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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 was the job of the Sonderkommandos?
(a) To give out the food rations.
(b) To assign jobs to the new arrivals.
(c) To run the gas chambers and the ovens.
(d) To clean the barracks.

2. What happened to Germans who were found helping Jews escape?
(a) They suffered at the hands of the Gestapo.
(b) They were considered prisoners of war.
(c) They risked being sent to the lagers.
(d) They were unable to get jobs.

3. Who orated in the style of Hitler?
(a) Eichmann.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Alberto.
(d) Chaim Rumkowski.

4. Who does Levi think is in the gray zone for ordering an underling to kill someone?
(a) Hans Biebow.
(b) Muhsfeld.
(c) Chaim Rumkowski.
(d) Hitler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Monowitz receive new prisoners?

2. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?

3. What did Mala Zimetbaum do that frustrated the Nazis?

4. According to Levi, who may judge collaborators?

5. What does Levi consider the duty of historians?

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