Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Man's Search for Meaning Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

2. 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 sick prisoners who could stay in bed all day.
(b) They were images of people who had been spared the gas chambers.
(c) They are images of men that he knew, and all of them survived.
(d) 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.

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

4. Who does the author claim entertained thoughts of suicide in the concentration camp?
(a) The author writes that suicide was most common when it was snowing.
(b) The author notes that nearly all of the prisoners entertained these thoughts.
(c) He notes there was a high suicide rate among the Capos.
(d) The author claims these thoughts were particularly common among men.

5. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?
(a) A delegate from the Red Cross arrives to liberate the prisoners.
(b) An SS officer discovers his plot to escape, and comes out to beat him.
(c) He falls and breaks his leg.
(d) An earthquake destroys much of the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

2. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?

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

4. How were prisoners identified?

5. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

(see the answer key)

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