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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the camp that the traveler has come to in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?
(a) The Mauthausen-Gusen camp.
(b) The Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
(c) The Chelmno extermination camp.
(d) The Auschwitz concentration camp.

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

3. 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 wiec class.
(b) The rycerz class.
(c) The slave class.
(d) The schlachta class.

4. What does Mr. Earwig say his first name is in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Gregory.
(b) Georgie.
(c) Gene.
(d) Grayson.

5. Who does Dr. Stern describe as “Me-firsters even in grief, these people” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Polish.
(c) The Jews.
(d) The French.

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

7. 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 pumpkin.
(d) A house.

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

9. What is the name of the old Jewish quarter where the traveler and his young tour guides stop at a café in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Kasimierz.
(d) Szlachta.

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

11. 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 David.
(c) Saint Christina.
(d) Saint Maximilian.

12. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to the distribution of light and shade in a picture?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Visage.
(c) Silhouette.
(d) Ecumenical.

13. Where is Ben Lama’s retreat assistant from, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

14. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandfather?
(a) Dr. Glock.
(b) Dr. Schwartz.
(c) Dr. Appelfeld.
(d) Dr. Allgeier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Dr. Olin attended university in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

2. What mountains does the narrator describe rising in the south toward Slovakia in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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