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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Intellectual in Auschwitz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chaim Rumkowski consider himself to be?
(a) A businessman.
(b) The messiah.
(c) A rabbi.
(d) The doctor.

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

3. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?
(a) Talk is a veil over existential silence.
(b) People's messages are understood.
(c) Talk is an antidote to negative silence.
(d) People can and should talk.

4. During the war, what was used as mattress ticking?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Dirty rags.
(c) Human hair.
(d) Straw.

5. When was Primo Levi brought to Auschwitz?
(a) In the first months of the war.
(b) Near the end of the war.
(c) Before Germany invaded Italy.
(d) In the middle of the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Amery think survive in higher numbers?

2. What does survival depend upon?

3. Why did Levi know some German?

4. When people first heard of Nazi death camps, what was the reaction?

5. According to Levi, how did Amery go against his nature?

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