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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. What does the author claim hurts most about the physical blows from SS officers?
(a) The way in which the SS officers did not speak to the prisoners before beating them.
(b) The way that the officers hit prisoners where they were already injured.
(c) The use of sticks to hit the prisoners.
(d) The unfairness of the blows.

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

3. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?
(a) As a doctor, he knew that if he were infected with lice, he could easily treat himself.
(b) He was emotionally distanced from death, and saw the humor in the situation.
(c) He was able, near these bodies, to spend a few minutes alone.
(d) He was able to distract himself thinking of his love for his wife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author describe smoking in the concentration camps?

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

3. What did Frankl learn happened at Auschwitz after he left?

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

5. Why does the author, after leaving camp, upon seeing an image of prisoners lying on their bunks, argue that these aren't horrible images?

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