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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did new prisoners bring with them?
(a) News.
(b) Books.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Food.

3. What happens to Alberto?
(a) He was liberated.
(b) He disappeared.
(c) He was sent to a different camp.
(d) He escaped.

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

5. Which is the best description of Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) He was a benevolent leader and a father.
(b) He was a German official and the messiah.
(c) He ws a prisoner and a good singer.
(d) He was a dictator and an good administrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should survivors' stories be read critically?

2. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"

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

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

5. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?

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