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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) New York.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Delaware.

2. Professor Adina Schreier is a teacher and historian from what country?
(a) Canada.
(b) France.
(c) Israel.
(d) Bolivia.

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) Brigitte Frank.
(d) Mary Höss.

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

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

6. Of the visitor, the narrator says in the conclusion of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “The oppression seeping from these walls, he thinks, can only be deepened by his own misgivings as to” what?
(a) “Why he has come here in the first place.”
(b) “Who he really is.”
(c) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(d) “His guilt in the entire affair.”

7. 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 pearl bracelet.
(c) A gold ring.
(d) A photograph.

8. 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.

9. In what room does the traveler eat leftover food after his arrival at the concentration camp in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The gas chamber.
(b) The SS mess hall.
(c) The selection platform.
(d) The coronation room.

10. What is the name of Clements Olin’s father in the novel?
(a) Xavier Olinski.
(b) Michael Olinski.
(c) Alexei Olinski.
(d) David Olinski.

11. What hereditary class does the narrator say Old Baron Olinski had brought his antique red leather boots to the New World to denote, in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The schlachta class.
(b) The rycerz class.
(c) The slave class.
(d) The wiec class.

12. The narrator says of the traveler and young couple in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2, “Not that he’d deserved much courtesy. They had been kind to lug him thirty miles on a winter road to this” what?
(a) “Almanach de Gotha.”
(b) “Szlachta.”
(c) “Cloaca maxima.”
(d) "Jedem das Seine."

13. 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?
(a) Dread.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Pedantic.

14. 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 Maximilian.
(b) Saint Mary.
(c) Saint David.
(d) Saint Christina.

15. 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) Hanz Frank.
(b) Rabbi Dan.
(c) Viktor Frankl.
(d) Father Mikal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Stern’s first name in the novel?

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 refers to weariness from bodily or mental exertion?

3. What literary work of Tadeusz Borowski is described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

4. Whom does the traveler recall having said to him of his trip to Poland, “You really have no choice about it, do you?” in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

5. Who painted Young Woman with Ermine?

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