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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 Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Belonging.

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

3. What does the author attempt to describe in this essay?
(a) The ways in which living in a concentration camp made prisoners stronger.
(b) The reason that the Nazis rose to power.
(c) The last days of the war.
(d) The experience of living in a concentration camp.

4. What position does the author volunteer for?
(a) He volunteers to clean up sewage so that a friend can be spared that job.
(b) He volunteers to work as a doctor.
(c) He volunteers to work as a personal secretary so that he can work inside.
(d) He volunteers to move rocks so that he can leave the camp occasionally.

5. What did Frankl think when he saw a group of convicts pass by?
(a) That they had earned their misery while the prisoners had not.
(b) That life was unfair because he was in a position below them.
(c) That they deserved worse punishment.
(d) That they enjoyed more well-regulated, happy, secure lives than the prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author decide not to try to escape the concentration camp?

2. What were the wishes and desires of prisoners?

3. How is humor characterized in camp life?

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

5. How does Frankl describe the "size" of human suffering?

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