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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. Who narrates this story?
(a) A concentration camp survivor.
(b) A former Nazi.
(c) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.
(d) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.
2. What job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.
(b) They separate the sick from the fit.
(c) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.
(d) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
3. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?
(a) The author notes that nearly all of the prisoners entertained these thoughts.
(b) The author claims these thoughts were particularly common among men.
(c) The author writes that suicide was most common when it was snowing.
(d) He notes there was a high suicide rate among the Capos.
4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The last days of the war.
(b) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(c) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(d) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
5. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(b) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.
(c) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(d) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?
2. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
3. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
4. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
5. What are "premium coupons"?
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