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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was best able to learn the lager's first lesson?
(a) Sonderkommandos.
(b) The uncultivated.
(c) Jean Amery and Primo Levi.
(d) The intellectuals.

2. Which was NOT a reason that people joined the SS?
(a) They were fearful of punishment.
(b) They had been reared badly.
(c) They were paid very highly.
(d) They wanted a good career.

3. Who did the Nazis conduct medical experiments on?
(a) Officers.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Mice.

4. Who is amazed that Levi's writing is not filled with hatred?
(a) M.S. from Frankfurt.
(b) I.J. from Stuttgard.
(c) W.A. from Wurtemberg.
(d) Dr. T.H. of Hamburg.

5. In what year is Survival in Auschwitz first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1950.

6. According to Levi, how did Amery go against his nature?
(a) He hit a Polish criminal.
(b) He made his bed.
(c) He did manual labor.
(d) He returned Levi's blow.

7. What does Levi think is the stereotype of the SS?
(a) Average humans.
(b) Good people.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Power hungry.

8. What does Amery write about?
(a) His friendship with Primo Levi in Auschwitz.
(b) His work in the resistance movement.
(c) The pros and cons of being an intellectual in Auschwitz.
(d) Why the Nazi officials deserve to die.

9. Which is something that prisoners did receive provisions for?
(a) Water.
(b) Uniforms.
(c) Bedding.
(d) Food.

10. Where was Hans Mayer born?
(a) Lodz.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Berlin.

11. The student from Bavaria, H.L., first writes to Levi in what year?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1957.

12. What happened to corpses?
(a) They were returned to family members.
(b) They were allowed to decompose.
(c) They were turned into industrial products.
(d) They were given a proper burial.

13. What does H.L. complain about in her letter?
(a) Her school ignores recent history.
(b) Germans are punished unfairly.
(c) She is made to feel shameful.
(d) Her teacher considers Hitler's actions just.

14. What does Levi think about the experiences of lager survivors?
(a) They are important for people in third world countries.
(b) They grow less relevant with each passing generation.
(c) They mirror that of people in Germany today.
(d) They are a part of history that can be ignored.

15. What does Levi consider the duty of historians?
(a) To explain the feeling of extreme hunger.
(b) To tell the story of survivors.
(c) To describe a state of constant fear.
(d) To examine stereotypes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement is true of the rebellions?

2. In what year was Amery arrested by the Gestapo?

3. What does Levi call the daily rituals of the lager?

4. Which of the following is NOT a way in which Levi thinks that the crimes were punished?

5. According to Levi, which of these factors did NOT play a role in the Nazi violence?

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