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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 115).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
(a) "Morality is measured in small moments."
(b) "By respecting nature, we learn to respect ourselves."
(c) "No one has the right to do wrong."
(d) "The way that you behave when nobody is watching speaks loudly of you."

2. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?
(a) The past.
(b) Escape.
(c) Food.
(d) Fear of death.

3. How important is the idea of individual choice for Frankl?
(a) Frankl believes that man is an accidental product of his environment.
(b) Frankl understands individual choice as a myth, since the concentration camps show that we react profoundly by stress.
(c) Frankl considers this unimportant and inconsequential to happiness.
(d) For Frankl, individual choice can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom.

4. In the most difficult moments of our existence, what does Frankl suggest is the salvation of man?
(a) To recall the past.
(b) To look into the future.
(c) To pray.
(d) To consider our favorite things.

5. What were the exceptions to the "cultural hibernation" in camp?
(a) Politics and religion.
(b) Religion and writing.
(c) Art and music.
(d) Writing and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who narrates this story?

2. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?

3. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?

4. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

5. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?

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