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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Stereotypes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Levi, what happened to prisoners who know no German?
(a) They had an especially hard time in the lager.
(b) They escaped into a world of silence.
(c) They were kept unaware of the horrors around them.
(d) They had translators who helped them.

4. According to Levi, why were the sonderkommandos at Birkenau able to stage a rebellion?
(a) They had time to plan.
(b) They understood their oppressors.
(c) They had efficient leaders.
(d) They were well fed.

5. According to Levi, what were people who were denied freedom in a place where freedom was considered a right expected to do?
(a) Accept and survive.
(b) Protest and rally.
(c) Write or speak out.
(d) Escape or rebel.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which camp is there NO rebellion?

2. What happened to Germans who were found helping Jews escape?

3. What happened when there was an anomaly in a roll call?

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

5. Which statement is true of the rebellions?

(see the answer key)

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