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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 job do those who greet the prisoners as they arrive to the concentration camp do?
(a) They find prisoners who are willing to lie about their identities.
(b) They separate the sick from the fit.
(c) They take charge of the belongings of the new arrivals.
(d) They decide which women are not strong enough to work.

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

3. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(b) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.
(c) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(d) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.

4. 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.

5. During the time that the author spent in concentration camps, what does he describe as his main work?
(a) Preparing bodies for burial.
(b) Cleaning the guards' living and work quarters.
(c) Working in the kitchen.
(d) Digging and laying tracks for railway lines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim helped to detach prisoner's minds from their surroundings?

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

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

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

5. What does the author think about during difficult moments?

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