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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Polish province was “a hub for seasonal harvest labor transported across northern Europe” prior to World War II, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Olsztyn.
(c) Szlachta.
(d) Oswiecim.

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?
(a) Visage.
(b) Dread.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Corruption.

3. Who does the traveler say “styled herself ‘a Queen of Poland’” and displayed the Cecilia Gallerani portrait in the Royal Palace, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Emilie Schwarz.
(b) Maria Levi.
(c) Mary Höss.
(d) Brigitte Frank.

4. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 means extreme suffering and/or torment?
(a) Martyrdom.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Shofar.

5. What is the last name of the retreat attendee that is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “a makeshift Tibetan Buddhist from New Jersey”?
(a) O’Brien.
(b) O’Malley.
(c) Ross.
(d) Smith.

6. What river does the narrator describe the road following “westward across the frozen landscape” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Oka River.
(b) The Vistula River.
(c) The Danube River.
(d) The Elbe River.

7. The retreat’s unofficial “spiritual leader” is nicknamed what, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Hanz Frank.
(c) Ben Lama.
(d) Malan.

8. When was Christian Europe saved “from the Mongol hordes,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1415.
(b) 1189.
(c) 1241.
(d) 1369.

9. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to an earnest desire for achievement or distinction?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Visage.

10. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Visage.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Sadism.

11. 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?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

12. Which of the retreat attendees is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “unaffiliated” in terms of religion and as having “no indicated nationality”?
(a) Rainer.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Malan.
(d) G. Earwig.

13. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Charlemagne’s.
(b) Count Ludovico Sforza’s.
(c) King Henry VIII’s.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci’s.

14. 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?
(a) “Our digestive tracts.”
(b) “Our genetic code.”
(c) “Our compassion.”
(d) “Our grief.”

15. 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) Shofar.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Visage.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 refers to the condition in which sexual gratification depends on causing pain or degradation to others?

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

3. What is the Brick Gothic church that was “destroyed in the thirteenth century by Asian Tatars” and rebuilt in the fourteenth century, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?

5. 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?

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