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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How often did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Never.
(b) Hourly.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Frequently.

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

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

7. According to Levi, who may judge collaborators?
(a) Historians.
(b) Those who did not become collaborators.
(c) Other collaborators.
(d) Everyone.

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

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

10. What happens to Alberto?
(a) He was sent to a different camp.
(b) He was liberated.
(c) He disappeared.
(d) He escaped.

11. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?
(a) They distrust survivors' memories of events.
(b) They have finished studying World War II.
(c) They still have much to learn about camp life.
(d) They only want to learn about first-arrival impressions.

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

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

14. Why does Levi consider most survivors to be of the "privileged" class?
(a) They were lucky enough to live through a horrible situation.
(b) They were generally the wealthiest prisoners.
(c) They gained recognition after the lagers were liberated.
(d) They generally received more food than the people who died.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?

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

3. Auschwitz was located in which country?

4. What does survival depend upon?

5. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?

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