Quiz (38 - 76) Directions: Answer the following quiz questions in as much detail as you can. I have picked only very significant events from the novel, ones that I expect you to have remembered if you read the book. Your job is to prove to me that you have, indeed, read the novel, so that we may move on to discuss it in greater depth.

1. What process do the prisoners go through as they enter the camp?
1. After being stripped of all their personal belongings and freedoms, prisoners are given a specific number for which they are referred to from then on. Because all of these prisoners are individuals who have passed selection, they now have just two paths; work, or experimentation. Whichever they are given, they have no say. Experimentation at the hands of the infamous Josef Mengele, though not explained too in depth, often result in the death of those being experimented on. On the other hand, if they’re forced to do hard labor, they are often given a specific job based on their skill level. Life in the camp is essentially a repeating cycle of living with poor conditions, in terms of food and respect. Occasionally, as was stated within the story, there is another stage of selection, though the book describes this to have only occurred just once.
2. What is one thing that remains the same among those living at Birkenau even though treatment harshens as time goes on?
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   Despite the increasingly worsening treatment at Birkenau, prisoners at Birkenau have mostly kept their faith in their religion, though, it is sometimes questioned, like how Elie Wiesel had questioned where their God was, when a child was hanged. Even the German SS officers showed some hesitance, and had gone to show some small bit of humanity. Still, Jews specifically kept their religion, even with all of the questionable, horrible acts they witness throughout their stay at the camp.
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.
1. Even though prisoners at Auschwitz already went through the selection phase, Wiesel described another selection in the story. This very uncertainty in whether or not one will live definitely placed some weight on their minds as they would either see their names written down or not by Mengele, who helped to select whom they would kill based off their bodily state/effort. Also, in the camp, prisoners are at the hand of their Kapos/superiors. Should they ever make a mistake or simply not appeal to what their superiors want them to do, their fate becomes uncertain. With crueler, psychotic Kapos like Idek, their fate is sometimes sealed with reasonless beatings.
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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   One of the first figures with some authority that showed Eliezer and company kindness was a young Polish man, whom Wiesel remarked to as being “The first human words” at the camp that he heard. He would later be removed for being too humane. The rest of the guards and figures of authority that Eliezer face (especially the Kapo, Idek) are all cruel in contrast with the Polish man they met. For example, Idek was somewhat psychotic and cruel; beating Eliezer for catching him with a Polish girl. Franek, the foreman, also beat Eliezer’s father for not giving up his crown.