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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. During winter, how many prisoners died?
2. What was Elias Lindzin's number?
3. In Chapter 13, how long had Chajim been in Lager?
4. Who was sleeping when Jean started coming down into the petrol tank?
5. In Chapter 16, what would prisoners receive if they didn't emerge wet from the shower?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Jean and Levi discuss on the way to get the ration in Chapter 11?
2. How did Jean make himself indispensable to Alex in Chapter 11?
3. How was the camp evacuated in Chapter 17?
4. In Chapter 12, what news did the prisoners hear and how did it make them feel?
5. In Chapter 14, what did Levi believe would be positive happiness?
6. Why did Levi compare the camp to an experiment?
7. Why was it better to be beaten than to work to exhaustion?
8. In Chapter 16, why did Alberto and Levi need a zinc-pot, and where did they get one from?
9. In Chapter 12, when and from where did convoys begin to arrive?
10. At the beginning of Chapter 15, how many remain from Levi's convoy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 2, Levi and the other new prisoners had a lot to learn. What were some of the things the prisoners had to learn? What made learning difficult for Levi and the others? How were lessons learned? What were some of the most important lessons and why?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 8, Levi believed that the lines between good and evil and just and unjust were blurred. What was the main example that Levi described to prove his point? Why didn't he believe that morals could survive in the camp?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 9, Levi described the camp as an experiment. How did the conditions and the people interred in the camp make Levi think of an experiment? Why did he believe the camp embodied controls more stringent than even the most serious experimenter might impose? What did the experiment prove or disprove?
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