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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Shame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT a common justification that Nazis used when confessing?
(a) Being brought up in a racist environment.
(b) Following the orders of a superior.
(c) Believing in Hitler's ideas.
(d) Living in an environment of fear.

2. When was Primo Levi brought to Auschwitz?
(a) In the first months of the war.
(b) In the middle of the war.
(c) Near the end of the war.
(d) Before Germany invaded Italy.

3. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?
(a) Indebted.
(b) Gratefulness.
(c) Discomfort.
(d) Ambivalence.

4. Which best describes historians forty years after liberation?
(a) They still have much to learn about camp life.
(b) They distrust survivors' memories of events.
(c) They have finished studying World War II.
(d) They only want to learn about first-arrival impressions.

5. What do victims tend to do when they remember?
(a) Remember every detail exactly as it happened.
(b) Assign blame to themselves.
(c) Skim over painful episodes.
(d) Focus on the worst situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Levi contend about survivors' memories?

2. What nationality is Primo Levi?

3. What was the place of the Sonderkommandos within the Lager?

4. After liberation, why did survivors feel diminished as human beings?

5. What does Levi think about power?

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