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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Letters from Germans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What function did ghettos serve?
(a) They cut off communication between people.
(b) They gave Jews a safe place to live.
(c) They kept offensive books away from people.
(d) They assisted people in learning new languages.

2. Who employed Levi?
(a) IG Farben Industries.
(b) Monowitz Incorporated.
(c) The Auschwitz SS.
(d) A chemistry laboratory.

3. What saved Levi from the gas chambers?
(a) His strength as a laborer.
(b) A case of mistaken identity.
(c) A compassionate SS guard.
(d) His training as a chemist.

4. During the early part of the 1960s, about how many letters did Levi receive?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 400.
(d) 100.

5. When was Primo Levi brought to Auschwitz?
(a) Near the end of the war.
(b) In the first months of the war.
(c) Before Germany invaded Italy.
(d) In the middle of the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did Levi fight back against a fellow prisoner?

2. According to Levi, what were people who were denied freedom in a place where freedom was considered a right expected to do?

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

4. What do Amery and Levi agree about cultivated people?

5. What daily ritual was emblematic of life in the lager?

(see the answer key)

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