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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Levi corresponds with Hety S. of Wiesbaden for approximately how many years?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. How many times does Levi meet Hety S. of Wiesbaden?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. According to Levi, what made young Germans hate Jews?
(a) Nazi authority.
(b) Fear.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Nazi propaganda.

4. With whom does Hety S. put Levi in touch?
(a) Albert Speer.
(b) Alberto.
(c) Jean Amery.
(d) Chaim Rumkowski.

5. In what year was Amery arrested by the Gestapo?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.

6. What do Amery and Levi agree about cultivated people?
(a) They adjusted to life in the lager more quickly.
(b) They made friends with other prisoners more easily.
(c) They had an easier time learning German.
(d) They had a harder time at manual labor.

7. What does Hety claim about Albert Speer after her interview with him?
(a) He is proud of his actions.
(b) He is upset by talking.
(c) He is seeking revenge.
(d) He is haunted by Auschwitz.

8. Where was Hans Mayer born?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Lodz.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Vienna.

9. Which was NOT a reason that people joined the SS?
(a) They were fearful of punishment.
(b) They had been reared badly.
(c) They were paid very highly.
(d) They wanted a good career.

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

11. About what did prisoners speculate?
(a) When Hitler would die.
(b) What type of person was most heroic.
(c) What type of death would be least painful.
(d) The date of liberation.

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

13. Who were most traumatized by relieving themselves in public?
(a) Children.
(b) Old people.
(c) Young adults.
(d) Women.

14. Which of the following is NOT a way in which Levi thinks that the crimes were punished?
(a) Germany was partitioned.
(b) German allies were estranged.
(c) Leaders in the Third Reich committed suicide.
(d) Leaders in the Third Reich were killed.

15. How do young people refer to the SS?
(a) As evildoers.
(b) As guardians.
(c) As liberators.
(d) As torturers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Levi, why were the sonderkommandos at Birkenau able to stage a rebellion?

2. Which was NOT a reason that Jews have no where to run?

3. According to Levi, which of the following was NOT a reason that Germans followed Hitler?

4. The violence the Nazis inflicted did all of the following except:

5. At the beginning of the war, what were the lagers?

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