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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Zen master is cited in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written, “All the Universe is one bright pearl. What need is there to understand it?”
(a) Master Appelfeld.
(b) Master Levi.
(c) Master Dogen.
(d) Master Ryokan.

2. The narrator says in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 that “Olin’s brief marriage ended in divorce on grounds of what his wife’s attorney cited as” what?
(a) “Addiction to adultery.”
(b) “Alcoholism and abuse.”
(c) “Alienation of the affections.”
(d) “Homosexual tendencies.”

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

4. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?
(a) Emilie Adam.
(b) Edith Frankl.
(c) Sarah Glock.
(d) Maria Appelfeld.

5. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1918.

6. Where does the bus drop off G. Earwig in the opening of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) At a hotel.
(b) At the airport.
(c) At the cathedral.
(d) At the train station.

7. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1962.

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

9. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?
(a) St. Catherine of Siena.
(b) St. Catherine of Padua.
(c) St. Catherine of Milan.
(d) St. Catherine of Warsaw.

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

11. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Sardonic.

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

13. 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 Angela.
(b) Sister Maria.
(c) Sister Catherine.
(d) Sister Ann-Marie.

14. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?
(a) Early evening.
(b) Early morning.
(c) Midday.
(d) Late evening.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Josef Mengele located at the time of his death?

2. What Zen poet is described by Ben Lama in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written of a “glad willingness to exchange the most magnificent metaphor about the sea for the immediacy, the pure reality, or one splash of cold surf full in the face”?

3. Who questions whether Beethoven’s joy in Ode to Joy is indicative of transcendence in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

4. What name does Olin call out when chasing after Sister Catherine in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

5. What does Malan say in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 “can speak when words cannot”?

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