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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. Which subset of prisoners does Levi think make the best observers?
(a) Political prisoners.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Kapos.
(d) Italian Jews.

2. Who orated in the style of Hitler?
(a) Alberto.
(b) Eichmann.
(c) Chaim Rumkowski.
(d) Primo Levi.

3. What function did ghettos serve?
(a) They cut off communication between people.
(b) They kept offensive books away from people.
(c) They gave Jews a safe place to live.
(d) They assisted people in learning new languages.

4. What was Hitler at the time of his death?
(a) A war hero.
(b) A fearless leader.
(c) A deluded gambler.
(d) A frustrated civilian.

5. What does Levi believe about judging the Sonderkommandos?
(a) He feels they should be judged leniently.
(b) He feels judgment must be suspended.
(c) He feels they should be judged harshly.
(d) He feels judgment must be handed down by the courts.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nazi party was elected to power in which country?

2. What did Louis Darquier de Pellepoix do after he was caught?

3. What was the camp's second language?

4. Why did Levi know some German?

5. How did Nazi commanders protect the consciousness of people they assign to do dirty work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the theory of "incommunicability."

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

5. Briefly describe the life of Chaim Rumkowski.

6. Why does Levi think prisoners are beyond neuroses?

7. What happeneds to people who become sonderkommandos?

8. How do people react to having limited communication?

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

10. According to Levi, why do oppressors suppress memories?

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