Survival in Auschwitz Quizzes

Survival in Auschwitz Quiz on "Author's Preface" and Chapters 1-3

1 When was Primo Levi deported to Auschwitz?
1941

1944

1943

1945
2 Why does Levi call it his "good fortune" to be deported to Auschwitz when he was?
Levi is simply being sarcastic.

The German government had decided to extend the average lifespan of prisoners.

The Nazis gaslit the prisoners into thinking they were fortunate to be in the camps.

Levi never said this.
3 Why did Primo Levi write the book?
To formulate new accusations.

To reveal the Nazis' horrific actions to the world.

To furnish documentation for a "quiet study of certain aspects of the human mind."

To relieve his mother's suffering.
4 What does the poem at the beginning of the book ask the reader to do?
Be kind to neighbors.

Ignore the atrocities being committed.

Join the Allied forces.

Consider the dehumanized men and women imprisoned in the concentration camps.
5 Where is Primo Levi from?
Spain

Poland

Germany

Italy
6 What do the imprisoned mothers do as they prepare for the journey to the concentration camps?
Play with their children in a carefree manner.

Sit despondently.

Prepare food, wash their children, and pack the luggage.

Cry and lament.
7 Describe the train journey from Italy to Auschwitz.
Wonderful, delicious food, comfortable accommodations.

Extreme abuse and starvation.

Unremarkable except for the beautiful landscape.

Uncomfortable, cold, extreme thirst, blows given by SS men.
8 What happens at the platform when the train arrives?
Families are allowed to stay together.

The Italian Jews are separated into different lines according to age, gender, and health.

Everyone is immediately executed.

Everyone departs freely with their luggage.
9 Who is Emilia, and why did she die?
Levi's mother who dies because everyone in the line she was sent to went straight to the gas chambers.

A three-year-old child who dies because the Germans believed in the necessity of killing the children of Jews.

A woman who Levi had hoped to marry who dies because she resists the Nazi operation.

A woman engaged to marry Renzo who dies because they refuse to be separated.
10 What happens to the men upon arrival at the camp?
They are sent to the gas chambers.

They immediately begin slave labor.

They take a shower.

They are stripped naked and shaved.
11 Where are Levi and his fellow prisoners located?
Warsaw concentration camp

Breitenau concentration camp

Birkenau, beside the gas chambers

Monowitz, near Auschwitz, at a work-camp known as Buna
12 What phrase does Levi use to describe the offence being committed?
Dante's Inferno

The demolition of a man

The desert of our lives

A hellish test
13 What word is used to describe the prisoners?
Worm

Degenerate

Häftling

Blockältester
14 Describe an important operation that initiates prisoners into Auschwitz.
An identification number is tattooed onto each prisoner's arms.

Each prisoner is publicly beaten upon arrival.

The prisoners have to fight one another to the death.

Nothing occurs to initiate the prisoners.
15 Finish this quote: "Death begins with the___"
work

shoes

food

clothes
16 Who commands each Kommando?
The Kapo

A Jew who has betrayed his people

An English or Polish POW

Important Nazi generals
17 Do the prisoners ever have rest days?
Yes, every Saturday

Yes, every other Sunday

No

Yes, every Sunday
18 What does Levi define as the logical way to deal with what is before the prisoners?
To understand that they will never see their homes and families again.

To be certain that salvation will come.

To resign themselves to the evidence that their fate is beyond knowledge.

To be aware that the end is certainly near.
19 Why do the Italians stop meeting every other Sunday?
They have to work instead.

It is too depressing to witness their dwindling numbers.

They don't want to be seen together.

There is no time to meet.
20 What does Levi mention concerning communication in the camp?
People only talk to those who speak their respective language.

The confusion of languages is a normal part of life.

Everyone uses sign language.

Everyone speaks German.
21 What does Levi equate with money?
Thread

Buttons

Shoes

Bread
22 What do the messages in the washroom encourage?
Lack of personal care

Hygiene

Loyalty to the SS

Hatred of Jews
23 What does Levi state about the practice of washing oneself?
It is both pointless and important to wash oneself.

It takes a lot of energy to wash oneself.

Washing oneself is a way to remind oneself that they are human.

Washing oneself is a reminder of despair because of how pointless it is.
24 What point does Steinlauf make to Levi about washing?
Cleaning oneself is done in homage to Prussian discipline.

Steinlauf says nothing.

They must try to maintain a clean appearance so as to heighten their stature.

Because the Lager was a great machine to reduce the prisoners to beasts, they must not become beasts.
25 What power does Steinlauf state that the prisoners still have?
The power to speak with God.

The power of morality.

The power to refuse their consent.

The power to fight back physically.