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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How old was Olin when he was sent away to boarding school, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 13.
(d) 10.

5. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means ostentatious in one’s learning, or overly concerned with minute formalisms?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Vorarbeiter.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Ecumenical.

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

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

8. 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) Ecumenical.
(c) Visage.
(d) Silhouette.

9. 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?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His stepmother.
(d) His father.

10. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5 refers to people of noble or high rank?
(a) Vorarbeiter.
(b) Patricians.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

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

12. 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 slave class.
(c) The rycerz class.
(d) The wiec class.

13. 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 Elbe River.
(b) The Danube River.
(c) The Vistula River.
(d) The Oka River.

14. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 means extreme suffering and/or torment?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Martyrdom.
(d) Kaddish.

15. What word from the novel refers to an Israeli community settlement, usually agricultural, that is organized under collectivist principles?
(a) Kaddish.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Shofar.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. The narrator describes Dr. Stern in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 as “one of those perverse intellectuals who enjoy the role of” what?

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

5. What word used in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 means general or universal?

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