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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 refers to people of noble or high rank?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Patricians.

2. 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 Polish.
(b) The French.
(c) The Jews.
(d) The Germans.

3. What hereditary class does the narrator say Old Baron Olinski had brought his antique red leather boots to the New World to denote, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The slave class.
(b) The wiec class.
(c) The rycerz class.
(d) The schlachta class.

4. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?
(a) Dread.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Visage.
(d) Fatigue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

2. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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?

4. In what year does the narrator say that Olin’s grandparents “had prevailed upon their son Alexei, a young lieutenant of the cavalry, to escort them in their flight abroad to England and America” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

5. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?

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