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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. How often did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Frequently.
(b) Hourly.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Never.

2. What nationality is Primo Levi?
(a) German.
(b) Italian.
(c) Polish.
(d) French.

3. What does Levi believe about judging the Sonderkommandos?
(a) He feels they should be judged harshly.
(b) He feels judgment must be suspended.
(c) He feels judgment must be handed down by the courts.
(d) He feels they should be judged leniently.

4. Who were most traumatized by relieving themselves in public?
(a) Old people.
(b) Young adults.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the place of the Sonderkommandos within the Lager?

3. What happened to Germans who were found helping Jews escape?

4. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?

5. Why did Germans need collaborators?

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