This chapter introduces what is called "chemical examination." Primo Levi volunteers to be a worker in the Chemical Kommando, because it is much less strenuous work. What I thought from that is how human tends to find the way to live the best life under the given circumstances. Primo Levi, just like any other person in the world, seems to seek a way out of this death camp.
"And now I also know that i can save myself if I become a Specialist, and that I
will become a Specialist if I pass a chemistry exmination."
However, after all the experiences he has gone through in Auschwitz, Primo Levi does not accept this examination quite readily. His disbeliefs and memories of torture make him doubt anything he sees and hears. "But have the Germans such great need of chemists? Or is it a new trick, a new machine 'pour faire chier les Juifs'? Are they aware of the grotesque and absurd test asked of us, of us who are nolonger alive, of us who have already gone half-crazy in the dreary expectation of nothing?" Only by the hope of surviving this dreadful place, Primo Levi decided to go through the chemical examination, because he knows one simple truth: "No Sacred Face will help thee here... it's not A Serchio bathing-party..."
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