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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7 means resisting authority or control, or disobedient?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Ecumenical.
(d) Recalcitrant.

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

3. 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) 1962.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1972.

4. Where was Josef Mengele located at the time of his death?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

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

6. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 refers to a person who is friendly to or admires England or English customs, etc.?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Anglophile.

7. Who informs Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14 that she has tracked down a former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who later worked as a camp guard?
(a) Sister Catherine.
(b) Anna Akhmatova.
(c) Erna.
(d) Brigitte Frank.

8. How many synagogues does Erna say used to serve Oswiecim in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

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

10. In the conclusion of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16, the narrator describes Olin, saying, “In the wavering of candles he sits motionless, broken-brained and” what?
(a) “Completely alone.”
(b) “Finally open to the world.”
(c) “Waiting.”
(d) “Wholly brokenhearted.”

11. For how many years does Malan say he was held prisoner at Auschwitz in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

12. What word used in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking sense or silly?
(a) Apocryphal.
(b) Disingenuous.
(c) Inane.
(d) Sardonic.

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

14. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1922.

15. 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) 1940.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the bus drop off G. Earwig in the opening of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

2. What is the name of Rainer’s uncle that he says he’s come to Auschwitz to honor in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6 means causing insidious harm or ruin?

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