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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does Olin quote in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 when he describes “something not known to anyone at all but wild in our breast for centuries”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Anna Akhmatova.
(c) Primo Levi.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

2. What are the lyrics of the children’s lullaby that Sister Catherine translates into English for Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) “London Bridge is falling down.”
(b) “Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies.”
(c) “Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffett.”
(d) “Early in the morning, God willing, you shall awaken.”

3. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?
(a) Viktor Frankl.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Rudolf Höss.
(d) Franz Xaver Schwarz.

4. 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?
(a) “Alienation of the affections.”
(b) “Earth apprehension.”
(c) “Collective consciousness.”
(d) “Supreme understanding.”

5. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) The United States.
(b) Romania.
(c) Palestine.
(d) Canada.

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. What Zen poet is described by Ben Lama in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written of a “glad willingness to exchange the most magnificent metaphor about the sea for the immediacy, the pure reality, or one splash of cold surf full in the face”?

3. What is the Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?

5. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 means extremely or impassively steep?

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