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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1826.

3. How many Jews does the traveler tell his companions were murdered after World War II in Poland in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Nearly 1,000.
(b) Nearly 3,000.
(c) Nearly 5,000.
(d) Nearly 2,000.

4. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?
(a) “An American Jew.”
(b) “An Islamic Norwegian.”
(c) “An Arabic Jew.”
(d) “A Nordic Jew.”

5. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15 refers to a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles and now often used as a warning signal?
(a) Kaddish.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Klaxon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to the Pentateuch, the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament?

2. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?

4. What name does Olin call out when chasing after Sister Catherine in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

5. What hereditary class does the narrator say Old Baron Olinski had brought his antique red leather boots to the New World to denote, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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