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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Moscow, Russia.
(c) Cracow, Poland.
(d) Turin, Italy.

2. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) A gold ring.
(b) A piece of amber.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A pearl bracelet.

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?
(a) Dan.
(b) Rainer.
(c) James Glock.
(d) Stefan.

4. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Polish.
(c) The French.
(d) The Jews.

5. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) “Our digestive tracts.”
(b) “Our grief.”
(c) “Our genetic code.”
(d) “Our compassion.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

2. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?

4. Where does the narrator say that Dr. D. Clements Olin was born in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

5. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?

(see the answer key)

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