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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, who may judge collaborators?
(a) Other collaborators.
(b) Those who did not become collaborators.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Historians.

2. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?
(a) They witnessed great horrors.
(b) They were guilty of the charges against them.
(c) They saw their families die.
(d) They lived at an animal level.

3. Who confronts Levi after liberation?
(a) The SS.
(b) His kapo.
(c) Daniele.
(d) Alberto.

4. Which characterized the German spoken in the Lager?
(a) It was overly simplistic.
(b) It was a harsh version of the language.
(c) It was a refined version of the language.
(d) It was a dialect that has some Yiddish mixed in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Auschwitz was located in which country?

2. Who was Hans Biebow in relation to Chaim Rumkowski?

3. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?

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

5. After lberation, how did Levi feel about God?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Levi consider to be his mission and why?

3. Explain the theory of "incommunicability."

4. How does Levi shock Germans after the war?

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

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

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

8. Why were political prisoners envied?

9. What is "willed ignorance?"

10. How does a totalitarian state control its citizens?

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