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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what did prisoners speculate?
(a) What type of person was most heroic.
(b) What type of death would be least painful.
(c) When Hitler would die.
(d) The date of liberation.

2. At the end of the book, to what does Levi chalk up the period of Nazi rule?
(a) An epilogue in history books.
(b) An unprincipled political game.
(c) A cohesion of multiple factors.
(d) A torrent of racial intolerance.

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

4. With whom does Hety S. put Levi in touch?
(a) Jean Amery.
(b) Chaim Rumkowski.
(c) Alberto.
(d) Albert Speer.

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

6. Most of the letters that Levi received were about what topic?
(a) Political theories about the rise of the Nazi party.
(b) Whether or not Germans can be understood.
(c) Whether or not Germans should be blamed.
(d) Personal experiences in the lagers.

7. According to Levi, which of these factors did NOT play a role in the Nazi violence?
(a) Intolerance.
(b) Lust for power.
(c) Defense of principle.
(d) Political fanaticism.

8. Which of the following is NOT a way in which Levi thinks that the crimes were punished?
(a) German allies were estranged.
(b) Leaders in the Third Reich were killed.
(c) Leaders in the Third Reich committed suicide.
(d) Germany was partitioned.

9. What did Levi do when he was tempted to pray?
(a) He became a believer.
(b) He prayed.
(c) He refused to blaspheme.
(d) He cried.

10. At which camp is there NO rebellion?
(a) Birkenau.
(b) Sobibor.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Auschwitz.

11. According to Levi, which of the following was NOT a reason that Germans followed Hitler?
(a) His military strength.
(b) His beautiful words.
(c) Mental laziness.
(d) National pride.

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

13. What did train convoys from Italy carry?
(a) Fewer passengers than from Eastern Europe.
(b) Supplies in addition to passengers.
(c) Wealthy passengers with lots of luggage.
(d) More passengers than from Eastern Europe.

14. What daily ritual was emblematic of life in the lager?
(a) Sweeping.
(b) Roll call.
(c) Bathing.
(d) Eye exams.

15. According to Levi, what lessened the perpetrators' guilt?
(a) Feeling invincible.
(b) Offering compassion.
(c) Degrading the victims.
(d) Pitying the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Levi tempted to pray?

2. Levi corresponds with Hety S. of Wiesbaden for approximately how many years?

3. What does Levi consider the duty of historians?

4. Who became Jean Amery?

5. Who employed Levi?

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