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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 term in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to a liturgical prayer consisting of three or six verses?
(a) Visage.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

2. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7 means resisting authority or control, or disobedient?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Recalcitrant.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Ecumenical.

3. In the conclusion of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16, the narrator describes Olin, saying, “In the wavering of candles he sits motionless, broken-brained and” what?
(a) “Waiting.”
(b) “Finally open to the world.”
(c) “Wholly brokenhearted.”
(d) “Completely alone.”

4. Where was Pope John Paul II born?
(a) Moscow, Russia.
(b) Cracow, Poland.
(c) Wadowice, Poland.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

5. What does Olin leave behind in the bricks of the cellar at Birkenau as an offering to his mother in Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15?
(a) A pearl bracelet.
(b) A poem.
(c) A piece of amber.
(d) A gold ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

2. When was Tadeusz Borowski born?

3. Who is the “glum American rabbi” that instructs the other retreat attendees about the ram’s horn in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

4. What was Sister Catherine’s name prior to her entrance to novice hood, according to Stefan in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

5. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?

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