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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Across Europe.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) The United States.

2. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Fear.
(c) Shame.
(d) Fraud.

3. 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.

4. What was the camp's second language?
(a) German.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) Italian.
(d) Polish.

5. What were Kapos?
(a) German guards with a low rank.
(b) Recent arrivals to the lagers.
(c) Translators for the Germans.
(d) Chiefs of squads or barracks.

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

7. What does Levi think most survivors feel at Liberation?
(a) Unconditional happiness.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Unexplicable anger.

8. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?
(a) In the ghettos.
(b) At the work sites.
(c) In the infirmary.
(d) At the train arrival station.

9. What was Hitler at the time of his death?
(a) A war hero.
(b) A deluded gambler.
(c) A frustrated civilian.
(d) A fearless leader.

10. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"
(a) Victims' families.
(b) They claim it on their own.
(c) Defense lawyers.
(d) Hitler.

11. When were Eichmann and Hoss born?
(a) Before the Third Reich came to power.
(b) During the height of the Third Reich's power.
(c) When Hitler was the leader of Germany.
(d) After Hitler killed himself.

12. Which of the following is NOT a reason survivors feel guilty?
(a) They did not do enough to oppose the system.
(b) They should have tried harder to escape into the forest.
(c) They failed to resist.
(d) They failed to help others.

13. After his return, what did Levi's religious friend think?
(a) Levi should leave Europe.
(b) Levi's survival was due to luck.
(c) Levi's survival was an act of God.
(d) Levi survived because of his selfishness.

14. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?
(a) Only survivors.
(b) Only oppressors.
(c) High level Nazi officials.
(d) Survivors and oppressors.

15. According to Levi, what happens when a story is often retold?
(a) It is a universal truth.
(b) It becomes set in stone.
(c) It will become boring.
(d) It can be adorned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?

2. After the war, what was a major source of reconstructing what happened?

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

4. Levi's knowledge of the German language was __________ in Auschwitz.

5. Which of the following is NOT something that survivors have a particularly hard time listening to people complain about?

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