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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 word is used to describe the ram’s horn blown as a wind instrument in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Visage.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Shofar.

2. Where was Clements Olin’s mother’s family from?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Silesia.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Lublin.

3. Why is the traveler advised against hiring a car to take him from the city to his destination in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) The cars are too slow.
(b) There is a fuel shortage.
(c) There are no taxis.
(d) It is too expensive.

4. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1970.

5. 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) Monday.
(b) Spring.
(c) Next month.
(d) Summer.

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 word from the novel refers to the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers?

3. Of those who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, Dr. Stern says what “is about all we have in common with those poor doomed bastards” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

4. At least how many prisoners died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust?

5. For how many years does Malan say he was held prisoner at Auschwitz in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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