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

2. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?
(a) Dante.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Weisel.
(d) Frued.

3. What happened to corpses?
(a) They were returned to family members.
(b) They were given a proper burial.
(c) They were allowed to decompose.
(d) They were turned into industrial products.

4. What do victims tend to do when they remember?
(a) Focus on the worst situations.
(b) Assign blame to themselves.
(c) Skim over painful episodes.
(d) Remember every detail exactly as it happened.

5. Monowitz was part of which camp?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Buchenwald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Kapos?

2. What predominant emotion did survivors feel at Liberation as depicted in literature and in the movies?

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

4. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?

5. When Levi's squad was clearing rubble, what did he find?

(see the answer key)

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