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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?
(a) St. Catherine of Siena.
(b) St. Catherine of Padua.
(c) St. Catherine of Milan.
(d) St. Catherine of Warsaw.

2. Dr. Stern describes the retreatants at the concentration camp as having come from how many countries in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

3. Where was Clements Olin’s mother’s family from?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Silesia.

4. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?
(a) Leonardo da Vinci.
(b) Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

5. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1495.
(b) 1241.
(c) 1683.
(d) 1726.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. 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?

3. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

4. 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?

5. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?

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