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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT something that survivors have a particularly hard time listening to people complain about?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Fatigue.
(c) Heat.
(d) Cold.

3. What does Levi think about oppressors?
(a) They feel better once they confess to their crimes.
(b) They lie blatantly about their criminal actions.
(c) They tend to blame the victims for their bad actions.
(d) They rework the past to make themselves feel less guilty.

4. What nationality is Primo Levi?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Polish.
(d) German.

5. According to Levi, which statement best describes the Lagers?
(a) The lagers were an inventive way for Germany to produce war time supplies.
(b) The lagers were the most horrible atrocity from any war ever.
(c) The lagers were something that has occured in many wars.
(d) The lagers were a unique experience central to World War II.

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

7. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?
(a) They suffered from memories of what they did during the war.
(b) They had no choice in becoming Nazi officials.
(c) They should not have been punished for their actions.
(d) They joined the Nazi party opportunistically.

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

9. What predominant emotion did survivors feel at Liberation as depicted in literature and in the movies?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Panic.
(d) Joy.

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

11. What does survival depend upon?
(a) Helping others.
(b) Feeling heroic.
(c) Collaborating with the SS.
(d) Putting oneself first.

12. How did Germans often coerce prisoners into being collaborators?
(a) By ordering them at gunpoint.
(b) By giving them more soup.
(c) By appealing to their love of power.
(d) By giving them new shoes.

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

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

15. Why did Germans need collaborators?
(a) They liked to give orders.
(b) They liked to give others some power.
(c) There were not enough Germans to keep order.
(d) They wanted to feel liked.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was Primo Levi brought to Auschwitz?

4. What were Kapos?

5. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?

(see the answer keys)

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