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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. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(b) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(c) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(d) An intense fantasy life.

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

3. How did prisoners experience beauty?
(a) Their lives were too focused on primitive needs to worry about such things.
(b) They discussed beautiful art that they had seen outside the camp.
(c) The SS officers made light of their lack of sensibility when surrounded by beauty in nature.
(d) They experienced it intensely.

4. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
(a) Two separate phases.
(b) Ten distinct phases.
(c) Three distinct phases.
(d) Four phases.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?

2. How were prisoners identified?

3. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?

4. Who narrates this story?

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?

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