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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the Sonderkommandos taught?
(a) To believe the German propaganda.
(b) That fellow Jews are subhuman.
(c) To treat fellow Jews with respect.
(d) That they are privileged.

3. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?
(a) At the work sites.
(b) At the train arrival station.
(c) In the ghettos.
(d) In the infirmary.

4. What did all prisoners do during their internment?
(a) Lie.
(b) Steal.
(c) Commit murder.
(d) Punish others.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nationality is Primo Levi?

3. What does Levi think of the theory of incommunicability?

4. What was the place of the Sonderkommandos within the Lager?

5. At what point did Hitler begin denying the truth?

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