apocryphal.

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Apocryphal.
(d) Fatigue.

4. Where is Ben Lama’s retreat assistant from, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

5. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Epidemiology of Disease.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Evolutionary biology.
(d) Architecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?

3. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of Wanda’s boyfriend who helps to show the visitor around in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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