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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The prayer room.
(b) The admissions building.
(c) The selections platform.
(d) The gas chamber.

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) Pedantic.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Apocryphal.

3. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Visage.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Pedantic.

4. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Carpathian Mountains.
(b) The Pyrenees Mountains.
(c) The Tatra Mountains.
(d) The Alps.

5. 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?
(a) Nearly 2,000.
(b) Nearly 1,000.
(c) Nearly 3,000.
(d) Nearly 5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

3. Why is the traveler advised against hiring a car to take him from the city to his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. Who was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1940 to November 1943?

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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