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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 was the camp's second language?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Polish.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

2. The student from Bavaria, H.L., first writes to Levi in what year?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1952.

3. In what year did the tide of World War II change?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1940.

4. What does Levi call the daily rituals of the lager?
(a) "A rhythm of suffering."
(b) "A struggle for cleanliness."
(c) "A subversion of dignity."
(d) "An offense to modesty."

5. About what did prisoners speculate?
(a) What type of person was most heroic.
(b) What type of death would be least painful.
(c) The date of liberation.
(d) When Hitler would die.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did new prisoners bring with them?

3. Dr. T.H. of Hamburg claims what?

4. What does Levi think it is his mission to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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