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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Gray Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Primo Levi's profession?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Philospher.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Chemist.

2. After the war, what was a major source of reconstructing what happened?
(a) The stories of liberating soldiers.
(b) The evidence of Nazi officials.
(c) The ruins of labor camps.
(d) The stories of survivors.

3. What were the Sonderkommandos taught?
(a) To treat fellow Jews with respect.
(b) That fellow Jews are subhuman.
(c) To believe the German propaganda.
(d) That they are privileged.

4. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?
(a) They suffered least.
(b) They befriended the Nazis.
(c) They watched those around them die.
(d) They were unaccostemed to manual labor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?

2. Why does Levi feel the Germans suffered "willed ignorance" about the camps?

3. Who was Hans Biebow in relation to Chaim Rumkowski?

4. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?

5. What did the other prisoners think about the Sonderkommandos?

(see the answer key)

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