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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Malan say in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13 “can speak when words cannot”?
(a) “The hand.”
(b) “The soul.”
(c) “Love.”
(d) “Music.”

3. 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) Aharon Appelfeld.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Franz Xaver Schwarz.
(d) Anna Akhmatova.

4. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 means lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity?
(a) Disingenuous.
(b) Apocryphal.
(c) Sardonic.
(d) Recalcitrant.

5. How many languages does G. Earwig speak, “all of them poorly,” according to the narrator in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

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

8. 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) Malan.
(d) Stefan.

9. What word from Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 refers to an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, or military unit?
(a) Ecumenical.
(b) Chaplain.
(c) Chiaroscuro.
(d) Vorarbeiter.

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

11. How many digits make up Malan’s prison number from Auschwitz?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

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

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

14. 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) “Enter into it.”
(d) “Reimagine it.”

15. 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) Jaroslav.
(d) Rabbi Glock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 refers to a long, tapering flag?

2. 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”?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9 means of doubtful authorship or authenticity?

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

5. 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.?

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