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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Levi believe about judging the Sonderkommandos?
(a) He feels judgment must be handed down by the courts.
(b) He feels they should be judged leniently.
(c) He feels they should be judged harshly.
(d) He feels judgment must be suspended.

2. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) President of the Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) A sonderkommando.
(c) President of the Lodz Ghetto.
(d) A German officer.

3. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?
(a) They joined the Nazi party opportunistically.
(b) They had no choice in becoming Nazi officials.
(c) They should not have been punished for their actions.
(d) They suffered from memories of what they did during the war.

4. What did Chaim Rumkowski consider himself to be?
(a) A businessman.
(b) The doctor.
(c) The messiah.
(d) A rabbi.

5. Which of the following was NOT a common justification that Nazis used when confessing?
(a) Believing in Hitler's ideas.
(b) Living in an environment of fear.
(c) Following the orders of a superior.
(d) Being brought up in a racist environment.

6. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?
(a) With fear.
(b) As traitors.
(c) With suspicion.
(d) As non-Jews.

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

8. Which of the following did Levi think is the worst crime of the Nazis?
(a) Killing millions of Jews.
(b) Giving prisoners too little food.
(c) Causing people to lose faith.
(d) Shifting guilt to the victims.

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

10. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?
(a) Dante.
(b) Weisel.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Frued.

11. What does Levi think most survivors feel at Liberation?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Unexplicable anger.
(c) Unconditional happiness.
(d) Anxiety.

12. Why does Levi consider most survivors to be of the "privileged" class?
(a) They gained recognition after the lagers were liberated.
(b) They were generally the wealthiest prisoners.
(c) They were lucky enough to live through a horrible situation.
(d) They generally received more food than the people who died.

13. What does Levi contend about survivors' memories?
(a) They should not be believed.
(b) They need to be documented.
(c) They blur over time.
(d) They lead to nightmares.

14. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"
(a) Defense lawyers.
(b) They claim it on their own.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Victims' families.

15. Which of the following is NOT a reason survivors feel guilty?
(a) They did not do enough to oppose the system.
(b) They should have tried harder to escape into the forest.
(c) They failed to resist.
(d) They failed to help others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do victims tend to do when they remember?

2. What function did ghettos serve?

3. Why does Levi feel he is able to write on behalf of survivors?

4. Levi's knowledge of the German language was __________ in Auschwitz.

5. What were Kapos?

(see the answer keys)

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