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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Eva’s friend who is described as a self-taught painter and who survived at Auschwitz for four years?
(a) Malan.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Lublin.
(d) Rainer.

2. What does Mr. Earwig say his first name is in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Georgie.
(b) Grayson.
(c) Gregory.
(d) Gene.

3. Who leads the Christian prayer service that Olin attends with Professor Adina Schreier in the beginning of Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
(a) Sister Ann-Marie.
(b) Sister Angela.
(c) Sister Maria.
(d) Sister Catherine.

4. 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?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Dread.

5. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?

2. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. Who does the traveler say “styled herself ‘a Queen of Poland’” and displayed the Cecilia Gallerani portrait in the Royal Palace, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

5. The retreat’s unofficial “spiritual leader” is nicknamed what, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

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