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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. Who orated in the style of Hitler?
(a) Chaim Rumkowski.
(b) Eichmann.
(c) Alberto.
(d) Primo Levi.

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

3. The Nazi party was elected to power in which country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Poland.
(d) Italy.

4. Who was best able to learn the lager's first lesson?
(a) Jean Amery and Primo Levi.
(b) The intellectuals.
(c) Sonderkommandos.
(d) The uncultivated.

5. Which characterized the German spoken in the Lager?
(a) It was a refined version of the language.
(b) It was overly simplistic.
(c) It was a dialect that has some Yiddish mixed in.
(d) It was a harsh version of the language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does survival depend upon?

2. What function did ghettos serve?

3. Who confronts Levi after liberation?

4. When was Levi tempted to pray?

5. What was one aspect in which life in the lager that was a caricature of army life?

(see the answer key)

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