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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) “London Bridge is falling down.”
(b) “Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffett.”
(c) “Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies.”
(d) “Early in the morning, God willing, you shall awaken.”

2. Whom does the narrator refer to as “Becca’s sarcastic lover” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?
(a) Jaroslav.
(b) Rabbi Dan.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Malan.

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Anglophile.

4. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?
(a) The ordination of female priests.
(b) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(c) The use of birth control.
(d) Gay marriage.

5. When was Josef Mengele born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1911.

6. What is the name of the one survivor on the fleet of ships that G. Earwig’s family fled on, according to the information he’s discovered in Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15?
(a) David Stonior.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

7. Who leads the Christian prayer service that Olin attends with Professor Adina Schreier in the beginning of Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
(a) Sister Maria.
(b) Sister Catherine.
(c) Sister Ann-Marie.
(d) Sister Angela.

8. What poet does Olin quote in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 when he describes “something not known to anyone at all but wild in our breast for centuries”?
(a) Primo Levi.
(b) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) Anna Akhmatova.

9. Where is Dr. Stern said to be from in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Sweden.

10. 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 Sarah.
(b) Sister Ann-Marie.
(c) Sister Christina.
(d) Sister Catherine.

11. The excommunicated monk Stefan’s priory is in the region of what notorious death camp north of Warsaw, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
(a) Szlachta.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Kasimierz.
(d) Lublin.

12. Where was Pope John Paul II born?
(a) Cracow, Poland.
(b) Moscow, Russia.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Wadowice, Poland.

13. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 means extremely or impassively steep?
(a) Precipitous.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Pedantic.

14. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9 means of doubtful authorship or authenticity?
(a) Recalcitrant.
(b) Sardonic.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Apocryphal.

15. Who first approaches Clements Olin in the mess hall to ask if he’s okay in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Father Mikal.
(b) Sister Ann-Marie.
(c) Eva.
(d) Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as “Becca’s companion, a violinist with long black hair” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

2. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?

3. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

4. When was Tadeusz Borowski transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof?

5. Where does Malan suggest Olin visit “the old Franciscan cathedral and have a look at its modern stained-glass window” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

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