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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 does H.L. complain about in her letter?
(a) Her teacher considers Hitler's actions just.
(b) She is made to feel shameful.
(c) Germans are punished unfairly.
(d) Her school ignores recent history.

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

3. At which camp is there NO rebellion?
(a) Sobibor.
(b) Birkenau.
(c) Treblinka.
(d) Auschwitz.

4. Who does Amery think survive in higher numbers?
(a) Believers.
(b) Political prisoners.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Laborers.

5. During World War I, which trait characterized the relationship between antagonists?
(a) Mutual admiration.
(b) Fear.
(c) Mutual respect.
(d) Hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does W.A. from Wurtemberg write about?

2. Who was particularly offended by being tattooed?

3. What saved Levi from the gas chambers?

4. How did most Germans feel after Hitler is defeated in the war?

5. Why were the tattoos gratuitous?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Levi's response to Dr. T.H. of Hamburg.

2. List some examples of the violence that stems from World War II.

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

4. Levi considers the violence perpetrated by the Nazis to have been useless except for one thing. What was it?

5. Describe the overall feeling of the majority of letters Levi receives.

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

7. What was special about Mala Zimetbaum?

8. Why does Levi agree with Amery that believers had an easier time in the lager?

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

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

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