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

2. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?
(a) Most of the men wished for intimacy.
(b) Food and comfort.
(c) The strongest desire was often for more water than was readily available.
(d) Intellectual stimulation.

3. What are "premium coupons"?
(a) These came from the construction firm that hired workers through the prison, and could be used to buy days off work.
(b) Raffle tickets given to the SS guards to award them things previously owned by the prisoners.
(c) These were certificates from the SS guards, and were awarded to prisoners who arrived to work before the morning bell rang.
(d) These came from the construction firm that hired the workers from the prison, and could be exchanged for cigarettes.

4. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?
(a) Before bed, when men and women competed for a place on a soft bed.
(b) Before there was a shipment of the feeble and inable to work, when prisoners struggled not to be transported to another site.
(c) Before work began daily, when prisoners competed to be assigned the first jobs, as these were the least physically demanding.
(d) Before meal time, when prisoners competed for one of the limited number of two-course meals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?

2. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

3. How were prisoners identified?

4. How does the author describe the Capos?

5. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?

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