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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many “pilgrims” does Dr. Stern say have come to attend the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) 230.
(b) 56.
(c) 103.
(d) 140.

2. 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?
(a) Dan.
(b) James Glock.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Rainer.

3. From what narrative point of view is In Paradise related?
(a) Second person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) Third person.
(d) First person.

4. When was the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1826.

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

6. 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.

7. 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 compassion.”
(b) “Our grief.”
(c) “Our digestive tracts.”
(d) “Our genetic code.”

8. 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 Mental Block.”
(b) “The Death Block.”
(c) “The Sleeping Block.”
(d) “The Medical Block.”

9. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Evolutionary biology.
(b) Epidemiology of Disease.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Neurology.

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

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

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) G. Earwig.
(c) Malan.
(d) Stefan.

13. The couple that take the traveler to see the sights of the city in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1 take him past the Royal Palace and what cathedral?
(a) Cathedral Basilica.
(b) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
(c) Cathedral of St. Adalbert.
(d) Wawel Cathedral.

14. During what century does the narrator say Poland “ruled all Europe from the Baltic east to the Black Sea” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The thirteenth century.
(b) The seventeenth century.
(c) The fifteenth century.
(d) The sixteenth century.

15. 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) King Kasimierz.
(b) Rudolf Höss.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 refers to people of noble or high rank?

2. 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?

3. 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”?

4. What does Mr. Earwig say his first name is in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. 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?

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