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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. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
(a) One group was sent on another train, while the group the author was part of remained at the same camp.
(b) One group was sent to the men's quarters, while the other group was sent to women's quarters.
(c) One group was destined to work inside. The other group was destined for heavy labor.
(d) One group was used to work. The other group was killed.

2. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(b) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(c) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.
(d) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.

3. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?
(a) The unfairness of the blows.
(b) The way in which the SS officers did not speak to the prisoners before beating them.
(c) The way that the officers hit prisoners where they were already injured.
(d) The use of sticks to hit the prisoners.

4. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(b) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.
(c) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.
(d) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.

5. Who narrates this story?
(a) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.
(b) A concentration camp survivor.
(c) A former Nazi.
(d) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?

2. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?

3. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?

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

5. How is humor characterized in camp life?

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