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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. Where does the bus drop off G. Earwig in the opening of Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16?
(a) At the train station.
(b) At the cathedral.
(c) At a hotel.
(d) At the airport.

2. 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) Stefan.
(b) Malan.
(c) Rainer.
(d) Lublin.

3. As Olin attempts to make sense of the transcendent experience of the dancing in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11, the narrator says, “Out on that platform at odd moments of each day, a presence had risen that, for want of a better term, [Olin] calls” what in his journal?
(a) “Earth apprehension.”
(b) “Collective consciousness.”
(c) “Supreme understanding.”
(d) “Alienation of the affections.”

4. How many digits make up Malan’s prison number from Auschwitz?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. Whom does Sister Catherine describe as her namesake in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 9?
(a) St. Catherine of Warsaw.
(b) St. Catherine of Padua.
(c) St. Catherine of Siena.
(d) St. Catherine of Milan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The excommunicated monk Stefan’s priory is in the region of what notorious death camp north of Warsaw, according to the narrator in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?

2. Malan says to Olin in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 13, “The only way to understand such evil is to” what?

3. What Zen master is cited in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 16 as having written, “All the Universe is one bright pearl. What need is there to understand it?”

4. 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?

5. In what year did Josef Mengele join the Nazi Party?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the dancing come about in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11? Who dances alongside Olin?

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

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

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

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

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

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