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

2. What happens to Alberto?
(a) He was sent to a different camp.
(b) He was liberated.
(c) He disappeared.
(d) He escaped.

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

4. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?
(a) High level Nazi officials.
(b) Only oppressors.
(c) Only survivors.
(d) Survivors and oppressors.

5. Auschwitz was located in which country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Occupied Poland.
(c) Occupied France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Levi think is in the gray zone for ordering an underling to kill someone?

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

3. Why did Germans need collaborators?

4. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?

5. Which subset of prisoners does Levi think make the best observers?

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