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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Levi, why did prisoners not commit suicide?
(a) There were no means by which to do so in the lager.
(b) Their whole existence wa wrapped up in survival.
(c) Religious people think suicide is an affront to God.
(d) The prisoners were hopeful that they would be freed any day.

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

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

5. 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.

6. What function did ghettos serve?
(a) They gave Jews a safe place to live.
(b) They kept offensive books away from people.
(c) They assisted people in learning new languages.
(d) They cut off communication between people.

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Levi feel the Germans suffered "willed ignorance" about the camps?
(a) They were happy to be getting supplies during war time.
(b) Slave labor was an entrenched part of German society.
(c) They knew that liberation would be coming soon.
(d) The prisoners in the camps were all hardened criminals.

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

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

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

15. Why did Levi's Kapo disappear?
(a) He escaped the camp.
(b) A prisoner switched his number on a list.
(c) He collaborated with the Nazis.
(d) A prisoner assigned him to another barracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Levi think about power?

2. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"

3. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?

4. What was the camp's second language?

5. What is Primo Levi's profession?

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