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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 6 means characterized by bitter or scornful derision?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Sardonic.

2. 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) Anglophile.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Pedantic.

3. 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) Chaplain.
(b) Ecumenical.
(c) Vorarbeiter.
(d) Chiaroscuro.

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

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

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

7. The ship that G. Earwig’s family departed on was supposedly setting out for what destination?
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) Palestine.
(d) Romania.

8. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11 refers to a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing medicinal substances?
(a) Kibbutz.
(b) Shofar.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Elixir.

9. 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) Lublin.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Kasimierz.

10. 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) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

11. What personal torment does “Big Erna” describe when she stands before the attendees in the dining area in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) The bombing of her home.
(b) Her children’s illnesses and deaths.
(c) Unjust imprisonment.
(d) Sexual abuse.

12. Who is the young man that Olin encounters outside of a cottage by the concentration camp and holding a blueprint in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Rabbi Dan.
(b) Mirek.
(c) Stefan.
(d) Dr. Stern.

13. 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) Viktor Frankl.
(b) Hanz Frank.
(c) Aharon Appelfeld.
(d) David Stonior.

14. Who is described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 as the lone Ostjude survivor among those at the retreat?
(a) G. Earwig.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Moishe T.
(d) Rabbi Glock.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was Josef Mengele’s nickname?

4. How many synagogues does Erna say used to serve Oswiecim in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?

5. How did Tadeusz Borowski commit suicide?

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