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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) Aharon Appelfeld.
(b) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(c) Anna Akhmatova.
(d) Primo Levi.

2. Malan says to Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13, “The only way to understand such evil is to” what?
(a) “Reimagine it.”
(b) “Embrace it.”
(c) “Accept it.”
(d) “Enter into it.”

3. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 means extremely or impassively steep?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Precipitous.

4. When was Tadeusz Borowski married to his fiancée Maria?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1959.

5. 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) “A Nordic Jew.”
(b) “An Islamic Norwegian.”
(c) “An American Jew.”
(d) “An Arabic Jew.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say that Dr. D. Clements Olin was born in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

2. What word is used by the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 to describe an overseer or “a privileged facilitator of the dirty work” at the concentration camps?

3. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 means marked by characteristics of an earlier period, or antiquated?

4. Who takes Olin’s hand after Sister Ann-Marie wriggles free from the dancing circle in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

5. When does the traveler describe southwest Poland having been seized by the Third Reich and Jews driven to the ghetto in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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