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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Levi, why were the sonderkommandos at Birkenau able to stage a rebellion?
(a) They had time to plan.
(b) They had efficient leaders.
(c) They were well fed.
(d) They understood their oppressors.

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

3. What did Mala Zimetbaum do that frustrated the Nazis?
(a) She taunted the Nazi guards.
(b) She refused to work.
(c) She killed herself on the gallows.
(d) She escaped successfully.

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

5. During World War I, which trait characterized the relationship between antagonists?
(a) Mutual respect.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Mutual admiration.

6. How did most Germans feel after Hitler is defeated in the war?
(a) Angry.
(b) Sad.
(c) Proud.
(d) Remorseful.

7. With whom did Mala Zimetbaum try to escape?
(a) Levi.
(b) Amery.
(c) Edek.
(d) An Italian Jew.

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

9. Who was Elias?
(a) An scientist.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A dwarf.
(d) A kapo.

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

11. Who were most traumatized by relieving themselves in public?
(a) Children.
(b) Old people.
(c) Women.
(d) Young adults.

12. Levi corresponds with Hety S. of Wiesbaden for approximately how many years?
(a) 30.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 15.

13. What happened to Germans who were found helping Jews escape?
(a) They were unable to get jobs.
(b) They were considered prisoners of war.
(c) They risked being sent to the lagers.
(d) They suffered at the hands of the Gestapo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the tattoos gratuitous?

2. What must align at roll calls?

3. Which is something that prisoners did receive provisions for?

4. How many times did Levi fight back against a fellow prisoner?

5. Where was Hans Mayer born?

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