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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4 refers to a liturgical prayer consisting of three or six verses?
(a) Chiaroscuro.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Visage.
(d) Shofar.

2. What is Dr. Stern’s specialization, according to the narrator in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Epidemiology of Disease.
(c) Neurology.
(d) Evolutionary biology.

3. How old was Olin when he was sent away to boarding school, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 5.
(b) 13.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

4. Who is the survivor-writer that is quoted in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3 has having said “The Holocaust belongs to the type of enormous experience that reduces one to silence. Any utterance, any statement, any ‘answer’ is tiny, meaningless, and occasionally ridiculous”?
(a) Brigitte Frank.
(b) Dr. Anders Stern.
(c) Hanz Frank.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

5. When were “those heathen Turks finally driven from Vienna,” according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1726.
(c) 1241.
(d) 1495.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was chemist and writer Primo Levi born?

2. What word from Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 means to fear something greatly and/or to be in extreme apprehension of something?

3. The door that the traveler knocks on at the concentration camp when he arrives is the door to what former structure in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

4. Who is the “glum American rabbi” that instructs the other retreat attendees about the ram’s horn in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. The man who points out the different locations at the camp in the dormitory in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2 says to the traveler, “Why do you stare, if I may ask? You never see” what before?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe the narrative style established in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

2. How would you describe the symbolic significance of the character of G. Earwig in the novel?

3. What symbolic items did Olin’s grandfather bring with him to the New World, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 5? Why?

4. What confrontation takes place between Earwig and Olin outside the crematorium in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

5. How is the setting of Kasmierz described in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1?

6. Where has “the traveler” arrived in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 1? What does he learn upon his arrival?

7. How does Dr. Stern describe the mission of the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3? Who has come to attend the retreat?

8. What is taking place when Mr. Earwig initiates a conflict in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 4?

9. What is on the agenda for the first morning of the retreat in Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 3?

10. How is the setting described in the opening of Part I: “A Guest of Poland,” Chapter 2?

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