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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 as the lone Ostjude survivor among those at the retreat?
(a) Rabbi Glock.
(b) G. Earwig.
(c) Moishe T.
(d) Viktor Frankl.

2. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 refers to a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing medicinal substances?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Elixir.
(c) Kibbutz.
(d) Treblinka.

3. What word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?
(a) Chaplain.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

4. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?
(a) Early morning.
(b) Early evening.
(c) Midday.
(d) Late evening.

5. Where was Josef Mengele located at the time of his death?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?

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

4. What was Josef Mengele’s nickname?

5. 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”?

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