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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Memory of the Offense.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?
(a) They still have much to learn about camp life.
(b) They only want to learn about first-arrival impressions.
(c) They distrust survivors' memories of events.
(d) They have finished studying World War II.

4. What do victims tend to do when they remember?
(a) Focus on the worst situations.
(b) Remember every detail exactly as it happened.
(c) Skim over painful episodes.
(d) Assign blame to themselves.

5. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?
(a) Frued.
(b) Dante.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Weisel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hitler at the time of his death?

2. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?

3. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?

4. According to Levi, what happens when a story is often retold?

5. In what year did the tide of World War II change?

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