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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week is it when the traveler arrives in the city and tours it with the young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Monday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Thursday.

2. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?
(a) Gay marriage.
(b) The use of birth control.
(c) The ordination of female priests.
(d) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 refers to people of noble or high rank?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Patricians.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

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) Dread.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Fatigue.

5. What personal torment does “Big Erna” describe when she stands before the attendees in the dining area in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Her children’s illnesses and deaths.
(b) The bombing of her home.
(c) Unjust imprisonment.
(d) Sexual abuse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?

3. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

4. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

5. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking sense or silly?

(see the answer key)

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