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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 45).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
(a) Digging and laying tracks for railway lines.
(b) Working in the kitchen.
(c) Cleaning the guards' living and work quarters.
(d) Preparing bodies for burial.

2. How were prisoners identified?
(a) By number.
(b) By the room they were assigned.
(c) By the name of the place they lived before being captured.
(d) By name.

3. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?
(a) Prison doctors.
(b) Railway workers.
(c) The prisoners who worked in the kitchen.
(d) The Capo and the suicidal.

4. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?
(a) They expect mentally healthy people to have balanced reactions to such situations.
(b) They expect strong reactions.
(c) They expect an abnormal reaction according to the person's degree of normality.
(d) They expect that a normal person in an abnormal situation will demonstrate severe stress.

5. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Sachsenhausen.
(d) Buchenwald.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

2. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

3. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?

4. How were the Capos chosen?

5. What are "premium coupons"?

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