Quiz questions

1. What process do the prisoners go through as they enter the camp?
2. What is one thing that remains the same among those living at Birkenau even though treatment harshens as time goes on?
3. Uncertainty or the unknown is one of the greatest burdens on the mental state of the prisoners.  Describe at least two of the uncertainties that they face.
4. The various guards that Eliezer and his father meet do not treat the prisoners the same way.  Contrast their treatment at the hands of different guards?

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1. They go through seeing bodies being thrown everywhere, kids being burned, people being separated from there families. They go through pain and it feels like to them that they have nothing worth for their lives. Dreams are crushed,valuable items are taken and sold to other people. Germans hit jews with batons bats and most people in the area they see are shot and killed.

2. What remains the same among those that live in Birkenau is the fact that they all are knowing they are either selected to a labor camp or a chamber to either your handicap, old, or really young, and where your strong wealthy and healthy to work for your freedom.

3.  They are uncertain because they don't really know what is going on until they are separated by their families and their friends. They are really uncertain that they have to face how they need to keep their bowls and how they have to experience "roll calls" and "selections" to where your going to be placed.

4. Different guards treat prisoners differently because some prisoners have the ability to work and some just do not.  You are treated differently because of they way your body posture was. Just like the father where he was beaten because of the fact that he wasn't moving at a certain pace as the other prisoners. Others were treated with a little more kindness because they had more worthiness others were "killed on the spot".