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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. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.
(b) In the big, famous camps.
(c) In camps in northern Europe.
(d) In small camps.

2. Why does the author, himself a concentration camp survivor, write, "We know: the best of us did not return"?
(a) The author feels that the most defiant prisoners, those who stood up to the SS officers, were immediately killed.
(b) The author claims that this is the case because he deeply misses his family members who died at Auschwitz.
(c) This quote is taken from a paragraph in which the author writes that the humblest prisoners were the earliest to be killed by the SS officers.
(d) The author believes this because the prisoners kept themselves alive by brutally and dishonestly fighting for their existence.

3. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?
(a) His mother's home.
(b) His old home.
(c) A beautiful lake.
(d) A beach.

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

5. What does Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
(a) Hope.
(b) Faith.
(c) Belonging.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?

3. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?

4. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?

5. Under what conditions does Frankl describe the SS beating prisoners?

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