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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Communicating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Levi think most survivors feel at Liberation?
(a) Exhaustion.
(b) Unexplicable anger.
(c) Unconditional happiness.
(d) Anxiety.

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

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

4. What did the other prisoners think about the Sonderkommandos?
(a) They admired their strength of character.
(b) They thought they were courageous for doing the dirty work.
(c) They deplored them for working for the oppressors.
(d) They wondered what it must be like to be debased.

5. When people first heard of Nazi death camps, what was the reaction?
(a) Incredulity.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Pride.
(d) Anguish.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?

2. Which subset of prisoners does Levi think make the best observers?

3. Why does Levi feel he is able to write on behalf of survivors?

4. When were Eichmann and Hoss born?

5. What was Auschwitz-Monowitz?

(see the answer key)

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