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

2. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1929.

3. Who stands against the “diabolical” concept of dancing at Auschwitz and condemns those who danced, regardless of the fact that he’d joined in, in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11?
(a) Rabbi Dan.
(b) G. Earwig.
(c) Father Mikal.
(d) Rabbi Glock.

4. What word from Part IV: “In Paradise” opens in Chapters 15 refers to a loud electric horn, formerly used on automobiles and now often used as a warning signal?
(a) Shofar.
(b) Kibbutz.
(c) Klaxon.
(d) Kaddish.

5. When is the bus said to be departing for Cracow from the concentration camp in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15?
(a) Early evening.
(b) Late evening.
(c) Midday.
(d) Early morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

2. How many female prisoners were held in each barrack of the women’s quarters, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?

3. Who tells the story about the Jewish family hiding in a secret hiding place in a Warsaw house and was then discovered by the Gestapo because of the little girl who wouldn’t stop crying in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

4. When did Tadeusz Borowski die?

5. 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?

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. What is significant about the tattoo that Malan shows Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

3. What does Father Mikal discuss with Olin in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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