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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Letters from Germans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?
(a) They have finished studying World War II.
(b) They only want to learn about first-arrival impressions.
(c) They still have much to learn about camp life.
(d) They distrust survivors' memories of events.

2. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?
(a) People can and should talk.
(b) Talk is an antidote to negative silence.
(c) People's messages are understood.
(d) Talk is a veil over existential silence.

3. What was one aspect in which life in the lager that was a caricature of army life?
(a) Eating soup rations.
(b) Making bunk beds.
(c) Following orders.
(d) Carrying weapons.

4. When Levi's squad was clearing rubble, what did he find?
(a) A gold bracelet.
(b) New shoes.
(c) Fresh water.
(d) A heel of bread.

5. What happens to Alberto?
(a) He escaped.
(b) He was liberated.
(c) He disappeared.
(d) He was sent to a different camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Levi corresponds with Hety S. of Wiesbaden for approximately how many years?

2. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?

3. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?

4. What does Hety claim about Albert Speer after her interview with him?

5. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?

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