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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Levi know some German?
(a) German is similar to Italian.
(b) His German grandfather spoke it to him.
(c) He learned it as a student.
(d) He learned it through his work as a chemist.

2. 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.

3. When people first heard of Nazi death camps, what was the reaction?
(a) Pride.
(b) Anguish.
(c) Incredulity.
(d) Surprise.

4. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?
(a) They saw their families die.
(b) They were guilty of the charges against them.
(c) They witnessed great horrors.
(d) They lived at an animal level.

5. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) President of the Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) A German officer.
(c) President of the Lodz Ghetto.
(d) A sonderkommando.

6. In what year did the tide of World War II change?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1940.

7. When did Levi's friend Alberto stop being critical of those who consoled themselves with illusions?
(a) After his father was sent to the gas chamber.
(b) After his decision that is a healthier frame of mind.
(c) After his liberation from Auschwitz.
(d) After Levi persuaded him to change his mind.

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

9. Why does Levi feel he is able to write on behalf of survivors?
(a) He has overall perspective.
(b) He is good at psychoanalysis.
(c) He saw death close up.
(d) He was given their consent.

10. What does Levi consider the vast shame?
(a) That there was evil in the lagers.
(b) That the German people tried not to see.
(c) That a nuclear apocalypse will occur.
(d) That the world ignored what was happening.

11. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?
(a) As traitors.
(b) With suspicion.
(c) As non-Jews.
(d) With fear.

12. What did Louis Darquier de Pellepoix do after he was caught?
(a) He denied his part in deportations and gas chambers.
(b) He blamed the authoritative nature of the Nazi party.
(c) He blamed Eichmann and Hoss for his crimes.
(d) He admitted all of the crimes that he committed during the war.

13. What happened to Levi's tattoo after the war?
(a) He had color added so it looked pretty.
(b) He had it removed.
(c) He kept it.
(d) He got another tattoo on top of it.

14. What language does Levi speak after the war?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Lager German.
(c) Polish.
(d) German.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Levi consider most survivors to be of the "privileged" class?

2. What was Hitler at the time of his death?

3. Monowitz was part of which camp?

4. Why does Levi feel the Germans suffered "willed ignorance" about the camps?

5. The Nazi party was elected to power in which country?

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