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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?
(a) He believes that there is too much space outside the concentration camp, and they will not make it to the next populated town.
(b) He decides that he would rather stay with his patients.
(c) He fears that the route out of the camp is too visible.
(d) He decides that his recent good mood would make the escape too obvious, and asks his friend to escape on his own.

2. Who narrates this story?
(a) A concentration camp survivor.
(b) A woman who claims to have grown up with Hitler.
(c) A woman who hid Jews in her home to save them from the concentration camps.
(d) A former Nazi.

3. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?
(a) It can never be as great as it was for prisoners in Auschwitz.
(b) It is relative.
(c) It is only perceptible to the individual.
(d) It is impossible to gauge.

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

5. How did Frankl respond to an SS officer who called him a pig, and asked him what his profession was?
(a) He argued that it was none of his business, and then tried to hit him.
(b) He told him he was a doctor who did charitable work.
(c) He said he had been a psychiatrist, and understood perfectly what his issues were.
(d) He refused to speak.

6. Why did the Capo in the author's working party do him favors?
(a) The author aided him in finding the strongest men to work on his team.
(b) The author listened to his marital problems and offered psychotherapeutic advice.
(c) The author was his doctor before he was put in prison.
(d) This Capo favored him because they were from the same hometown.

7. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?
(a) The food was good.
(b) There were no gas chambers.
(c) The SS was not as cruel.
(d) There was no snow.

8. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
(a) Depression.
(b) Apathy in the face of the horrors of camp life.
(c) Suprise at finding the beauty in camp life.
(d) Grief.

9. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) How much they had eaten.
(b) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.
(c) Each other's lifespans.
(d) How badly they had been beaten.

10. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?
(a) At the direction of the SS authorities, prisoners were beaten.
(b) When they were injurred and unable to work.
(c) When they spoke before being spoken to.
(d) At the slightest provocation or for no reason at all.

11. What kind of event does the author attend with the camp's chief officer?
(a) A private meal.
(b) A seance.
(c) A meeting where SS officials discuss punishment.
(d) A medical presentation on Measles.

12. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?
(a) They are images of men from the Capo who had been demoted, and one of them had been in a position to be cruel to the author before this demotion.
(b) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(c) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(d) They are images of sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.

13. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?
(a) Measles.
(b) A strong seasonal flu.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

14. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?
(a) An unidentified man who directs the prisoners to form two separate lines.
(b) The director of the camp.
(c) Cruel SS guards with dogs.
(d) Cheerful prisoners speaking different languages.

15. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?
(a) They believed that fate was one's master.
(b) They were frightened of everything.
(c) They were scared of bringing attention to themselves.
(d) They worried about the consequences of excercising their own judgement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sickness affected most of the prisoners in 1945?

2. What did Frankl visit with the camp's chief doctor?

3. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?

4. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?

5. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

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