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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The traveler learns upon arriving in the city that the buses that go to his destination won’t be available before when, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Summer.
(b) Monday.
(c) Spring.
(d) Next month.

2. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object?
(a) Disingenuous.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Silhouette.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

3. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1818.

4. The couple that take the traveler to see the sights of the city in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1 take him past the Royal Palace and what cathedral?
(a) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(b) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Cathedral Basilica.
(d) Wawel Cathedral.

5. In what year did Rudolf Höss join the Nazi Party?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the narrator say that Olin’s grandparents “had prevailed upon their son Alexei, a young lieutenant of the cavalry, to escort them in their flight abroad to England and America” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

2. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?

3. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?

4. Who tells the story about the Jewish family hiding in a secret hiding place in a Warsaw house and was then discovered by the Gestapo because of the little girl who wouldn’t stop crying in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

5. What is the name of the younger Catholic novice on the retreat?

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