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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What “confession” does Olin make before the other retreat attendees at the meditation meeting in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 14?
2. What word used in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12 means marked by characteristics of an earlier period, or antiquated?
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?
4. When did Tadeusz Borowski die?
5. Erna tells Olin in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 10 that the few Jews that returned to Oswiecim were expelled in what year by Communists?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Olin come to meet Sister Catherine in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
2. Why does Olin go into the town of Oswiecim in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8? What does he take with him?
3. 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?
4. How does the narrator describe the Olinskis’ efforts to locate Clements’s mother in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
5. What story does Rainer reveal of his family in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 7?
6. What happens with Sister Ann-Marie during the prayer service in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 8?
7. Where does Olin go on the morning of the departure in Part IV: “In Paradise,” Chapter 15? What does he do here?
8. How are the tensions between the retreat attendees described in Part II: “In the Ogre’s Cave,” Chapter 6?
9. What information does Sister Catherine relate to Olin when she greets him in the beginning of Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 12?
10. How does the dancing come about in Part III: “Dancing at Auschwitz,” Chapter 11? Who dances alongside Olin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the city of Oswiecim and discuss its significance to Clements Olin in the narrative. What does Clements point out of the setting when it is encountered? What relationship to Mirek and Wanda have to this city?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the character of Ben Lama in the narrative. What is Ben Lama’s role at the retreat? Where is he from? What are Ben’s objectives at the retreat?
Essay Topic 3
Art and Expression
a. Discuss the artist Malan’s perceptions of art and expression in the novel. Why is Malan able to express the evils of the Holocaust through art more than he is able to through words?
b. How does the theme of art and expression apply to Clements Olin’s character journey in the novel?
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