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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 is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?
(a) Sister Maria.
(b) Sister Catherine.
(c) Sister Angela.
(d) Sister Ann-Marie.

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

3. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His stepmother.

4. How many “pilgrims” does Dr. Stern say have come to attend the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 56.
(b) 230.
(c) 103.
(d) 140.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ben Lama offer the microphone after opening the meeting following dinner at the museum auditorium in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

2. Who was the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1940 to November 1943?

3. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?

4. During what century does the narrator say Poland “ruled all Europe from the Baltic east to the Black Sea” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

5. As Olin attempts to make sense of the transcendent experience of the dancing in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11, the narrator says, “Out on that platform at odd moments of each day, a presence had risen that, for want of a better term, [Olin] calls” what in his journal?

(see the answer key)

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