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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. Who was best able to learn the lager's first lesson?
(a) The intellectuals.
(b) The uncultivated.
(c) Sonderkommandos.
(d) Jean Amery and Primo Levi.

2. Who tells criminals to claim "I don't remember?"
(a) They claim it on their own.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Victims' families.
(d) Defense lawyers.

3. Levi discussed the issue of memory through the character of Count Ugolino by which author?
(a) Weisel.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Frued.

4. What does Amery write about?
(a) His work in the resistance movement.
(b) The pros and cons of being an intellectual in Auschwitz.
(c) His friendship with Primo Levi in Auschwitz.
(d) Why the Nazi officials deserve to die.

5. During the war, what was used as mattress ticking?
(a) Dirty rags.
(b) Human hair.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Straw.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his return, what did Levi's religious friend think?

2. According to Levi, who may judge collaborators?

3. What did new prisoners bring with them?

4. What do Amery and Levi agree about cultivated people?

5. What does Levi think about oppressors?

(see the answer key)

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