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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Romania.
(c) Canada.
(d) The United States.

2. Father Mikal implies in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 that the mother-superior warned him that who had brought malicious gossip from their diocese to the retreat?
(a) Sister Catherine.
(b) Sister Ann-Marie.
(c) Sister Christina.
(d) Sister Sarah.

3. Who is described as “Becca’s companion, a violinist with long black hair” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
(a) Malan.
(b) Jaroslav.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Rainer.

4. Erna tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the few Jews that returned to Oswiecim were expelled in what year by Communists?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

5. According to the former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who became a camp guard, Olin’s mother was recognized on the selection platform at Auschwitz in what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1940.

6. When was Tadeusz Borowski married to his fiancée Maria?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1942.

7. What word used by Father Mikal in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 means easily influenced?
(a) Impressionable.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Sardonic.
(d) Disingenuous.

8. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 refers to a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing medicinal substances?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Elixir.

9. Malan says to Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13, “The only way to understand such evil is to” what?
(a) “Accept it.”
(b) “Embrace it.”
(c) “Reimagine it.”
(d) “Enter into it.”

10. What word used by Dr. Stern in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 means very sheer and light, or almost transparent or translucent?
(a) Disingenuous.
(b) Apocryphal.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Diaphanous.

11. What “confession” does Olin make before the other retreat attendees at the meditation meeting in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?
(a) He divorced his wife because she was Jewish.
(b) His uncle was Adolf Hitler.
(c) His mother was Jewish.
(d) His father was an SS officer.

12. The narrator says in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the “last prisoners in the Cracow ghetto, [Olin] has read, were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August” of what year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1945.

13. What are the lyrics of the children’s lullaby that Sister Catherine translates into English for Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) “Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffett.”
(b) “London Bridge is falling down.”
(c) “Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies.”
(d) “Early in the morning, God willing, you shall awaken.”

14. Who does Olin describe in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having “celebrated that vital joy in his atavistic impulse to devour the raw heart of a deer that is slain bare-handed”?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

15. What word from the novel refers to the religious official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical portion of a service and sings or chants the prayers?
(a) Cantor.
(b) Shofar.
(c) Kaddish.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?

2. Whom does the narrator refer to as “Becca’s sarcastic lover” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

3. Who is the young man that Olin encounters outside of a cottage by the concentration camp and holding a blueprint in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?

4. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?

5. What is the name of the priest that accompanies the two Catholic novices at the retreat?

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