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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 group of people was most prone to try escaping?
(a) Newcomers.
(b) Political prisoners.
(c) Jews.
(d) Long-term prisoners.

2. What was one aspect in which life in the lager that was a caricature of army life?
(a) Following orders.
(b) Eating soup rations.
(c) Making bunk beds.
(d) Carrying weapons.

3. Who was best able to learn the lager's first lesson?
(a) The intellectuals.
(b) The uncultivated.
(c) Jean Amery and Primo Levi.
(d) Sonderkommandos.

4. What does Levi think about the experiences of lager survivors?
(a) They are important for people in third world countries.
(b) They are a part of history that can be ignored.
(c) They mirror that of people in Germany today.
(d) They grow less relevant with each passing generation.

5. When was Levi tempted to pray?
(a) At liberation.
(b) Arriving at Auschwitz.
(c) Standing before the Commission.
(d) Every morning upon waking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Levi corresponds with Hety S. of Wiesbaden for approximately how many years?

2. According to Levi, why were the sonderkommandos at Birkenau able to stage a rebellion?

3. What did Mala Zimetbaum do that frustrated the Nazis?

4. What did train convoys from Italy carry?

5. What do Amery and Levi agree about cultivated people?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Stereotypes, Levi discusses stereotypes in regard to three aspects of survivor behavior. What are they?

2. Explain why violence is endemic in the Third World.

3. What happened to intellectuals who did manage to flee Germany "beforehand?"

4. Who does Levi consider responsible for the horrors of the lagers?

5. Why does Levi want Survival in Auschwitz to be published in German?

6. What happened in the roll call when a prisoner was missing?

7. Why is Levi interested in corresponding with H.L., the student from Bavaria?

8. What is the last stereotype that the author tries to dissuade?

9. Why do the stories of survivors become less important to passing generations?

10. What did Levi learn through the study of chemistry?

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