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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many times does Levi meet Hety S. of Wiesbaden?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

3. What does Levi think of the theory that mankind cannot do without conflict?
(a) He strongly agrees with it.
(b) He ignores it.
(c) He disagrees with it.
(d) He somewhat agrees with it.

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

5. Why does Levi want Survival in Auschwitz to be published in German?
(a) To understand why the masses do not stop the Nazis.
(b) To seek revenge against those who oppressed him.
(c) To get back at the Nazis for making him less of an intellectual.
(d) To pay tribute to the few Germans who did help Jews.

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

7. Why were the tattoos gratuitous?
(a) The tattoos could not be seen under clothing.
(b) The uniforms bore prisoners' numbers.
(c) The prisoners had memorized their numbers.
(d) The prisoners had no names.

8. From which camp did Mala Zimetbaum try to escape?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Birkenau.
(d) Bergen-Belsen.

9. What does W.A. from Wurtemberg write about?
(a) The help the book brings to Germans.
(b) Not knowing about Auschwitz despite living nearby.
(c) A feeling of shame on behalf of other Germans.
(d) How people cannot hide behind others.

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

11. According to Levi, which of the following is NOT a reason survivors tell their stories?
(a) To achieve a sense of relief.
(b) To bear witness.
(c) They want to make others feel bad.
(d) Others want to hear their stories.

12. What do Amery and Levi agree about cultivated people?
(a) They made friends with other prisoners more easily.
(b) They had a harder time at manual labor.
(c) They had an easier time learning German.
(d) They adjusted to life in the lager more quickly.

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

14. According to Levi, what were people who were denied freedom in a place where freedom was considered a right expected to do?
(a) Write or speak out.
(b) Escape or rebel.
(c) Protest and rally.
(d) Accept and survive.

15. What is Germany now considered?
(a) A totalitarian regime.
(b) A terrorist safe haven.
(c) A third world country.
(d) A respectable country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saved Levi from the gas chambers?

2. Who employed Levi?

3. What did Levi do when he was tempted to pray?

4. Who is amazed that Levi's writing is not filled with hatred?

5. If an escapee was found, what happened?

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