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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does survival depend upon?
(a) Putting oneself first.
(b) Collaborating with the SS.
(c) Feeling heroic.
(d) Helping others.
2. How did Nazi commanders protect the consciousness of people they assign to do dirty work?
(a) They plied them with alcohol.
(b) They provided psychological counseling.
(c) They promised that they will go to heaven.
(d) They rewarded them with prizes.
3. Who orated in the style of Hitler?
(a) Alberto.
(b) Primo Levi.
(c) Eichmann.
(d) Chaim Rumkowski.
4. What nationality is Primo Levi?
(a) Polish.
(b) French.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.
5. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?
(a) With suspicion.
(b) With fear.
(c) As traitors.
(d) As non-Jews.
6. What happened to Levi's tattoo after the war?
(a) He had color added so it looked pretty.
(b) He got another tattoo on top of it.
(c) He kept it.
(d) He had it removed.
7. Which of the following was NOT a common justification that Nazis used when confessing?
(a) Living in an environment of fear.
(b) Following the orders of a superior.
(c) Being brought up in a racist environment.
(d) Believing in Hitler's ideas.
8. How did most prisoners arrive at Auschwitz?
(a) By train.
(b) On foot.
(c) By bus.
(d) By car.
9. What does Levi believe about judging the Sonderkommandos?
(a) He feels judgment must be suspended.
(b) He feels judgment must be handed down by the courts.
(c) He feels they should be judged leniently.
(d) He feels they should be judged harshly.
10. According to Levi, why can't the "privileged" be objective?
(a) They were unaccostemed to manual labor.
(b) They befriended the Nazis.
(c) They watched those around them die.
(d) They suffered least.
11. At what point did Hitler begin denying the truth?
(a) After Stalingrad.
(b) After the invasion of France.
(c) After the invasion of Poland.
(d) During liberation of the lagers.
12. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?
(a) Only survivors.
(b) High level Nazi officials.
(c) Only oppressors.
(d) Survivors and oppressors.
13. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"
(a) They claim it on their own.
(b) Defense lawyers.
(c) Victims' families.
(d) Hitler.
14. What did new prisoners bring with them?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Books.
(c) Food.
(d) News.
15. How often did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Hourly.
(b) Never.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Frequently.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Levi think about oppressors?
2. What was the place of the Sonderkommandos within the Lager?
3. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?
4. How does Levi characterize the shame and guilt that survivors feel?
5. Levi's knowledge of the German language was __________ in Auschwitz.
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