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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. Where does the author claim that most of the extermination took place?
(a) In small camps.
(b) In the big, famous camps.
(c) In camps in northern Europe.
(d) During mass transport, on the road to the camps.

2. What job did Frankl do in freezing temperatures out of doors?
(a) He worked in an open-air hospital.
(b) He worked on the roof of the prison director's building.
(c) He worked on icky train tracks.
(d) He worked in the sewage pits.

3. What is the principal question that the author tries to address?
(a) "How was everyday life in a prison camp reflected in the mind of the average person?"
(b) "Why did the atrocities in the concentration camps go on for so long?"
(c) "Why did so many people follow such an extreme leader?"
(d) "What early childhood trauma may have prompted Hitler to his terrible ideas?"

4. Frankl was sent to another camp after his stay in Auschwitz. Why were the prisoners there pleased?
(a) There were no gas chambers.
(b) The food was good.
(c) There was no snow.
(d) The SS was not as cruel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl argue happened in camp to "sensitive people used to a rich intellectual life"?

2. When the author arrived to the concentration camp, the group of arrivals were separated into two lines. What happened to these two groups?

3. What happens in the story of Death in Teheran?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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