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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 word is used by the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 to describe an overseer or “a privileged facilitator of the dirty work” at the concentration camps?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Chiaroscuro.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Kaddish.

2. 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?
(a) There are no taxis.
(b) The cars are too slow.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) There is a fuel shortage.

3. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “The Mental Block.”
(b) “The Death Block.”
(c) “The Sleeping Block.”
(d) “The Medical Block.”

4. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Anglophile.
(d) Ecumenical.

5. 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?
(a) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(b) “Why he has come here in the first place.”
(c) “Who he really is.”
(d) “His guilt in the entire affair.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it that the traveler arrives in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?

3. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?

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?

5. What does the traveler order for Wanda to drink when they return to the café for his luggage in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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