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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tadeusz Borowski commit suicide?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He hanged himself.
(c) He breathed gas from an oven.
(d) He ran in front of a moving train.

2. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1993.

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Sardonic.

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 Basilica.
(b) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(c) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(d) Wawel Cathedral.

5. 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) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(b) The use of birth control.
(c) The ordination of female priests.
(d) Gay marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?

4. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 means extreme suffering and/or torment?

5. When was Tadeusz Borowski transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof?

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