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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In what year does the narrator say that Olin’s grandparents “had prevailed upon their son Alexei, a young lieutenant of the cavalry, to escort them in their flight abroad to England and America” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1939.

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

6. What word is used to describe the ram’s horn blown as a wind instrument in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?
(a) Visage.
(b) Shofar.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

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

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

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

10. 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) “What happened here fifty years ago.”
(c) “His guilt in the entire affair.”
(d) “Who he really is.”

11. 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) “Cyanide gases.”
(b) “Chiaroscuro.”
(c) “Genetic science.”
(d) “Experimental medicine.”

12. 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) Kasimierz.
(c) Szlachta.
(d) Treblinka.

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

14. What year does the narrator say it is in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1996.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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”?

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

5. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?

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