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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what point did Hitler begin denying the truth?
(a) After Stalingrad.
(b) During liberation of the lagers.
(c) After the invasion of France.
(d) After the invasion of Poland.

2. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Fear.
(d) Shame.

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

4. Monowitz was part of which camp?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Auschwitz.

5. What was the place of the Sonderkommandos within the Lager?
(a) They were kept segregated.
(b) They moved about freely.
(c) They shared barracks with other prisoners.
(d) They only ate with other prisoners.

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

7. Why did Levi's Kapo disappear?
(a) A prisoner assigned him to another barracks.
(b) He escaped the camp.
(c) He collaborated with the Nazis.
(d) A prisoner switched his number on a list.

8. What did Louis Darquier de Pellepoix do after he was caught?
(a) He blamed the authoritative nature of the Nazi party.
(b) He admitted all of the crimes that he committed during the war.
(c) He denied his part in deportations and gas chambers.
(d) He blamed Eichmann and Hoss for his crimes.

9. What does survival depend upon?
(a) Feeling heroic.
(b) Collaborating with the SS.
(c) Putting oneself first.
(d) Helping others.

10. Why does Levi feel he is able to write on behalf of survivors?
(a) He was given their consent.
(b) He saw death close up.
(c) He is good at psychoanalysis.
(d) He has overall perspective.

11. According to Levi, when do survivors experience angst?
(a) When they hear other Germans' stories.
(b) When they refuse to communicate.
(c) When they communicate too much.
(d) When they tell their stories to their families.

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

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

14. Which characterized the German spoken in the Lager?
(a) It was a harsh version of the language.
(b) It was a dialect that has some Yiddish mixed in.
(c) It was overly simplistic.
(d) It was a refined version of the language.

15. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?
(a) They were unaccostemed to manual labor.
(b) They watched those around them die.
(c) They suffered least.
(d) They befriended the Nazis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Levi's friend Alberto stop being critical of those who consoled themselves with illusions?

2. Which of the following was NOT a common justification that Nazis used when confessing?

3. Why did Germans need collaborators?

4. How did Germans often coerce prisoners into being collaborators?

5. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?

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