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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) When they would be sent to the gas chambers.
(c) How much they had eaten.
(d) Each other's lifespans.

2. How is humor characterized in camp life?
(a) Black humor is the most common kind of humor in camp.
(b) Prisoners use humor as a weapon in self-preservation.
(c) Humor is rarely used.
(d) The SS offices, and occassionally the Capos, are the only people in camp who use humor.

3. What characterizes the second phase of a prisoner's mental state?
(a) Depression.
(b) Suprise at finding the beauty in camp life.
(c) Grief.
(d) Apathy in the face of the horrors of camp life.

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

5. What kind of complex does the author write prisoners suffered from?
(a) A Persecution complex.
(b) An Inferiority complex.
(c) A Napoleon complex.
(d) A Marytyr complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Were all foremen harsh and cruel?

2. Why was the author not bothered by sitting near lice-infested human corpses?

3. What possession does the author of this book try to keep after arriving to the concentration camp?

4. What kind of outbreak affected the prisoners at the author's camp?

5. Who is this book most concerned with?

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