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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 museum does Olin visit in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(b) The National Gallery in Prague.
(c) The Musée du Louvre.
(d) The Czartoryski Museum.

2. When was Tadeusz Borowski married to his fiancée Maria?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1939.

3. 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) The use of birth control.
(b) Gay marriage.
(c) The ordination of female priests.
(d) Admission of guild during the Holocaust.

4. When was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn born?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1922.

5. Who is the rabbi that leads the Jewish prayer service by the ash pit in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10?
(a) Rabbi Glock.
(b) Rabbi Appelfeld.
(c) Rabbi Dan.
(d) Rabbi Stein.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 means marked by characteristics of an earlier period, or antiquated?

3. Whom does the narrator refer to as “Becca’s sarcastic lover” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

4. 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”?

5. According to the former patient of Dr. Allgeier’s who became a camp guard, Olin’s mother was recognized on the selection platform at Auschwitz in what year?

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

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

4. What does Olin encounter when his bus reaches Cracow in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?

5. How is the character of Stanislav K. described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?

6. 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?

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

8. How is the theme of the human capacity for evil explored in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?

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

10. What reason does Olin give for his family’s failure to search for his mother when he “bears witness” in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?

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