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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. Why should survivors' stories be read critically?
(a) Survivors like to tell lies about their experiences.
(b) Each story tells the same information about the war.
(c) Survivors have a bad grasp of the German language.
(d) Each story is individual and lacks overall perspective.

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

3. How did most prisoners arrive at Auschwitz?
(a) On foot.
(b) By train.
(c) By bus.
(d) By car.

4. Why does Levi feel the Germans suffered "willed ignorance" about the camps?
(a) Slave labor was an entrenched part of German society.
(b) They knew that liberation would be coming soon.
(c) They were happy to be getting supplies during war time.
(d) The prisoners in the camps were all hardened criminals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the job of the Sonderkommandos?

2. Which is the best description of Chaim Rumkowski?

3. What does Levi believe about judging the Sonderkommandos?

4. When were Eichmann and Hoss born?

5. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?

(see the answer key)

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