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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Useless Violence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the theory of incommunicability from the 1970s state?
(a) Talk is a veil over existential silence.
(b) Talk is an antidote to negative silence.
(c) People's messages are understood.
(d) People can and should talk.

2. How did prisoners who speak Yiddish look upon Italian Jews who did not speak it?
(a) As non-Jews.
(b) With fear.
(c) As traitors.
(d) With suspicion.

3. What must align at roll calls?
(a) The tally of people.
(b) The uniforms of the prisoners.
(c) The lines the prisoners stand in.
(d) The number of officers.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason survivors feel guilty?
(a) They failed to resist.
(b) They failed to help others.
(c) They did not do enough to oppose the system.
(d) They should have tried harder to escape into the forest.

5. What daily ritual was emblematic of life in the lager?
(a) Eye exams.
(b) Sweeping.
(c) Roll call.
(d) Bathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Eichmann and Hoss born?

2. Who was particularly offended by being tattooed?

3. According to Levi, what can cause victims' memories to drift?

4. What does survival depend upon?

5. What were Kapos?

(see the answer key)

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