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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (through page 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?
(a) Shock.
(b) Stress.
(c) Fear.
(d) Undernourishment.

3. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Buchenwald.
(d) Sachsenhausen.

4. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?
(a) Violence.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Apathy.

5. What symptom characterizes the first mental phase of prisoners in concentration camps?
(a) Shock.
(b) Grief.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?

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

4. What was the "most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life"?

5. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?

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