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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. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?
(a) One group was sent to the men's quarters, while the other group was sent to women's quarters.
(b) One group was used to work. The other group was killed.
(c) One group was sent on another train, while the group the author was part of remained at the same camp.
(d) One group was destined to work inside. The other group was destined for heavy labor.

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

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 does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?
(a) Railway workers.
(b) The Capo and the suicidal.
(c) Prison doctors.
(d) The prisoners who worked in the kitchen.

5. 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) The Nazi leadership, and the way in which they made decisions regarding the fate of the concentration camps.
(d) Hitler himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a free fight among the prisoners?

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

3. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

4. Where does the author of the book travel in a "prison car" with small peepholes?

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?

(see the answer key)

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