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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. Why should survivors' stories be read critically?
(a) Each story is individual and lacks overall perspective.
(b) Each story tells the same information about the war.
(c) Survivors like to tell lies about their experiences.
(d) Survivors have a bad grasp of the German language.

2. Which of the following did Levi think is the worst crime of the Nazis?
(a) Causing people to lose faith.
(b) Shifting guilt to the victims.
(c) Killing millions of Jews.
(d) Giving prisoners too little food.

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

4. What was the job of the Sonderkommandos?
(a) To clean the barracks.
(b) To run the gas chambers and the ovens.
(c) To give out the food rations.
(d) To assign jobs to the new arrivals.

5. Why did Germans need collaborators?
(a) They liked to give others some power.
(b) They wanted to feel liked.
(c) There were not enough Germans to keep order.
(d) They liked to give orders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the other prisoners think about the Sonderkommandos?

3. Why does Levi feel the Germans suffered "willed ignorance" about the camps?

4. What is Primo Levi's profession?

5. What does Levi think about power?

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