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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 think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?
(a) That they had earned their misery while the prisoners had not.
(b) That life was unfair because he was in a position below them.
(c) That they enjoyed more well-regulated, happy, secure lives than the prisoners.
(d) That they deserved worse punishment.

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

3. For Frankl, what makes life meaningful and purposeful?
(a) Spiritual freedom.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope for the future.

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

5. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?
(a) Working in the early hours, in the cold.
(b) Waking up at three in the morning to work.
(c) Skipping lunch.
(d) Dinner time, hungry and dealing with small, flavorless food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did fellow prisoners respond when someone stole potatoes?

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

3. Who greets the prisoners upon their arrival at the concentration camp?

4. What did Frankl speak to his fellow prisoners about when their morale was low?

5. What does Frankl write was the most depressing feature of life in a concentration camp?

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