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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 does the friend of the author, who "smuggled himself" into the author's hut, suggest that the prisoners try to stay alive?
(a) He suggests that they never speak around SS officers.
(b) He recommends that they sleep every moment that they get a chance, to be energetic in their work.
(c) He offers them tips to get more food at meal time.
(d) He recommends they shave, to look younger, and that they avoid showing discomfort to appear more fit.

2. What was the main characteristic of the second phase of the prisoner's mental life?
(a) Anger.
(b) Love.
(c) Violence.
(d) Apathy.

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

4. What did prisoners often discuss when they had a free moment?
(a) The past.
(b) Food.
(c) Fear of death.
(d) Escape.

5. Why did Frankl have to leave his shoes unlaced?
(a) He was given shoes that were too small.
(b) He suffered from edema.
(c) He injured his ankle and had a hidden makeshift cast.
(d) His socks, though warm, were the wrong size.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did prisoners try to get to the center of the lines that workers formed in the morning?

2. What concentration camp does the author describe traveling to?

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

4. How do psychiatrists expect people to react in abnormal situations?

5. What did the prison car that Frankl took pass?

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