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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

2. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?
(a) Israel.
(b) France.
(c) Bolivia.
(d) Canada.

3. What is the Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) St. Mary’s Basilica.
(b) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(d) Wawel Cathedral.

4. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
(b) This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Metamorphosis.

5. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Silhouette.
(c) Disingenuous.
(d) Fatigue.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?

4. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?

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

(see the answer key)

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