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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. As Frankl and his fellow prisoners watched fellow prisoners, what could they calculate?
(a) How badly they had been beaten.
(b) How much they had eaten.
(c) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.
(d) Each other's lifespans.

2. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?
(a) Death threatens a servant who flees to Teheran, but Teheran is where Death plans to meet him.
(b) A man dies in Teheran, but faces his death bravely, and this inspires the theory of logotherapy.
(c) It is a story of a man who dies in Teheran, because of his own cruelty to his neighbors.
(d) It is the story of a tragic death by fire in Teheran, which shows that all of us must die in the end.

3. How were normal reactions hastened among the workers charged with removing sewage?
(a) The officers in charge would "reward" those who finished their work quickly by forcing them to clean raw sewage, one of the worst jobs at the concentration camp.
(b) The officers used loud noises to shock the prisoners as they removed the sewage.
(c) The Capo would threaten them if they did not quickly stomp in the sewage to clean the latrines and remove sewage.
(d) The Capo would strike them if they attempted to wipe off the sewage that splashed on their faces.

4. How did Frankl earn the favor of "The Murderous Capo"?
(a) He applauded him.
(b) He held his hand.
(c) He spoke to him of hope.
(d) He gave him psychological advice.

5. What is the "delusion of reprieve"?
(a) When a psychiatric patient splits their own personality in two, in order to avoid dealing with trauma.
(b) The idea that many psychiatric patients have, that someone else is responsible for their own well-being.
(c) This is when a person deludes themself into believing that the worst is over, and the best is yet to come.
(d) The idea that a condemned person has the illusion just before death that he will be saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?

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

3. What does Frankl believe explains the lack of sexual urge in the concentration camp?

4. Why were camp inmates frightened of decisions?

5. What happens when the author was outside of the camp fences burying dead bodies?

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