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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 prisoners experience beauty?
(a) They discussed beautiful art that they had seen outside the camp.
(b) Their lives were too focused on primitive needs to worry about such things.
(c) The SS officers made light of their lack of sensibility when surrounded by beauty in nature.
(d) They experienced it intensely.

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

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

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

5. Who is this book most concerned with?
(a) The Nazi leadership, and the way in which they made decisions regarding the fate of the concentration camps.
(b) The Capos -- "prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges."
(c) The "great army of unknown and unrecorded victims."
(d) Hitler himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Frankl was scheduled to be transported to another camp, what did the chief doctor do?

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

3. What did the prisoners think of indoor work?

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

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

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