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

2. 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?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

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

4. Whom does the narrator refer to as “Becca’s sarcastic lover” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?
(a) Malan.
(b) Stefan.
(c) Rabbi Dan.
(d) Jaroslav.

5. Adina tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that Sister Catherine was suspended from her teaching ministry and her novitiate for questioning the papal ban against what?
(a) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.
(b) The use of birth control.
(c) Gay marriage.
(d) The ordination of female priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?

2. What was the name of Clements Olin’s maternal grandmother?

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. 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”?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Erna reveal to Olin prior to the meditation meeting in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

2. What realities about his grandparents does Olin come to terms with in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

3. How does the narrator describe the correlations between art and evil in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

4. What story does Stefan reveal when he steps forward to “bear witness” in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

5. What does Olin consider the phenomenon of the dancing to be in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

6. What does Olin learn about Father Mikal in Cracow in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

7. How are the tensions between the retreat attendees described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

8. What happens with Sister Ann-Marie during the prayer service in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?

9. Who follows Olin as he searches for Brzezinka in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8? Why is Olin looking for this setting?

10. What story does Rainer reveal of his family in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

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