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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?
(a) “An Islamic Norwegian.”
(b) “An American Jew.”
(c) “A Nordic Jew.”
(d) “An Arabic Jew.”

2. Inside the concentration camp, the narrator describes Block 10 as the location where “the assorted sadisms” of what were administered, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “Genetic science.”
(b) “Cyanide gases.”
(c) “Experimental medicine.”
(d) “Chiaroscuro.”

3. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to the appearance of the face?
(a) Silhouette.
(b) Chiaroscuro.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Visage.

4. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?
(a) Michael.
(b) Anders.
(c) Howard.
(d) David.

5. What does the traveler attempt to give to Wanda before the couple departs, leaving him at the concentration camp, in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) A piece of amber.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) A pearl bracelet.

6. 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) Kaddish.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Shofar.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

7. For what saint do the Catholic novices offer a candle in the Hunger Cell in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Saint Mary.
(b) Saint Christina.
(c) Saint Maximilian.
(d) Saint David.

8. What city does the traveler arrive in after taking a cab from the airport in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Cracow.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Lublin.

9. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Tatra Mountains.
(b) The Pyrenees Mountains.
(c) The Carpathian Mountains.
(d) The Alps.

10. In what year did Rudolf Höss join the Nazi Party?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1922.

11. 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) A train car.
(b) A house.
(c) A pumpkin.
(d) An old car.

12. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?
(a) Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Pablo Picasso.
(d) Michelangelo.

13. By what name does the narrator describe Block 11 in the concentration camp in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) “The Medical Block.”
(b) “The Mental Block.”
(c) “The Death Block.”
(d) “The Sleeping Block.”

14. 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 gas chamber.
(b) The prayer room.
(c) The selections platform.
(d) The admissions building.

15. 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) Dr. Anders Stern.
(b) Aharon Appelfeld.
(c) Brigitte Frank.
(d) Hanz Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

2. What is the name of Wanda’s boyfriend who helps to show the visitor around in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

3. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?

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

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

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