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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Useless Violence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Hourly.
(b) Frequently.
(c) Never.
(d) Rarely.

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

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

4. Which is something that prisoners did receive provisions for?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Uniforms.
(d) Bedding.

5. Why did Levi know some German?
(a) He learned it through his work as a chemist.
(b) His German grandfather spoke it to him.
(c) German is similar to Italian.
(d) He learned it as a student.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Levi think is the worst crime of the Nazis?

2. What does Levi think most survivors feel at Liberation?

3. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?

4. What happened to Levi's tattoo after the war?

5. Who was particularly offended by being tattooed?

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