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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Intellectual in Auschwitz.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Nazi commanders protect the consciousness of people they assign to do dirty work?
(a) They plied them with alcohol.
(b) They promised that they will go to heaven.
(c) They rewarded them with prizes.
(d) They provided psychological counseling.

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

3. Why were the tattoos gratuitous?
(a) The uniforms bore prisoners' numbers.
(b) The prisoners had memorized their numbers.
(c) The tattoos could not be seen under clothing.
(d) The prisoners had no names.

4. Why did Levi's Kapo disappear?
(a) A prisoner switched his number on a list.
(b) He escaped the camp.
(c) A prisoner assigned him to another barracks.
(d) He collaborated with the Nazis.

5. What saved Levi from the gas chambers?
(a) A case of mistaken identity.
(b) A compassionate SS guard.
(c) His strength as a laborer.
(d) His training as a chemist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Levi, what did survivors feel about their newly re-acquired freedom?

2. Which of the following was NOT a common justification that Nazis used when confessing?

3. What was the job of the Sonderkommandos?

4. What was Hitler at the time of his death?

5. What predominant emotion did survivors feel at Liberation as depicted in literature and in the movies?

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