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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 a unique experience central to World War II.
(d) The lagers were an inventive way for Germany to produce war time supplies.

2. How did Germans often coerce prisoners into being collaborators?
(a) By giving them new shoes.
(b) By giving them more soup.
(c) By appealing to their love of power.
(d) By ordering them at gunpoint.

3. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?
(a) As non-Jews.
(b) As traitors.
(c) With fear.
(d) With suspicion.

4. What did Levi use to pay for German lessons?
(a) His blanket.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His soup ration.
(d) His bread ration.

5. 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 only want to learn about first-arrival impressions.
(d) They still have much to learn about camp life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Germans need collaborators?

2. With which statement about Eichmann and Hoss would Levi agree?

3. According to Levi, what creates a "convenient reality?"

4. The Third Reich did all of the following to stay in power except:

5. What does Levi think most survivors feel at Liberation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do survivors simplify the past by using stark good vs. evil distinctions?

2. Why were political prisoners envied?

3. What was the classic militiamen defense that Eichmann and Hoss used?

4. Comment on how a prisoner's moral yardstick changed during his internment.

5. What does Levi consider to be the extreme case of collaboration?

6. What is Primo Levi's theory about judging any people associated with the lagers?

7. What did the Nazis hope as the tide of war turned in 1942?

8. What does Levi think of the theory of "incommunicability"?

9. How does Levi shock Germans after the war?

10. Why does Primo Levi write about his experiences?

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