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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Communicating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the other prisoners think about the Sonderkommandos?
(a) They deplored them for working for the oppressors.
(b) They wondered what it must be like to be debased.
(c) They admired their strength of character.
(d) They thought they were courageous for doing the dirty work.

2. What was the camp's second language?
(a) Italian.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) German.
(d) Polish.

3. In what year did the tide of World War II change?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1944.

4. What were Kapos?
(a) German guards with a low rank.
(b) Chiefs of squads or barracks.
(c) Recent arrivals to the lagers.
(d) Translators for the Germans.

5. Who confronts Levi after liberation?
(a) Daniele.
(b) The SS.
(c) Alberto.
(d) His kapo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason survivors feel guilty?

2. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?

3. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?

4. How did most prisoners arrive at Auschwitz?

5. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?

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