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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Levi consider the duty of historians?
(a) To tell the story of survivors.
(b) To describe a state of constant fear.
(c) To examine stereotypes.
(d) To explain the feeling of extreme hunger.

2. Which was NOT a reason that Jews have no where to run?
(a) They had no citizenship.
(b) They had no jobs.
(c) They had no property.
(d) They had no relatives.

3. What does Amery write about?
(a) The pros and cons of being an intellectual in Auschwitz.
(b) Why the Nazi officials deserve to die.
(c) His friendship with Primo Levi in Auschwitz.
(d) His work in the resistance movement.

4. What must align at roll calls?
(a) The lines the prisoners stand in.
(b) The uniforms of the prisoners.
(c) The number of officers.
(d) The tally of people.

5. About what did prisoners speculate?
(a) What type of person was most heroic.
(b) When Hitler would die.
(c) The date of liberation.
(d) What type of death would be least painful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Amery arrested by the Gestapo?

2. What did train convoys from Italy carry?

3. Why does Levi want Survival in Auschwitz to be published in German?

4. If an escapee was found, what happened?

5. How many times did Levi fight back against a fellow prisoner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were prisoners ordered to take their valuables with them on their journey to the lager?

2. How did Levi feel after he kicked Elias?

3. What happened in the roll call when a prisoner was missing?

4. What happened to intellectuals who did manage to flee Germany "beforehand?"

5. Levi considers the violence perpetrated by the Nazis to have been useless except for one thing. What was it?

6. Why do the stories of survivors become less important to passing generations?

7. Describe the overall feeling of the majority of letters Levi receives.

8. What does Levi think about Amery's definition of an intellectual?

9. Who were counted at roll calls?

10. What is the last stereotype that the author tries to dissuade?

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