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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the prayer that is translated by the rabbi as “Making Peace by Making Whole” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Oseh Shalom.
(b) Szlachta.
(c) Olsztyn.
(d) Almanach de Gotha.

2. What was Josef Mengele’s nickname?
(a) The Angel of Death.
(b) The Mad Doctor.
(c) The President of Evil.
(d) The Murder Machine.

3. Who tells the story about the Jewish family hiding in a secret hiding place in a Warsaw house and was then discovered by the Gestapo because of the little girl who wouldn’t stop crying in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
(a) Sister Ann-Marie.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Sister Catherine.
(d) Eva.

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

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

6. Who questions whether Beethoven’s joy in Ode to Joy is indicative of transcendence in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) Rabbi Glock.
(b) Rabbi Dan.
(c) Rainer.
(d) Hanz Frank.

7. Who takes Olin’s hand after Sister Ann-Marie wriggles free from the dancing circle in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Sister Catherine.
(b) Brigitte Frank.
(c) Rabbi Glock.
(d) Stefan.

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

9. Who is said to be “grievously disappointed in his death camp experience and ‘heavy of heart’ as well, perceiving all Poland as ‘one big cemetery’” in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) Viktor Frankl.
(b) Rabbi Dan.
(c) Rabbi Glock.
(d) Jaroslav.

10. 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 Dogen.
(b) Master Ryokan.
(c) Master Levi.
(d) Master Appelfeld.

11. When was Tadeusz Borowski transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1945.

12. Who is Erna speaking of when she says to Olin in Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15, “It’s all taken care of, Baron. He’s finished”?
(a) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(b) Father Eugene.
(c) Father Mikal.
(d) Stefan.

13. 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) Lublin.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Szlachta.
(d) Kasimierz.

14. 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) “Alienation of the affections.”
(b) “Alcoholism and abuse.”
(c) “Homosexual tendencies.”
(d) “Addiction to adultery.”

15. What is the name of the Polish sculptor at the retreat who argues with the Jewish attendees in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
(a) Zygmunt.
(b) Malan.
(c) Rainer.
(d) Hanz Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?

3. Who stands against the “diabolical” concept of dancing at Auschwitz and condemns those who danced, regardless of the fact that he’d joined in, in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

4. Who relates the ancient tale of a man in sorrow who is comforted by a rabbi who tells him: “The only whole heart is the broken heart. But it must be wholly broken” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

5. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?

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