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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. What predominant emotion did survivors feel at Liberation as depicted in literature and in the movies?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Panic.
(d) Joy.

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

3. Why did Germans need collaborators?
(a) They liked to give others some power.
(b) There were not enough Germans to keep order.
(c) They liked to give orders.
(d) They wanted to feel liked.

4. Where did the SS recruit Sonderkommandos?
(a) In the ghettos.
(b) At the work sites.
(c) In the infirmary.
(d) At the train arrival station.

5. After the war, what was a major source of reconstructing what happened?
(a) The evidence of Nazi officials.
(b) The stories of liberating soldiers.
(c) The stories of survivors.
(d) The ruins of labor camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Primo Levi?

2. What was the camp's second language?

3. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?

4. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?

5. What was Hitler at the time of his death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the concept of "convenient truth."

2. Explain the theory of "incommunicability."

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

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

5. Explain the nature of human memory.

6. What is "willed ignorance?"

7. Why did Alberto change his mind about consoling oneself with illusions?

8. What happeneds to people who become sonderkommandos?

9. How do people react to having limited communication?

10. Briefly describe the Nazi death camp system.

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