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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) Cracow, Poland.
(b) Turin, Italy.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Moscow, Russia.

2. 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?
(a) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(b) "Jedem das Seine."
(c) “Cloaca maxima.”
(d) “Szlachta.”

3. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Fourth person.

4. 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”?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Brigitte Frank.
(d) Dr. Anders Stern.

5. 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) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(d) Queens, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?

3. How many Jews does the traveler tell his companions were murdered after World War II in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

4. What term in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to a liturgical prayer consisting of three or six verses?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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