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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the author describe the Capos?
(a) "Many Capos fared better in camp than they had in their entire lives."
(b) "The Capos lived in fear, knowing that they could be stripped of their privileges at any moment."
(c) "The Capos were miserable, knowing that they had betrayed their people."
(d) "The Capos enjoyed life in the prisons, and took pleasure in the humiliation of others."

3. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In the big, famous camps.
(b) In small camps.
(c) In camps in northern Europe.
(d) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.

4. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(b) The experience of living in a concentration camp.
(c) The last days of the war.
(d) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.

5. How many mental phases does the author claim that concentration camp prisoners go through?
(a) Three distinct phases.
(b) Ten distinct phases.
(c) Four phases.
(d) Two separate phases.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?

2. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

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

4. How does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?

5. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?

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