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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Stern tells Dr. Olin in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 that the majority of the attendees at the retreat are Jews and Christians from what country?
(a) France.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Israel.
(d) Switzerland.

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

3. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?
(a) Hanz Frank.
(b) Brigitte Frank.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Dr. Anders Stern.

4. 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.

5. Who wrote Survival in Auschwitz, or If This is a Man?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Primo Levi.
(d) Rudolf Höss.

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 Elbe River.
(d) The Danube River.

7. What is the name of Ben Lama’s retreat assistant, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Stefan.
(b) Erna.
(c) Malan.
(d) Rainer.

8. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The prayer room.
(b) The admissions building.
(c) The gas chamber.
(d) The selections platform.

9. What Viennese Holocaust survivor is quoted in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 as having said, “We who have come back, we know. The best of us did not return”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Viktor Frankl.
(d) Rudolf Höss.

10. What is the name of Wanda’s boyfriend who helps to show the visitor around in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Mikal.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Mirek.
(d) Rainer.

11. 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?
(a) Rabbi Dan.
(b) Hanz Frank.
(c) Viktor Frankl.
(d) Father Mikal.

12. Who was the Governor General of Occupied Poland that confiscated the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, according to the traveler in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Rudolf Höss.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) King Kasimierz.
(d) Hanz Frank.

13. What object does Dr. Olin recall “collapsing upon itself in an October field in the New England dusk” “as the loneliest thing he’d ever seen,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) An old car.
(b) A train car.
(c) A house.
(d) A pumpkin.

14. 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) Corruption.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Dread.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Rudolf Höss join the Nazi Party?

2. What term in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to a liturgical prayer consisting of three or six verses?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 means extreme suffering and/or torment?

4. The traveler describes Cecilia Gallerani as whose adolescent mistress in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

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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