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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Shame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Indebted.
(c) Discomfort.
(d) Gratefulness.

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

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

4. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"
(a) Defense lawyers.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Victims' families.
(d) They claim it on their own.

5. What did Louis Darquier de Pellepoix do after he was caught?
(a) He blamed the authoritative nature of the Nazi party.
(b) He blamed Eichmann and Hoss for his crimes.
(c) He admitted all of the crimes that he committed during the war.
(d) He denied his part in deportations and gas chambers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Levi choose to do with the object he finds?

2. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?

3. What were the Sonderkommandos taught?

4. What does Levi think about oppressors?

5. When did Levi's friend Alberto stop being critical of those who consoled themselves with illusions?

(see the answer key)

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