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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT something that survivors have a particularly hard time listening to people complain about?
(a) Heat.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Cold.

2. How often did Monowitz receive new prisoners?
(a) Never.
(b) Hourly.
(c) Frequently.
(d) Rarely.

3. Why does Levi consider most survivors to be of the "privileged" class?
(a) They gained recognition after the lagers were liberated.
(b) They were generally the wealthiest prisoners.
(c) They were lucky enough to live through a horrible situation.
(d) They generally received more food than the people who died.

4. When did Levi's friend Alberto stop being critical of those who consoled themselves with illusions?
(a) After his father was sent to the gas chamber.
(b) After his liberation from Auschwitz.
(c) After his decision that is a healthier frame of mind.
(d) After Levi persuaded him to change his mind.

5. Which subset of prisoners does Levi think make the best observers?
(a) Intellectuals.
(b) Political prisoners.
(c) Kapos.
(d) Italian Jews.

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

7. What happens to Alberto?
(a) He was liberated.
(b) He was sent to a different camp.
(c) He disappeared.
(d) He escaped.

8. How did most prisoners arrive at Auschwitz?
(a) By bus.
(b) By train.
(c) On foot.
(d) By car.

9. Which is the best description of Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) He was a German official and the messiah.
(b) He was a dictator and an good administrator.
(c) He ws a prisoner and a good singer.
(d) He was a benevolent leader and a father.

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

11. Monowitz was part of which camp?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Buchenwald.

12. Who was Hans Biebow in relation to Chaim Rumkowski?
(a) His bunkmate.
(b) His superior officer.
(c) His trading partner.
(d) His best friend.

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

14. In what year did the tide of World War II change?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1939.

15. Why did Levi know some German?
(a) His German grandfather spoke it to him.
(b) German is similar to Italian.
(c) He learned it through his work as a chemist.
(d) He learned it as a student.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Levi speak after the war?

2. What were Kapos?

3. What did Levi use to pay for German lessons?

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

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

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