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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 is the principal question that the author tries to address?
(a) "Why did so many people follow such an extreme leader?"
(b) "How was everyday life in a prison camp reflected in the mind of the average person?"
(c) "Why did the atrocities in the concentration camps go on for so long?"
(d) "What early childhood trauma may have prompted Hitler to his terrible ideas?"

2. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?
(a) Grief.
(b) Depression.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Shock.

3. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?
(a) The author writes that suicide was most common when it was snowing.
(b) He notes there was a high suicide rate among the Capos.
(c) The author notes that nearly all of the prisoners entertained these thoughts.
(d) The author claims these thoughts were particularly common among men.

4. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?
(a) He offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
(b) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.
(c) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.
(d) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.

5. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?
(a) Cruel SS guards with dogs.
(b) An unidentified man who directs the prisoners to form two separate lines.
(c) The director of the camp.
(d) Cheerful prisoners speaking different languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the Capos?

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

3. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?

4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?

5. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?

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