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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 Levi consider all SS and all Germans in general to be?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Responsible.
(c) Spiteful.
(d) Stereotypical.

2. Who did the Nazis conduct medical experiments on?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Officers.
(d) Mice.

3. From which camp did Mala Zimetbaum try to escape?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Birkenau.
(d) Treblinka.

4. According to Levi, what made young Germans hate Jews?
(a) Nazi authority.
(b) Fear.
(c) Nazi propaganda.
(d) Stereotypes.

5. In what year is Survival in Auschwitz first published?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were put in each train car arriving from Italy?

2. What is the core of what lager survivors have to say?

3. When was Levi tempted to pray?

4. What was the title of Hitler's book?

5. Who was best able to learn the lager's first lesson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Summarize Dr. T.H.'s letter to Levi.

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

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

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

6. Who were counted at roll calls?

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

8. Describe Jean Amery's life before he arrived in Auschwitz.

9. What was special about Mala Zimetbaum?

10. Why were prisoners ordered to take their valuables with them on their journey to the lager?

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