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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. 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) “Enter into it.”
(c) “Embrace it.”
(d) “Reimagine it.”

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

3. What Zen poet is described by Ben Lama in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written of a “glad willingness to exchange the most magnificent metaphor about the sea for the immediacy, the pure reality, or one splash of cold surf full in the face”?
(a) Master Dogen.
(b) Hanz Frank.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Ryokan.

4. What is the name of Eva’s friend who is described as a self-taught painter and who survived at Auschwitz for four years?
(a) Lublin.
(b) Rainer.
(c) Malan.
(d) Stefan.

5. 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) David Stonior.
(d) Aharon Appelfeld.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What word from Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7 means resisting authority or control, or disobedient?

4. Where does Malan suggest Olin visit “the old Franciscan cathedral and have a look at its modern stained-glass window” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Sister Catherine relate to Olin when she greets him in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?

2. How does G. Earwig describe the loss of his family in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?

3. How does the narrator describe the mood of the attendees in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

4. What information does Father Mikal reveal about Stefan in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

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

6. Where does Olin go on the morning of the departure in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15? What does he do here?

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

8. How does Olin come to meet Sister Catherine in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?

9. What information does Earwig relate regarding his family in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?

10. Who steps forward to “bear witness” at the meditation meeting in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10? What does this character reveal?

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