Characters
Events
Setting
Dialogue
Primo Levi
100
The main character. We see his life through his eyes.
Who is Primo Levi
100
What is the intake process of the prisoners?
What is stripping naked and giving clothes and rags to wear
100
Where are the prisoners arriving? "We looked at each other without a word. It was all incomprehensible and mad, but one thing we had understood. This was the metamorphosis that awaited us. Tomorrow we would be like them."
What is approaching the camp
100
Who is Levi talking about/to? "I want to ask him many things, but my German vocabulary is very limited. "Are you a Jew?" I ask him. "Yes, a Polish Jew." "How long have you been in the Lager?" "Three years," and he lifts up three fingers. He must have been a child when he entered, I think with horror; on the other hand this means that at least some manage to live here."
Who is Schlome.
100
What year was Primo deported to Auschwitz
What is 1944
200
The first person Primo met in the camp. He has been at the camp for 3 years.
Who is Schlome
200
What happen to Levi’s other stuff once he got to the camp ?
What is Levi things got sent back to Germany
200
Where is Primo in this situation? "So I adapt myself to lie like this, forced into immobility, half-lying on the wooden edge. Nevertheless I am so tired and stunned that I, too, soon fall asleep, and I seem to be sleeping on the tracks of a railroad."
What is on his bed.
200
Who might Levi be talking about/to? "He is only twenty-two, two years younger than me, but none of us Italians have shown an equal capacity for adaptation. Alberto entered the Lager with his head high, and lives in here unscathed and uncorrupted. He understood before any of us that this life is war; he permitted himself no indulgences, he lost no time complaining and commiserating with himself and with others, but entered the battle from the beginning."
Who is Alberto
200
When was Primo born?
What is July 31st, 1919
300
He is Primo’s best friend. He has been close with Primo for his entire imprisonment.
Who is Alberto
300
What is one of the main things about the inscription Levi sees at Auschwitz I?
What is he will have to work to gain freedom
300
What is Levi talking about in this excerpt? "Around us, everything is hostile. Above us the malevolent clouds chase each other to separate us from the sun; on all sides the squalor of the toiling steel closes in on us. We have never seen its boundaries, but we feel all around us the evil presence of the barbed wire that separates us from the world."
What is surviving.
300
Who's name fits in the blank spaces? "I wander aimlessly around the washroom when I suddenly see_________, my friend aged almost fifty, with nude torso, scrub his neck and shoulders with little success (he has no soap) but great energy. ________ sees me and greets me, and without preamble asks me severely why I do not wash. Why should I wash? Would I be better off than I am? Would I please someone more?"
Who is Steinlauf
300
Before he was captured from the Fascist Militia, what was Primo’s profession?
What is a chemist
400
"he carries six bricks at a time balanced on his head; he knows how to make a spoon from a piece of tin, and a knife from a scrap of steel"
Who is Elias
400
What events in life can change a person’s mind from desiring wealth and possessions to the basic needs of love, respect, and freedom?
What is from be locked in a place where you can't see the outside world
400
What might Levi be talking about in this quote from the book? "Today the sun rose bright and clear for the first time from the horizon of mud. It is a Polish sun, cold, white and distant, and only warms the skin, but when it dissolved the last mists a murmur ran through our colorless numbers, and when even I felt its lukewarmth through my clothes I understood how men can worship the sun."
What is a good day.
400
Who might Levi be talking about/to "This was the first disillusion: he was a "green triangle," a professional delinquent, the Arbeitsdienst had not thought is necessary for the Kapo of the Chemical Kommando to be a chemist. It was pointless wasting one's breath asking him questions; he would not have replied, or else he would have replied with kicks and shouts. On the other hand, his not very robust appearance."
Who is Alex
400
Who were the people who helped change Levi's life in the Lager?
Who is Schepschel, Alfred L.,Elias, and Henri Lindzin
500
A civilian Italian worker who takes extreme risks to smuggle Primo some extra soup. He also delivers a post-card to Primo's family for him.
Who is Lorenzo
500
Why was Levi sent to the infirmary?
What is Levi was injured
500
What feeling are the prisoners containing in this quote? "in a washroom during the winter, as soon as the squads return from work. Here scores of prisoners driven desperate by hunger prowl around, with lips half-open and eyes gleaming,"
What is despair.
500
"He has seen the death of tens of thousands of those like him, beginning with the pogrom which had driven him from his village in Galicia. He had a wife and five children and a prosperous business as a saddler, but for a long time now he has grown accustomed to thinking of himself only as a sack which needs periodic refilling."
Who is Schepschel.
500
Name a book (Other than If this is a man) that Primo Levi wrote during his career.
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