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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, how many pints of soup were brought from the Italian civilian workers?

2. In Chapter 17, how many men went on the twelve-mile march?

3. How long had Schepschel been living in the Lager by Chapter 9?

4. Who were the "mussulmans"?

5. What months were winter in the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was a man hung in Chapter 15?

2. In Chapter 11, what job did Levi perform with Jean?

3. In Chapter 12, what news did the prisoners hear and how did it make them feel?

4. Who were the Prominents?

5. Who was the head of the Chemical Kommando?

6. Why was it better to be beaten than to work to exhaustion?

7. Why did Levi compare the camp to an experiment?

8. What was a Pikolo?

9. How did Jean make himself indispensable to Alex in Chapter 11?

10. In Chapter 12, when and from where did convoys begin to arrive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 9, Levi believed that there were two classes of men in the Lager: the drowned and the saved. Who were the drowned? How did their actions get them exterminated? Who were the survivors? What did they do that helped them survive? Why did Levi divide the prisoners only into two classes.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 12, Levi and others had relationships with civilians. What were most of these relationships like? What material need did a civilian provide Levi? How did some civilians look at the prisoners? Why did they help them anyway?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 7, Levi described a good day. What two things happened on that day to make it good? Why did the sun mean so much? Why was an additional amount of soup welcomed? Why did two small things make such a difference in it being a good or bad day?

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