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

2. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) A sonderkommando.
(b) President of the Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) President of the Lodz Ghetto.
(d) A German officer.

3. What does Levi think about power?
(a) That it is evil.
(b) That it is necessary.
(c) That it corrupts people.
(d) That it is intoxicating.

4. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?
(a) They should not have been punished for their actions.
(b) They joined the Nazi party opportunistically.
(c) They suffered from memories of what they did during the war.
(d) They had no choice in becoming Nazi officials.

5. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?
(a) They were unaccostemed to manual labor.
(b) They befriended the Nazis.
(c) They watched those around them die.
(d) They suffered least.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the job of the Sonderkommandos?

2. Which of the following did Levi think is the worst crime of the Nazis?

3. What happens to Alberto?

4. Why should survivors' stories be read critically?

5. What does Levi contend about survivors' memories?

(see the answer key)

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