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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 possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?
(a) A wedding ring.
(b) A sturdy pair of boots.
(c) A gold tooth.
(d) A scientific manuscript.
2. What does the author think about during difficult moments?
(a) His favorite recipe.
(b) His love for his wife.
(c) His religion.
(d) His favorite poem.
3. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?
(a) Intimate relationships with fellow prisoners.
(b) A cold curiosity about what conditions they could survive.
(c) A card game that they invented in their quarters that they looked forward to during the day.
(d) An intense fantasy life.
4. Who is this book most concerned with?
(a) The Capos -- "prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges."
(b) The "great army of unknown and unrecorded victims."
(c) Hitler himself.
(d) The Nazi leadership, and the way in which they made decisions regarding the fate of the concentration camps.
5. 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 writes that suicide was most common when it was snowing.
(c) He notes there was a high suicide rate among the Capos.
(d) The author claims these thoughts were particularly common among men.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
2. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
3. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
4. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?
5. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
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