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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Letters from Germans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Primo Levi's profession?
(a) Chemist.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Biologist.
(d) Philospher.

2. Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) President of the Lodz Ghetto.
(b) President of the Warsaw Ghetto.
(c) A sonderkommando.
(d) A German officer.

3. Which of the following was NOT a purpose that the lagers serve for the Nazis?
(a) Slave labor.
(b) Extending German control throughout Europe.
(c) Killing inferior races.
(d) Eliminating political adversaries.

4. Who confronts Levi after liberation?
(a) His kapo.
(b) The SS.
(c) Alberto.
(d) Daniele.

5. What happened to corpses?
(a) They were given a proper burial.
(b) They were allowed to decompose.
(c) They were turned into industrial products.
(d) They were returned to family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Levi, who is trapped by memories?

2. How did most prisoners arrive at Auschwitz?

3. When was Primo Levi brought to Auschwitz?

4. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?

5. What was Hitler's intention from the start of the war?

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