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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wanda read on the sign as the young couple enters the gates at the compound to drop off the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Arbeit macht frei.
(b) Heil Hitler.
(c) Le travail rend libre!
(d) Jedem das Seine.

2. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?
(a) Visage.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Ambition.

3. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1922.

4. 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?
(a) King Kasimierz.
(b) Hanz Frank.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Rudolf Höss.

5. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 refers to the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others?

4. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?

5. How long is the retreat to last, according to Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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